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Lament all you want, purists, but a pretty significant huge chunk of the gifts exchanged this year won't come in gift wrapped packages. Instead, they'll come in the form of plastic cards that represent credits stored in a database somewhere.

Sure, to the untrained eye, your pile of Christmas goodies may look like a boring stack of envelopes, but you know what it really is: An after Christmas shopping spree waiting to happen. And when you total up all of the gift card-generated shopping bonanzas all across the globe, you get a pretty major shopping footprint -- perhaps even larger than (gasp) Black Friday.

So it stands to reason that if worked to keep your Christmas shopping eco-friendly this year, you might as well do the same with your post-Christmas bonanza. Unfortunately for people who love shopping bags and long checkout lines, that means doing your shopping online.

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