If you wrap an expensive gift in single use wrapping paper, are you wrapping it in trash?
50,000 additional tonnes of landfill waste is created by New Zealanders in just the 7 days after Christmas... every. year.
That’s enough to fill 14,286 shipping containers… if stacked they would reach 105 times the height of NZ's Sky Tower. It's time to sustainably update our cherished family traditions ensuring they continue to thrive.
Celebrate for Generations
The Christmas holidays are about memories passed down. Baking cookies with Grandma, Christmas morning gifts, or hanging that well-loved ornament on the tree. When our traditions rely on disposable ribbons, plastic bows, and piles of wrapping paper, the next generation might be the first to say “no thanks.”
Our 100% cotton, reusable gift bags and patent-pending Christmas crackers make it easy to swap out single-use waste for something lasting and beautiful. Build a tradition your family will cherish for years (and decades) to come, because the holidays shouldn’t mean mountains of trash.
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Meet Emma
Hello! Curious?
I have always gone ‘slightly’ overboard Christmas. Too much food, too many costumes, drowning in decorations and spending waaay too much money on things that don’t last – or if they do last it’s because they’re plastic and will outlast me and another 20 generations.
I was sick of the waste, sick of wrapping presents for hours and hours on Christmas eve, fighting with the sellotape and searching the house for a pair of scissors.
I embarked on a journey to craft reusable bags, realistic Christmas crackers and even fabric tissue paper.
Now, everything is wrapped in half an hour! Then on Christmas morning the kids easily stuff everything back into the biggest gift bag.
I thought I was onto something great when family and friends requested their own. After thousands of happy customers, tens of thousands of crackers and hundreds of thousands of gift bags, I am sure.
Emma Conyngham
Get Christmas Sorted.
As seen in
From crackers to wrapping paper, why is it that Christmas always gives the gift of waste?
Hilary Barry & Jeremy Wells. TVNZ
Now our reusable Christmas crackers are award winning :)
We are so proud of our Christmas re-crackers! Which won both a gold medal and the editor's choice award at the Australian Clean & Conscious Awards.
There is no need to celebrate with disposable trash. Give joy, not waste.
Keep all the fun and tradition of Christmas without adding to the literal mountain of waste.
Let's keep in touch
To get in touch please send us an email via hello@wastefreecelebrations.co.nz.
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