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Sustainable Products
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
We are very fortunate to work with many new companies or companies with new products requiring green packaging. In...
The Many Faces of Reusable Shipping Containers
It is great to see a surge of interest in reusable packaging in many different forms and faces; some very familiar and...
Custom Printed Water Activated Tape – Sustainability and Branding Made Easy
It is increasingly difficult today to make a lasting positive impression on a customer considering all of the...
Good Small Products Deserve Good, Green Packaging
Downsizing is not always a step backwards. In fact, for sustainability downsizing is a big plus. Minimizing the size...
The Plastic Bag is Exorcized and Recycled
People involved in the green movement love to demonize things and let’s face it, in many cases it is so darn easy....
A Plastic Bag by Any Other Name
First let me say I love Kohl’s retail stores. If you are looking for almost any brand name product ranging from...
Helping Green Packaging Customers Find Green Packaging Solutions
The world of the internet is a complicated one and it is relatively easy to wind up lost among the incredible amount...
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...