This past summer my younger daughter, who will be a college senior, spent a lot of time at the beach. But it wasn’t to sunbathe or swim. She is an Environmental Studies major and as part of her senior capstone project she interned at a Cleveland-based organization that is a member of the Alliance for …
Industry members are preparing their fleets, landfills and MRFs for the large amount of waste and recycling materials that will soon be ready for pickup and disposal. The holiday season is here, and while many people are finishing up their to-do list, wrapping the last of their presents and finalizing their travel plans, members …
Kids of all ages from around the world are invited to build something amazing out of cardboard, recycled materials and imagination. Inspired by the short film, ‘Caine’s Arcade’, the Global Cardboard Challenge is an annual event presented by the Imagination Foundation to celebrate child creativity and the role communities can play in fostering it. In …
Amazon is marking a tenth holiday season since the launch of its “Frustration-Free Packaging”, designed to reduce waste with easy-to-open recyclable packaging. This is however tempered by frequent complaints criticising both over-packaging and even under-packaging. The e-retailer was recently blasted for using up to 45ft of paper packaging to protect a wall calendar. Paradoxically, it was …
The corrugated segment of the packaging industry is growing rapidly. Demand for corrugated packaging material is expected to increase by an average of more than 4% annually over the next five years, and will amount to almost 115 million tonnes of converted material worth an estimated $176 billion by 2019. There are a number of …
Through its Amazon Packaging Certification program and other initatives, the world’s largest online retailer is partnering throughout the supply chain to improve brown paper box packaging for ecommerce deliveries. With a win-win-win strategy that includes partnerships throughout the supply chain, the world’s largest online retailer is collaborating with the industry to optimize packaging design for …