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“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...

The Difference between 200# Test and 32ECT Corrugated Boxes

by Dennis Salazar | Oct 7, 2008 | Sustainable Products

Most industries have a standard for measuring or describing the construction of a particular material. However, in the corrugated industry, there are two standards – the Mullen Test and the Edge Crush Test. This leads to quite a bit of confusion in the...
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