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Besides the obvious ‘do you make this in plastic’ question that we occasionally field, the second most peculiar question we are asked is if we can ‘cover up the brown kraft’ and flood it with color or wrap it....and yes sometimes, we are asked if we can wrap it in plastic or vinyl.
So the short answer to these questions is - we make zero waste office products that do not end up in ...{ 4 comments }
Every so often you run into a cool 'tiny little company' as they put it, doing some neat stuff - Cardboard Safari fits that billing. We found them a while back and it is taken every bit of self-discipline we have not to line all of our office walls with their stuff. Fun and definitely a conversation piece. They also do a great job from a sustainability perspective and are super efficient with packaging.
Check them out at CardboardSafari.com and support a cool little Made in the USA company that is doing things the right way.
Kind of wishing it was Christmas already so we could go crazy! ...{ 0 comments }
Some of our team just got back from #ExpoWest. Overall impressions were mixed. The good news, there is still innovation building responsible products out there. The bad news, there is equal innovation in greenwashing...making it more challenging for the authentic to prevail through the noise.
Winners - We loved the Seventh Generation new kraft cardboard packaging and look. It delivered their ...{ 1 comment }
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Well, we can't guarantee either of those things. But we can help you a little bit towards those goals through our new ReBinder Customer Images program. Our customers do beautiful things with the blank canvas of ReBinder products, and we want to show those off!
How does it work? Simply send us an action shot of ReBinder products being used in in a creative ...{ 1 comment }
The vultures are circling and they are looking to prey on your guilt and 'green' dollar. Long gone are the days of just looking for a recycle symbol and pushing the buy button. Today, this symbol is probably one of the most overly used / abused and diluted symbols in the market place and it has been rendered virtually meaningless.
Note to selves - don't trust a 'green' label by itself. For that ...{ 1 comment }
Every year, eBay holds an internal competition amongst employess to see who can come up with some breakthrough ideas. The winner this year was the " simple green box ".
While eBay doesn't actually ship anything themselves, they have millions of buyers and sellers in their network that use vast quantities of packing materials. eBay's concept is that a strong, reusable box made from recycled materials ...{ 0 comments }
When we attend industry events, it is always shocking to see how some companies and products use the traditional recycle symbol in marketing. There are times we've seen this logo applied to a non 'green binder', where it points out that some tiny percent of the chipboard used as the skeleton inside the toxic vinyl is recycled. The new 'green binder' now has a higher price and is marketed ...{ 2 comments }
We hope the days of Styrofoam packaging are behind us and we can look to industry leaders like Dell who care about their packaging. Last year, Dell replaced Styrofoam and plastic packaging that cushioned their laptops with molded pulp fiber. This year, they have added an FSC Certified Bamboo material that is fully compostable. Dell set some aggressive packaging goals in 2008 to reduce the ...{ 0 comments }
We love the fact that our products have multiple uses. Designer, Felix Heinen , used our ReSleeve to protect sets of promotional coasters he made for his client; Tyze. Each ReSleeve and Coaster were letter pressed with a unique design. We think they turned out great.
Tyze develops secure, online personal networks to assist health care providers, families, and friends ...{ 2 comments }
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