How to Work with Your Vendors to Go on a Packaging Diet

Great article on how to reduce packaging. Three simple steps:

1. Eliminate unneeded items
2. Right-size the remaining packaging
3. Sustain with green packaging that is reused or recycled.

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Permalink Reply by Jeff Millis on March 2, 2010 at 11:37am: That is an excellent article. I'd love to see packaging looked at from all angles. Just buying one boxed meal can produce a cardboard container a plastic container and, if there's seasonings too, a paper container too. Packaging materials can make up the vast majority of anyone's waste stream and I know from our own experience at Talan Products that oftentimes vendors may at first squawk about changing their normal packaging but if you explain how important it is to you and how it might affect business with them they'll generally come around.; ▶ Reply to This