Green Boxes for St. Patrick's Day

Oh, you won't believe how excited we are at The Tiny Offices.

St. Patrick's Day is next week and we have a warehouse full of green boxes and green bags. Not to mention green tissue paper and green ribbon.


Seriously, take a look. If you're selling any lovely St. Patrick's Day trinkets, we have just the packaging for you.


Do let us know if you're doing anything exciting for Paddy's Day.

Don't tell the boss but I've taken the day off and will be celebrating in Belfast. Hurrah!

Have a great week!

New Member of Staff.

I Can't Believe it's Recycled!

Our Business Development Manager, Jo, would like to say "hello" to everyone she met last Friday in Brighton. She visited lots of wonderful businesses and met lots of fantastic people.

It was a very exciting day for Jo. She took along some samples of our boxes and showed them to a lot of businesses - and the overwhelming reaction was:

"I can't believe it's recycled!"

This is exactly what we want to hear. We want to show people how technology has progressed and how serious the recycling industry now is. Recycled products are no longer about ugly paper bags, scratchy loo roll, egg cosies made from your granny's sweater and weird metal sculptures.

We believe that recycled packaging should be as beautiful as the product you put in it. And this isn't a dream any more, or a far off ambition. This is how it is. Demand from people like you and people like us has made it so. All we have to do now is keep telling people.

Oh, talking of beautiful things, check out Nina Sheer's jewellery. Beautiful designs and, of course, sold in lovely recycled boxes.

By the way, as part of spreading the word, some of the more serious of our blog posts are published elsewhere on the internet. If you consider any of our posts relevant to you or your business, please do feel free to copy and paste them onto your own blog or website. All we ask is that you include a link to our website at www.tinyboxcompany.com.

Have a great week!

New Member of Staff.

Our Heritage Is Saved!

Save our forests! 

I heard the good news today that the Government has backed down on its plans to sell off Britain's forests. This is excellent news - we need to do all we can to save our trees.

Nearly the weekend!

New Member of Staff

It's All About the Romance

Oo la la! Spring is in the air and Valentine's Day is nearly upon us. Needless to say, we at  have been working hard to fill The Tiny Warehouse with lovely, romantic boxes, bags and ribbon.

In the meantime, any flowers, chocolates or trinkets you wish to send to the ladies (or gents) at Tiny Box will be gratefully received.

Have a good week.


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Still Unsure of the Benefits of Recyling? Look to the Rainforests

Ever since recycling of goods became a widespread, commercial enterprise, sceptics have hailed the process as a worthless exercise. Many argue that the emissions from recycling are greater than that of producing virgin paper, or that the emissions from the transportation of recycled goods outweigh the carbon saved by not cutting down trees. However, research shows that while the early days of recycling presented fairly clunky, emission-heavy recycling processes, advances in technology have improved and streamlined the methods used to recycled materials. Data from the Bureau of International Recycling shows that producing paper via the recycling route entails 35% less water pollution and 74% less air pollution, although the organisation does not say how it reached this figure or what is taken into account.

Regardless of continuing arguments about whether trucks carrying logs produce more CO₂ than trucks carrying recycled paper or whether materials recycled in China produce more gases than virgin products made in the UK, a highly informative article by Daniel Howden of The Independent explains why we are missing the bigger picture. In order to slow the change in climate and regulate the ever more extreme weather patterns, he says we need to turn our eyes to the rainforests. According to Howden, while the destruction of the world’s rainforests is now being recognised as one of the main causes of climate change, global leaders are turning a blind eye to the crisis of worldwide deforestation. 

Of course, trees are not only felled to make paper. Areas are also cleared for cattle grazing, and agriculture, including the growth of palm oil and ostensibly health-promoting acai berries to fulfil the surge in demand. However, without the demand for wood, the act of clearing rainforests would be far less lucrative.

The rainforests, the majority of which are situated in South America and Indonesia, form a protection cooling band around the Earth's equator as well as generating the bulk of the rainfall worldwide. With the annual area of deforestation amounting to 50 million acres - or an area the size of England, Wales and Scotland, the rainforests now cover less than 7% of the earth. However, the remaining forest is calculated to contain 1,000 billion tons of carbon, or double what is already in the atmosphere.

The article cites a report published by the Global Canopy Programme (GPC), an alliance of leading rainforest scientists, which states that the emission of greenhouse gases as a result of the “rampant slashing and burning” of these tropical forests is second only to the energy sector. According to Howden, deforestation in the next 24 hours will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. Stopping the loggers, he argues, is the fastest and cheapest solution to climate change.

Of course, some paper products now come from sustainable forests. But much of it does not. Re-growing trees in sustainable forests is a slow process and therefore, it is often deemed quicker and cheaper to reap wood from virgin forests. However, the most effective way to reduce the demand for paper is to recycle it. Howden’s article demonstrates that the arguments regarding the amount of gases emitted during the recycling process are secondary to the urgent need to halt the deforestation. As the GCP's report concludes: "If we lose forests, we lose the fight against climate change."

Happy Christmas from Tiny Box

We at The Tiny Box Company would like to wish all our readers a very Happy Christmas and an exciting New Year.

This year has been economically challenging for the majority this year and we are extremely thankful for the custom we have received. It is heartening to know that even in such adverse financial conditions, many people are making sustainable and ethical choices when it comes to purchasing packaging.

We would like to thank everyone for their support this year and we especially appreciate the patience of those whose orders were affected by the snow.

With our thanks and best wishes,

All at The Tiny Box Company

Government Cuts

We at The Tiny Box Company think it best to remain politically neutral, outwardly at least. However, it has come to our attention that the latest wave of government cuts is affecting even the most affluent of areas.

New Member of Staff