Author Archives: Buffie Baril

Green Washing at Nashville Wraps?

Green Washing

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 just love questions like this because the answer may not be exactly what you would expect.

Not everyone gets a Nashville Wraps catalog

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A Sneak Peek of Green: Spring Packaging 2011

Candy Stripe Daisies crop

It’s so cold and snowy over half of the country right now, so let’s think about spring! 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. Coordinating packaging abounds: gift wrap, gift and shopping bags, reusable canvas bags, tissue paper and ribbons, as well as gourmet, nested and basket boxes.

Love bright colors? The Candy Stripe Daisies Collection is for you. Our 30%

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Have a Green Christmas with Eco-Friendly Retail Packaging

Christmas Packaging

This holiday season Nashville Wraps has pulled out all the stops and created our largest line of eco-friendly Christmas retail packaging.

We have 11 Green Way® Christmas designs with something to please everyone from traditional to contemporary, vintage to modern. Nashville Wraps was one of the first retail packaging companies to offer recycled gloss shopping bags and gift wrap.

Our designs range from 30-100% recycled paper content and plastic bags made from 25-100% recycled plastic. In addition to shopping bags and gift wrap, … Read More

Plastic Bags from Shellfish

Seashells

Sounds catchy doesn’t it? We saw this headline on a few websites recently and discussed in social media. We all want the perfect solution for our retail bags. But can this be true? You just may be surprised.

Believe it or not, there actually is some truth to this one. Calcium Carbonate (CaCO3) is a white, chalk-like mineral derived from trillions of ancient shellfish accumulated in the remains of prehistoric seas. The carbonate is mined underground and is used … Read More

Eco-Conscious Brides & Green Weddings

Green Wedding Packaging

You may have noticed the buzz growing about “green” weddings.  Many brides today want to not only have a beautiful wedding but be environmentally friendly with their choices.

Nashville Wraps has plenty of beautiful eco-friendly wedding gift wrap and pretty bags along with wedding favor packaging.

You can give each guest a flower bulb tucked into a 100% recycled kraft box and tie the knot with paper raffia. Or go all-out and have your monogram printed on the box, … Read More

Recycling is the Key to a True Green future for Retailers

Recycled plastic bags

Plastic bags are easy to hate, but when they are recycled properly they become “green” gold: A real, long-term, sustainable solution whose time has come, and is in fact already working in Southern California.

Trash goes in – new plastic material comes out. That’s the way it’s done in Vernon, California at Command Packaging’s recycling center, a Nashville Wraps Green Way® supplier.  Plastics are collected from a variety of industrial and consumer sources and brought into the recycling center as … Read More

About Nashville Wraps

Painted Daisies

Nashville Wraps® is the leader in eco-friendly gift and gourmet packaging. Most of our new designs are made from recycled materials and are branded under our highly-respected Green Way® “Packaging with Purpose” brand for eco-friendly packaging.


We are located just outside of Nashville in Hendersonville, TN. We’ve been in business since 1976 and supply packaging products to retail stores and to the gourmet food and gift basket industry.

Our goal is to make your business and products look good. Nashville … Read More

Additional Green Resources and Products

  • Let's Go Green
  • Wabnitz Editions
  • Promotional Product Soltutions
  • All About the Future
  • Dharma Merchant Services
  • Teragren
  • Sustainable is Good
  • Jonah Coyote Design
  • Zing Green Products
  • Green America
  • Squishy Press
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