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eco-friendly packaging

I don’t like Earth Day.

April 22, 2011
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Yes, it’s official: I don’t like Earth Day! And it’s for the same reasons that I don’t like Easter, Valentine’s Day or Thanksgiving either. What a cynic, you say! You may be right, but read more to find out why. Leading up to Earth Day I usually get a ton of spam announcing someone’s Earth [...]

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Mother’s Day Gift Packaging to Generate Sales

March 14, 2011

Mom’s special day is right around the corner and it is time to get creative with special packaging to boost your sales for this important retail occasion. How about mixing some pretty packaging into your store displays: wrapped boxes, bags with coordinating tissue, and gift or gourmet wares in pretty feminine packaging. Then strategically display [...]

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Green Washing at Nashville Wraps?

February 7, 2011
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Can you save 15% on car insurance… Is green washing at Nashville Wraps hard to believe? You betcha! Recently a comment came to my attention that posed an interesting question, basically the comment was “how is it that Nashville Wraps is the “Leader in Eco-Friendly Packaging” but you mail catalogs in a plastic bag?  I [...]

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Spring 2011 Packaging: A Sneak Peek of Green.

December 20, 2010
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Preview our new Spring Collections to be released in January. Made in the USA, they are all part of our Green Way® line of eco-friendly packaging.

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Nashville Wraps Customer Spotlight: Peas for Prosperity

November 24, 2010
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Smart people turn their lemons into lemonade, but this Atlanta entrepreneur-philanthropist turned her lemons into a small business selling black-eyed peas.

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Lead in Reusable Grocery Bags (again).

November 17, 2010
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Cadmium, lead, mercury, and hexavalent chromium are not household names but if you have any of those nice graphic reusable grocery bags, chances are good those dangerous and illegal heavy metals are in your house.

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A green flash in the pan?

November 8, 2010
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Has the economy changed your thinking towards green, eco-friendly packaging and other products? It seems that being green for many industrial suppliers was a just flash in the pan.

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The Perfect Packaging

November 2, 2010
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Nature after all provides us with the perfect package… but so does the good ol’ USA. In fact customers are demanding more and more USA products.

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About Compostable Snack Packaging

October 12, 2010
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In order for packaging to be green it should be reusable. How do you reuse a bag that chips came in? Unless you have some creative idea in mind for it, you (should be able to) toss it into the recycling bin!

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California Cans Plastic Bag Ban

September 20, 2010
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On August 31, 2010, the California State Senate rejected the proposal banning single-use plastic bags. It would have been the first statewide ban on plastic bags in the U.S.

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