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eco-friendly packaging

Why Vegan Baker Anita Shepherd Loves Our Packaging

February 3, 2012

This week we are featuring our customer Anita Shepard, owner of Electric Blue, a Brooklyn, New York baking company. Anita is a chef and food writer for Bon Appetit Magazine and various food blogs. She is also a menu consultant for vegan and gluten-free options and has recently started a cooking video series. We are very [...]

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Spring Packaging Made in the USA

January 6, 2012

Spring has sprung at Nashville Wraps, and we have 5 new Green Way® paper shopping bag designs all made here in the USA. You can see all our Spring Collections online or request our Spring 2012 Catalog.

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Timber Green Woods Makes Sustainable Products a Work of Art

November 25, 2011

Timber Green Woods in Spring Green, Wisconsin started their little wood-working shop three years ago. With just a laser cutter, they began cutting and engraving wooden snowflake ornaments out of wood scraps left over from their sustainable wood flooring business. Eventually, Matt Van Susteren and his wife Amie ventured into the online world of Etsy [...]

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USA Packaging Plant Keeps It Green

October 27, 2011

Recently a few of us at Nashville Wraps had the opportunity to visit one of our manufacturing partners in Portland, Oregon. They have found their niche and are supplying high quality, competitively priced, 100% recycled paper packaging products all across the United States and Canada. So what does it take to compete against the imports? [...]

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A New Twist on Reusable Gift Basket Containers

August 19, 2011

This is a great idea: A 100% cotton reusable gift basket container that also becomes part of the gift. With the addition of a gift basket bench, these little reusable containers convert into a very useful place to stash your stuff. These will be in stock the end of September. Order now to ensure you [...]

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The Organic Nest Proves That Green is a Beautiful Color

August 5, 2011

Here in Music City we like to pride ourselves in saying “We were country when country wasn’t cool,” like the popular Barbara Mandrell song goes. This is also true about Nashville Wraps’ customer Debbie Foster but in a different way. Debbie was into organics long before organic products and organic farming was ever cool. Her [...]

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Gracie Greene is One Recycled Doll!

July 22, 2011

After attending countless birthday parties for her children’s friends and shopping for the “perfect gift”, Catherine Zahn realized the gift should be fun and have a meaningful impact on children. That is when her idea of making dolls from recycled products and the concept of Gracie Greene™ was born, along with her company Trashion Dolls.

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Christmas in July at Nashville Wraps

July 15, 2011

Christmas comes early in the retail business, and even earlier for gift packaging companies like Nashville Wraps. 9 New Holiday Collections For a sneak peak of Christmas in July, our new Santa Peppermint Twist & Festive Holiday Twist Collections above are lighthearted fun with peppermints and polka dots. These paper shopping bags are made in [...]

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Saving Trees One Gift Bag at a Time

June 20, 2011

Terri Martin wants to change the way people think about reusing gift bags. After digging through her used gift bag pile, she discovered they were neither made in USA or of recycled material. That prompted Terri to start a business that made sense for the environment. Gift ‘n Grow offers eco-friendly, 100% recycled paper gift [...]

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Reusable Bag Update – Plastic vs. Cotton Bags

May 2, 2011

Every time I go to the grocery I take an impromptu poll on people that bring their reusable grocery bags. It’s about 20% now at Publix depending on which clerk you ask. Last year it was 15%. Remember when activist groups were freaking out over “billions of plastic bags”? So now we have billions of [...]

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