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Less plastic waste

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 This is a little invention I came up with recently because I wanted to find a way of selling cards with no plastic packaging but at the same time keeping it together with the envelope in a manner whereby you can still see the card. Some card manufacturers don't use plastic on their cards however, a great many cards are sold with plastic packaging and although some of the packaging is made of  polypropylene which is recyclable - it is not collected in recycling collections as there is not always a market for using it by Local Authorities. Therefore it is going to be thrown away. So here is my design (after a couple of different prototypes) - It is a strip of paper (which I have printed with my website and details and it is around inch and a half wide and you lay it across the back of the card and matching envelope and then bring around to the front where it comes out at the two diagonal corners and then you can trim it and fold it across on each side securing it with a small do