Category Archives: Bags

Foodservice operators can green their waste-stream

April 17, 2012 | By Allen King

Has this happened to you? You go to empty your compostables garbage can and the bag disintegrates in your hand just as you lift it out of the container. Yuck! That won’t happen with our new certified-compostable can liners.

These days, businesses want to send more of their food and organic waste to municipal composting facilities but don’t know where to source strong and economical can liners that are accepted in municipal compost programs. We’re trying to change that … Read More

Eco-Friendly Favor Bags for Easter from Nashville Wraps

March 14, 2012 | By Buffie Baril

Being green for Easter just got a lot easier with eco-friendly favor bags from Nashville Wraps. Just fill these with your favorite candies or small gifts for adorable Easter baskets.

Our Nature Flex cello bags are certified biodegradable and compostable and made carbon zero. They are made from wood cellulose fibers sourced with sustainable forestry principles. They meet FDA requirements for direct food contact and are perfect for candies, cookies and other treats. They are available in many sizes and … Read More

Nashville Wraps Spring Packaging Made in the USA

February 1, 2012 | By Buffie Baril

Spring has sprung at Nashville Wraps, and we have five 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.

Pretty Petals

Ideal for gift shops and boutiques, our 100% Recycled Pretty Petals paper shopping bags will look great right through Mother’s Day. Printed on white kraft paper with a beautiful pink and green floral design, this collection has coordinating 90% recycled … Read More

For smart and chic retailers, recycled = premium

October 12, 2011 | By Allen King

Have you noticed those stylish shopping bags that up-market department stores lavish on their customers? They’re a far cry from the plastic bags offered by the big-box retailers, and they are clearly not an inexpensive line item in the operating budget of a Nordstrom or Macys. Shoppers at these retailer locations have come to expect quality shopping bags as part of the shopping experience. In fact, some retailers’ shopping bags are so nice that shoppers use them for other purposes, … Read More

Innovative grocers are adding extra green to the produce aisle

August 31, 2011 | By Allen King

The produce department of any supermarket is one of those places where one cannot help but feel in touch with planet Earth. You might be just paces from the cleaning products aisle where chemicals of all types are beautifully merchandised, but in the produce department you’re surrounded by the bounty of many American states and foreign countries. You pick out a couple of peaches, tear off a produce bag, and add them to your basket. Sounds perfect, doesn’t it?

But … Read More

New Recycled, Reusable Studio Plastic Shopping Bags

June 22, 2011 | By Buffie Baril

Here at Nashville Wraps, we are always striving to bring you new green packaging solutions for your business. I am excited to share with you more recycled and reusable bags that will help with those green initiatives.

Our new Studio Plastic Shopping Bags with soft loop handles are made in the USA from recycled Encore film. The recycled content ranges from 50%-100% recycled material depending on the designs, which include Sunflowers, Denim, Cityscape and Purple Heart.

They meet reusable standards … Read More

Saving Trees One Gift Bag at a Time

May 18, 2011 | By Buffie Baril

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 the USA nor constructed 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 bags made in the USA. To encourage people to reuse the bags, inside each one is an I.D. code to help identify that … Read More

100% Recycled – 100% American – 100% Affordable!

April 13, 2011 | By Buffie Baril

“Blue Birds singing a song, nothing but Blue Birds…”
At Nashville Wraps, we’re singing the popular Irving Berlin tune “Blue Skies” because our new 100% Recycled Blue Bird Berries Collection has been a big hit! It seems to resonate joy and hope with our customers. Many of our customers asked for songbirds on our packaging, and we listened. These Green Way® eco-friendly bags are perfect for Spring and Summer.

Easter & Wedding Packaging

Easter is a just a couple … Read More

What do Bread Bags made from Recycled Paper, Coffee Cups and Water have in Common?

March 23, 2011 | By Allen King

One of our customers, Acme Bread, a well know artisan bread bakery in Northern California, is saving more than 70,000 gallons of water each year simply by selling their bread in their new bread bags. At no cost to them, we switched the paper we used to produce their printed bags to 40% post-consumer recycled paper, which is FDA approved for food contact. This is a pretty unusual for the bread industry.

My two boys grew up on Acme Bread … Read More

ECOBAGS® Case Study: The Itsy Bitsy Bikini Package

February 16, 2011 | By Ellen Ornato

Sometimes thinking outside the box means thinking inside the bag. The ECOBAGS® product team was approached to help a customer create packaging for a line of fun, funky bikinis. The challenge with displaying two piece bathing suits was that if they were hung the sets got broken, stolen or damaged. In a solid box they weren’t visible, and the owners were not willing to use any plastic in the design since the suits themselves were “eco luxury” items.

As we … Read More