ARE YOU GREEN?

The need for products that can be reused and recycled are in demand across the United States as consumers become more concerned about the environment and its effects on global warming.  In the packaging industry, we can support consumers by providing information to aid them in their efforts to recycle.

Corrugated Cartons:  Courrgated packaging has one of the best recoveries and recycling record of any packaging material on earth, with over 74% of all manufactured corrguated is recovered for reuse.

Cushioning Materials:

• Air Bubble Wrap - Contains 10-15% recycled content, made from 100% recycled materials, CFC-free with no mixed materials.  Retains and maintains cushioning performance for continued reuse. 
• Polyurethane Foam - In the United States, nearly all manufacturing scrap is collected and recycled.  Each year post-consumer waste foam is diverted from landfills and recycled as bonded carpet cushion or park benches.
• Unprinted news and Kraft back wadding - These can be recycled with mixed paper.  Fiber is renewable and production scrap is reclaimed.
• Loose Fill/Peanuts - Through a national reuse program for plastic loose fill, businesses average 50% reused loose fill for their shipments.  Many packing, shipping and moving stores will take and recycle used peanuts.  Check this website for locations to recycle loose fill products.  http://www.loosefillpackaging.com
• Air-filled bags - Expand on-site and the deflated cells can be returned to most manufacturers for recyclying back into LDPE.
• Polyethylene Rolls and Sheets - Provides superior protection, allowing for fewer wraps.  Made of recyclable, low-density polyethylene which generates a clean, high-energy material for conversion into energy.

Mailers:  When shipping low-profile items, mailers eliminate the use of corrugated containers.  Many are produced from post-consumer recycled fibers and are recycled in common mixed paper recycling streams.

Packaging Tape:  Water Activated Tape will bond even to dusty surfaces, is 100% recyclable and improves packaging security by making packaging boxes stronger.

Stretch Film:  Stretch wrap is most commonly made of linear low density polyethlene or LLDPE.  Recycling stretch wrap offers an attractive alternative to disposal.  There are ready markets for recycling clean material.

Strapping:  Plastic strapping that is polypropylene is 100% recyclable.

Wood Crates and Pallets:  Wood is natural, organic, renewable, nontoxic, recyclable and bio-degradable.  Crates are designed to ship delicate heavy items longer distances as well as providing reusability.

Want more information?  Use this site to see how you can help.  http://earth911.com/

Absolute Packaging seeks products that are environmentally friendly. 

Let us help you discover them.

Oversized products deserve the same gentle protective ride as their smaller counterparts; however, their size and weight far exceed corrugated box capacities.  Let us deliver wood crates and pallets in harmony with our protective foam interiors to safely transport your largest items.

Crates:  We deliver hand crafted, solid wood boxes or crates, individually sized for international or domestic shipping.   Our crates are kiln dried and certified with the ISPM (International Standards for Phytosanitary Measures) No.15 Stamp, ensuring that they are built insect free for shipments all over the world. 

Lining: Crates can be lined with foam for added protection or to provide a soft, shock free ride for electronics and other fragile items. We inventory a variety of cushioning materials that can be fitted to your crate such as convoluted foam, polyurethane foam or a more rigid Ethafoam®, polyethylene foam.  

Strapping:  We offer a variety of poly or steel strapping available in varying widths, thicknesses, grades, and strengths.  Also, we supply machine grade strapping, hand or polyester strapping as well as poly cord strapping and don’t forget the accessories (seals, buckles, tensioners, sealers, cutters, crimping tools, carts and dispensers.) 

Pallets:  Our pallets and decks are built to your specifications from hardwood, plywood, or a combination of materials based on payload and can be combined with triple wall cartons to create solid, inexpensive, light weight containers.  

Wood is recyclable; it can be re-used, re-worked and utilized many times before it loses its properties and usefulness.  It is bio-degradable and will decompose on its own.

At Absolute Packaging, we like what we do and have a passion for delivering packaging solutions that make the difference in your bottom line.  Over the years, we have delivered our clients protective foam interiors and custom exterior packaging specifically configured for their manufactured products.  We help you “design packaging from the inside out” and stock your shelves with materials that ensure safety in shipping. 

As a local foam manufacturer in Northern Virginia, we combine first class engineering with thousands of packaging supplies (cartons, boxes, poly bags, air bubble rolls, polyethylene/polyurethane foams, news print, loose fill peanuts, tape, labels, mailers, stretch films, triple wall cartons, crates, pallets, banding) ready for immediate delivery to better serve our custom foam clients.

Absolute Packaging is a foam designer and fabricator who create packaging solutions that protect your products whether shipping across town or around the world.

Contact us to learn about our unparalleled customer service backed by our CUSTOMER SERVICE COMMITMENT. Let us help you reduce your warehouse and shipping costs through our CUSTOMER STOCK PROGRAM.  Our products are manufactured in the USA and we work to ensure quality with every order.  In addition, we are committed to earth friendly products and finding innovative new products made in the USA.