Greening your packaging process
I ran across an interesting piece today on the Sustainable Business Forum on helping green your supply chain. According to author Dave Meyer, one of th...
I ran across an interesting piece today on the Sustainable Business Forum on helping green your supply chain. According to author Dave Meyer, one of th...
I ran across an interesting piece today on the Sustainable Business Forum on helping green your supply chain.
According to author Dave Meyer, one of the best ways to add sustainability to a supply chain is to rethink packaging.
Meyer starts off the piece by comparing an efficient packaging model to the pea pod, what he calls the “greatest sustainable packaging design nature can provide. It packs a lot in a small space.”
Indeed, packaging is one of the most important sustainable attributes to any supply chain, as packaging starts from product design and goes all the way to delivery. “That’s why sustainable practices in packaging are so important in driving supply chain efficiency,” Meyer writes.
Below are the top nine sustainable initiatives you can take to green your packaging process:
Greening your supply chain is a process that faces many challenges and can take months. Despite much of the bad press it receives, Wal-Mart is a leader in green packaging, using its 7 R’s of Sustainable Packing (remove packaging, reduce packaging, reuse packaging, renewable, recyclable, revenue and read).
Read the piece here to get a better understanding of green packaging practices!