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Effective Planning Reduces Waste
Inventory planning and waste tracking are essential components for reducing business waste. These tools can also create opportunities for new ideas, new products, and further waste reduction. Operations and Planning at Elevate Packaging At Elevate, our effective planning ensures that we remain in stock. This rigor has been particularly important in recent years. As multiple industries have [...]
The Truth About Recyclable Packaging
For over 50 years, the petroleum industry has told consumers that their plastics will be recycled. Recyclable packaging is often touted as the most sustainable option. The truth is the vast majority of our recycling is not actually recycled. It’s supposed to work like this: We put our recyclables into the bin, they’re hauled away to MRFs (Materials [...]
Eco-Friendly Ecommerce Packaging
Seller platforms and marketplaces such as Etsy, BigCommerce, and Amazon have enabled small businesses to more easily sell their products directly to consumers. While this is a good thing for small businesses, the increase in online shopping means a lot more individual products being shipped. This increase can also mean more waste, and larger environmental impact. When [...]
Sustainability at Elevate Packaging
How We Practice What We Preach At Elevate Packaging, we have a firmly held consistent and sincere mission that is at the core of our purpose: Eliminate the need for landfills and the negative environmental impact caused by packaging. We focus on this by providing the world's most innovative sustainable packaging in every product category we [...]
The Compostable Coffee Bag You’ve Been Waiting For!
Eco-Friendly Coffee Just Got Even Better: 100% Compostable Coffee Packaging with Compostable Valve At Elevate Packaging we’ve been working hard to develop a high-performance coffee bag made with certified compostable films. Our compostable coffee bags and pouches have a high barrier layer for oxygen and moisture, plus every component is compostable!Sustainable Coffee Requires Eco-Friendly Packaging The coffee [...]
Fight Food Waste
The Problem of Food Waste Food waste has long been a problem in the US. A 2018 study by the USDA found that the average American wastes about one pound of food per day. Altogether that is enough to feed 2 billion extra people per year. Homes are not the only places where food is wasted. [...]
Why Choose Eco-Friendly Packaging?
The trend towards eco-friendly packaging is growing! Campaigns to ban single use plastics have continued gaining momentum - both consumers and local government are beginning to hold retailers and brands accountable for their impact on the environment. Every year, more products are sold via ecommerce. Consumers are turning their critical eye to wasteful packaging, and with [...]
Sustainable Packaging Guide - Eco-friendly Label Adhesive
When we think about sustainable packaging solutions it’s important to consider every single aspect. A lot of different materials can go into making packaging - sustainability doesn’t exist in isolation, for packaging to be truly sustainable every single part must be eco-friendly! One often overlooked packaging component is label adhesive. Adhesive is critical - it ensures that [...]
Sustainable Packaging Guide - Compostable Cellophane
Biodegradable and compostable films (bioplastics/biofilms) may seem like new inventions, but in fact some have been around for longer than you might think! Invented by Swiss chemist Jacques E. Brandenberger in the 1900’s, cellophane was the very first see-through packaging. It was one of the first plastics, and biodegradable! In 1912, Whitman’s candy company popularized the [...]
Building Resilient Communities Through Composting
Effective composting takes place at many levels: In rural, suburban, and urban areas there are a variety of different types, at different scales. Industrial facilities can serve a large population and divert a significant amount of organic material away from landfill. Backyard, neighborhood, and community composting are smaller scale but no less important to the [...]
