Unwrap presents, plant veggies

Discarded wrapping paper on Christmas morning can get pretty insane. This wrapping paper is embedded with veggie seeds, though, so you can bury it and grow food.

A lot of paper gets wasted in the holiday season. Sure, some of it ends up in the recycling bin; some even gets folded and saved for re-use. But a lot ends up in the bin, too.

A UK company seeking funding on Kickstarter has found a novel way to make wrapping paper re-usable: embedding it with vegetable seeds, similar to plantable greeting cards.

Called Eden's Paper, it's constructed of two layers of recycled paper, with one side printed in vegetable-based ink and seeds sandwiched between the layers in rows. The idea is that you plant each 45x70-centimetre sheet flat, and your vegetables will grow in straight lines. There are five to choose from: broccoli, tomato, carrot, onion and chilli.

It's a little on the pricy side — the £5 reward (AU$8.90) is one sheet of wrapping paper (plus £3 shipping) — which might be a little hard to justify for all your presents; but if you have a friend with a green thumb, it might be a thoughtful way to package a gift.

Head on over to the Kickstarter page to check it out.