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Meet the new NeRa from Tosca: Europe’s strongest heavy-duty, nestable rackable pallet that delivers efficiencies and sustainability across the supply chain
November 5, 2021
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Meet the new NeRa from Tosca: Europe’s strongest heavy-duty, nestable rackable pallet that delivers efficiencies and sustainability across the supply chain
November 5, 2021
Read More >Lightweight primary packaging has become a major focus in the consumer packaged goods industry because of the sustainability it can offer. By reducing the amount of material used to create disposable packages, companies can limit the environmental impact of single-use-plastics, save on material and transport costs, and help reach supply chain sustainability goals all in one swipe. In other words, lightweight packaging enables sustainability and as a whole, it benefits…
Since corrugated cardboard was invented in 1894, it has barely improved as a packaging option, and continues to wreak havoc on our fragile environment and threaten supply chain sustainability. The amount of resources it takes to create corrugated cardboard packaging is only outdone by the amount of pollution created from its manufacturing process. Why Divert…
Expanded polystyrene (EPS) foam packaging, more commonly known to consumers by its brand name, “Styrofoam,” has long been the seafood industry’s go-to transport packaging of choice. Its insulating properties and light weight made it the seemingly ideal transport packaging for seafood. But a powerful tide has begun to turn against EPS. Polystyrene foam is undeniably…
China’s decision earlier this year to become much more restrictive in its intake of worldwide corrugated cardboard waste is increasingly problematic for U.S. businesses and threatens supply chain sustainability. What does that mean for the future of OCC recycling? China’s restriction, which now requires incoming OCC to contain 0.5 percent or less of contaminants from…
Imagine the 100,000-seat Rose Bowl filled to the brim with wasted food. That’s not just a nightmare scenario, it’s actually happening in landfills all over America. The EPA estimates that in 2010 alone, 33 million tons of wasted food—enough to fill the Rose Bowl—was thrown out. In many cases food never makes it to the…
In Hamilton County, Ohio, a mountain rises 1,075 feet above sea level. It’s known to locals at Mount Rumpke, and it’s the highest point in the county. But this is no ordinary mountain. It’s a landfill, a mountain made of trash. It’s a monument—or maybe eyesore is a better description—to a bulging problem: we’re simply…
A recent decision by China to reject OCC may force many businesses to find alternatives to recycling corrugated. Call it a cardboard apocalypse, but as China struggles to cope with its own waste, it’s decided not to purchase the multiple tons of old corrugated cardboard (OCC) it’s bought from the U.S. since the 1980s. The…
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