Cardboard. One of the most commonly used paper-based products in the world, with a hugely versatile range of applications. From boxes to cards, tubes to boards; most products are recyclable but there is also a huge scope to reuse them. Cardboard doesn’t like getting wet, but other than that it’s fairly good to go with any number of reuses.
Aluminium is an extremely versatile material and ticks the recycling box easily. Why then are more and more manufacturers in the packaging sector looking to replace it with metal free alternatives?
Envirocool® is the latest in our range of environmentally friendly packaging, the first to market that ticks ALL of the eco-boxes you can think of and then some. Organic, biodegradable, compostable, recyclable and vegan friendly, Envirocool® has been developed initially for the food industry but is due to be rolled out across our other market sectors later this year.
We as a nation have become complacently lazy when it comes to single use plastics; wake up to what can and can’t be recycled to help build an environmentally friendly future!
Biodegradable items have their time and place, but it is important that we as a nation understand just how long things take to break down in landfill, especially when many items that are thrown away as general waste can be recycled or reused instead
Pre-assembled packaging has a lot of merits, but is it time for it to move over and make way for self-assembly packaging that can be put shipped in compact form and put together at point of dispatch?
As with all our product line up, our latest liner, Recycle-Air, comes with its own set of reuse options. It does not have a reflective layer so cannot be used for the same reuse purposes as the Reflective Air liners, but that doesn’t mean it can be reused any less!
We’ve said before that the term “biodegradable” is actually an attractive way of saying “send to landfill” and the latest news from the Foodservice Packaging Association (FPA) backs this up – they are calling for the term “biodegradable” to be wiped from packaging descriptions to stop confusion over how items can be disposed of
Our latest Product Showcase for RecycleAir®, our 100% recyclable, temperature controlled packaging solution for food shipments. Introduced in August 2018, so far this liner has been a huge success for our customers
We have many environmental issues to face up to as we move into 2019; plastic in our oceans, raising further awareness of correct recycling practices for recyclable materials, reducing the amount of waste we as a nation put into landfill, and now also the fact that gel polymer is looking set to become the new “fat cake” in our sewers.
Our awareness as a nation needs to grow when it comes to our “throwaway” culture and grabbing drinks in plastic bottles to have on the go. Biodegradable bottles will go some way to addressing the issue, but do the real problems lie in the way we are marketed to?
Polystyrene has a bad rep, but we’re here to tell you differently. Not only can it be reused, it can also be recycled – read on to find out more!
We talk about “Phase Change Materials” or PCM on our website and products a lot, but what actually are they, and why do we use them in our range of temperature controlled shipping products?
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