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Great Green Ideas Don’t Have to Be Big or Expensive

by Dennis Salazar | Mar 17, 2009 | Sustainable Products

In fact our green idea is fairly small and is only 15.75” X 14.25” X 9” high at its greatest dimensions. Some might even call it compact, so it can more easily be utilized in a small home or business office environment. What we offer is a rather unique recycling tote...

“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...

Can “Cohesive” Packaging be Green Packaging?

by Dennis Salazar | Dec 9, 2008 | Sustainable Products

Image via Wikipedia The world of packaging is changing very rapidly and what was not green a year ago may be very sustainable today. A recent customer project has motivated me to do some research in an effort to update my knowledge base in this rarely used but usually...

In a Rotten Economy, Green Packaging Is More Important than Ever

by Dennis Salazar | Dec 4, 2008 | Sustainable Perspective

Image by Getty Images via Daylife Some fear that a rotten economy will spoil the green packaging movement. The thinking goes, if people must choose between saving the world and saving their business, they’ll save their business. That’s true. However, the...

Sustainability Is in the Eye of the Beholder

by Dennis Salazar | Nov 25, 2008 | Sustainable Products

Image by Getty Images via Daylife I really wish that was not the case but it is. I have written and spoken on this topic numerous times but a recent reader response on this blog from Neil Hunter in the UK has motivated me to address it once again. I think we all hope...
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