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Sustainable Products
Green, Cost Saving Packaging by Combining Stock and Custom Products
We are always looking for ways to help our customers reduce or minimize cost and recently we had two situations where...
Exposing the Myths about Custom Printed Shipping Boxes
Every once in a while I still run into a good potential printed box customer who repeats a myth or misconception about...
Packaging Glass Economically
Even before the yearend packaging industry numbers are in, I feel fairly confident predicting the glass segment had a...
4 Reasons Why We Refuse to Sell Foam Packing Peanuts
For the sake of full disclosure, we actually have two customers who order packing peanuts from us, along with their...
Die Cut Corrugated Mailers – How to Dress Them Up Economically
We have been busy growing our stock die cut mailer inventory to give customers as many choices as possible. Most of...
Sustainable Packaging, and Fishing Poles, Umbrellas and Yard Sticks
What does one have to do the others, you might ask when a blog post title more resembles that of a yet another Harry...
Eliminate Steel or Plastic Strapping by Roping Stretch Film
From a sustainable packaging standpoint, securing boxes to a pallet for shipment is a choice of lesser evils. Among...
Big Green Shipping Boxes Now Come In Smaller Bundles
For a long time we’ve tried to keep the bundle sizes on our Globe Guard stock shipping boxes at a consistent 25 boxes...
Unilever and Axe Deodorant Three Pack Win Globe Guard Eco Consistency Award
While recently shopping at a club store, I found myself intrigued by a sharp looking three pack of Axe dry deodorant....
Continuous Improvement in Sustainable Packaging
Our Sustainable Shipping Boxes and Recycled Mailers Are Now More Sustainable Continuous improvement is a well worn...
What Is Better than Recycling Packaging?
Most green minded people agree the only thing better than recycling used packaging is finding another or different use...
The Sustainably Confused and Marketing Challenged
We may not have the loudest voice but we proudly claim our rightful place in the in the front row of the sustainable...
Sustainable Packaging Solution – Corrugated Partitions
I think most would agree that corrugated board is one of the greenest packaging materials currently available. You can...
The Globe Guard Approach: Green, Greener and Greenest
Just when I start thinking I have said and written everything I possibly can about our Globe Guard eco friendly, 100%...
Selling Boxes versus Selling Packaging
A good customer friend recently recommended us to a customer of his and referred to us as “a great supplier of eco...
Taking the Fear Out of Custom, Green Boxes
It had been a while since I wrote on this subject but a recent experience reminded me it was time again. I spoke to a...
Green Means Never Having to Say You’re Sorry (for using a higher grade of packaging than necessary)
Much of the attention on sustainable secondary packaging is rightfully given to using too much of a given packaging...
Printed Water Activated Tape is Creative, Sustainable Packaging at its Best
What do a West Coast oyster farm, a Wisconsin maker of fine cutting tools, a creative designer of green products for...
Sustainable Packaging and the Magic Bullet
People who are eager to find quick and simple solutions to some of our most complex sustainability problems are often...
Corrugated Die Cut Mailers – A Greener, Eco Friendly, and Better Corrugated Box Option
They are known by many names including literature mailers, tuck and fold mailers, shipper boxes and even pizza boxes,...
Soft-But-Firm Sustainable Packaging Solution
Those are words usually reserved for describing a mattress or pillow but it this case they are also the best way to...
Can Sustainable Packaging Be Attractive and Decorative?
It sure can be and it can also be environmentally and socially responsible as well. We are very pleased to announce a...
Hey Green Business Owner, Your Boxes Are Talking about You
I have come to believe that every box has a story to tell about the person or company who sent it. I am quite sure...