Inside Sustainable and Branded Packaging

A few months ago, we warned you that the corrugated industry was attempting to push through their third price increase...

Die Cut versus RSC Style Corrugated Shipping Boxes

It is not at all uncommon for an application or product to be able to ship out in either a die cut mailer box or a...

Can Packaging Aids and Dispensers be Sustainable?

Some people are surprised to go to our green packaging web store and find a section devoted to a selection of...

Minimizing the Unexpected Costs of Green Die Cut Boxes

We enjoy creating eco friendly printed, die cut containers, but they are not exempt from many of the same potential...

Spreading the Green Word: Now on Environmental Leader

Everyone who knows me will tell you how much I enjoy talking and writing about sustainable packaging. I especially...

Salazar Packaging Selected as Preferred Packaging Supplier to Green America’s Green Business Network

Green America’s Green Business Network (GBN) is the first, largest, and oldest organization of socially and...

Congressional Honor for Salazar Packaging and Our Sustainable Packaging Innovation

by Dennis Salazar | Salazar News

We are proud to announce Salazar Packaging was honored at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute's (CHCI) Public...

The New eBay Reusable Box – Not Perfect but a Timely Idea

The new box that eBay has created for their customers to reuse is an excellent concept and it could not come at a...

Small Boxes are Big Problem for Large Retailers

We have spent a great deal of time suggesting the idea of “right sizing”, which is essentially only using as large of...

How to Dramatically Increase the Value of Your Boxes with Minimal Additional Cost

There is no doubt most people know us for our 100% PCW recycled content corrugated, stock, shipping boxes, but over...

Branding and Messaging Goes Way Beyond Sustainability

Every once in a while we are involved in a packaging application that really makes us think about the non-business messaging we communicate to others. This post explores one such example.

Canon Printer Packaging – Not Eco Consistent or Up to Date

One of the things I find most interesting about sustainable packaging as well as quite frustrating at times, is that...

Application Appropriate Sustainable Void Fill Packaging

It’s a picture reminiscent of “Where’s Waldo?” but can you find the missing component in the photo below? A stand for...

Hybrids Not Included – What Green Businesses Can Learn from Auto Makers

I could no longer put off a task that I enjoy almost as much as an IRS audit or root canal surgery – I had to shop for...

Packaging Equipment Activity – A Reason to be Optimistic

We are so focused on sustainable packaging and that is obviously what we are best known for, but we also happen to be...

Sustainable Packaging Question: 100% Recycled Content versus 100% Biodegradable

One thing we have learned about supplying “green” packaging products to eco minded customers, is that they tend to...

Is Planet versus Profit a Necessary Choice in Sustainable Packaging?

In most cases the answer is no. We realize most businesses today are facing enormous pressure to control or reduce...

Let’s Talk about Sustainable Packaging

Over the course of the last three years I have been privileged to share my, at times, unusual perspective on eco...

Packaging Sustainability and Baby Steps

The nouveau green packaging industry loves to talk about biodegradability, recyclability, compostability, recycled...

Green Accountability and Visibility of Imported Reusable Bags

At a recent conference I attended as I was walking the show aisles, I was handed an “eco friendly reusable bag” by one...

The Green Get Greener with Reusable Packaging

Eco Bags is one of our newest customers but I think most would agree they are not band wagon jumpers in the area of...

Mills Gone Wild or How to Play Safely in a Fast Rising Market

What may sound like a story about intoxicated college students on Spring Break is really not that at all. It is about...

Can Retail Packaging Be Attractive, Unique and Green?

Retail packaging can be attractive, unique and green - and we have helped many companies create packaging that is eye...

Short or Single Run Packaging Solution – Think Digital Printing