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.
Is there an alternative to single-use crackers and gift wrap?
We have something you'll love. And it isn't plain brown wrapping paper... We promise you full festivity with zero compromises on tradition and zero waste.
🎄 Reusable Christmas Crackers
🎄 Reusable Cotton Gift Bags
🎄 Reusable Gift Tags
🎄 Reusable Cracker Crowns
Invest once and reuse these products party after party, year after year.
50,000 additional tonnes of landfill waste is created every Christmas
By New Zealanders in just the 7 days after Christmas (The Sustainability Trust). That’s enough to fill 14,286 shipping containers… if stacked they would reach 105 times the height of NZ's Sky Tower.
Reusable Kiwi Christmas
Reusable Gift Bags
Say good-bye to wrapping paper and sticky tape; stop ransacking the house for a pair of scissors at 11pm on Christmas Eve. With our reusable Christmas gift bags you will wrap that 7-sided dollhouse on wheels in four seconds flat and make clean-up on Christmas morning a breeze. Once you've switched to bags you will never go back to paper!
Our bags are pro-planet, 100% cotton and look beautiful under the tree. Best of all, they will last generations and create your own family tradition as they get handed down the generations.
Our mission is to take the waste out of the most excessive time of the year: no more wrapping paper, ribbons, sticky tape, gift tags, or tissue going to the bins.
Combined with our reusable Christmas crackers, we can remove most single-use waste from December 25.
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
Poppin' Crackers
Designed to preserve tradition and reduce waste. We have cancelled those awful throw away cracker with plastic 'gifts' that make Christmas crackers so unappealing.
Our beautifully hand made, patent-pending, Christmas Crackers can be re-loaded each year for years of future use.
Yes, they are machine washable!
They come as empty cracker sleeves ready to fill with a 'snap', reusable crowns, and gifts.
As seen in
From crackers to wrapping paper, why is it that Christmas always gives the gift of waste?
Hilary Barry & Jeremy Wells. TVNZ
Manufacturing in Kabul, Afghanistan
We have moved our manufacturing to Kabul, Afghanistan by doing this, our production costs are lowered and we can pass this on to you! But it was mostly a heart decision because that's who we are.
Our head of production, Rahila, who has worked for us for the last three years has returned to Kabul to set up our factory where we employ vulnerable women who are experiencing immeasurable hardship.
Our product is merely the vehicle we use to assist women in dire circumstances. I lived there in 2004-2006 as a humanitarian so I know the people and landscape really well -- hence my ongoing relationship with the Afghan community.
–Emma Conyngham
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.
Let's keep in touch
To get in touch please give us a call on +6421 810 166,
or send us an email via hello@wastefreecelebrations.co.nz.
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