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Why We’re Not Crazy Telling You Not to Buy the Corrugated Boxes We’re Trying to Sell You

by Dennis Salazar | Dec 18, 2008 | Sustainable Products

As a marketing specialist, I myself find it strange that at the same time we’re promoting Globe Guard 100% PCW content corrugated boxes, we’re writing post upon post telling people how to use less corrugated or no corrugated at all. Well, we definitely...

“Virgin” Corrugated Board and Other Green Myths

by Dennis Salazar | Dec 16, 2008 | Sustainable Products

I recently had another “Madonna Experience”, with a potential customer who hesitated to make what he thought was the quantum leap from his current corrugated boxes, ALL the way to our Globe Guard 100% PCW recycled content corrugated boxes. Those conversations always...

Green Packaging: Paperboard versus Corrugated

by Dennis Salazar | Dec 11, 2008 | Sustainable Products

Both materials can be excellent eco-friendly packaging. Paperboard packaging is what you see on a FedEx or USPS style flat mailer envelope, or a typical cereal box. By comparison corrugated board has fluting and is what a standard brown box is made of. The line used...

High Mileage Peaches and Other Absurdities of our Sustainable Lives

by Dennis Salazar | Dec 2, 2008 | Sustainable Products

If you look at the label on the pictured Dole product, you see that it is “natural”. I doubt any of us really understand what natural means anymore, but at least in theory, it’s a good thing, right? Shoppers everywhere just like my wife seek and buy products that are...

What’s Wrong with this Picture? A Green Packaging Challenge

by Dennis Salazar | Oct 30, 2008 | Sustainable Products

Even if you are not a regular reader and subscriber to this blog, please accept this as sustainable challenge #1. How quickly and easily can you spot a product or package that that is, let’s call it, “less than innocent” in terms of greenness? You have an opportunity...
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