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.

At Absolute Packaging, we like what we do. We design and manufacture protective foam interiors specifically configured for a wide assortment of manufactured products. Our professional design engineers create “packaging from the inside out” using smart, innovative designs that keep safety and simplicity foremost. 

We are backed with a full line of advanced manufacturing equipment and proprietary systems which allow us to produce consistent, predictable, top quality products time and time again.  Our designs are engineered to meet International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) drop testing specifications. This ISTA design approach provides first design product protection as it should be, from the inside out. Our materials of choice are:

Ethafoam® (Polyethylene Foam):  a semi-rigid, versatile cushioning material, often found protecting electronic equipment.  Polyethylene is available in a variety of finishes, colors, and thicknesses.  Material densities begin with a lightweight 1.2# per cubic foot up to a solid 9# per cubic foot, material utilized for blocking and bracing Military Tank components is available with anti static and/or fire retardant additives. 

Polyurethane Foam:  a softer cushioning material most commonly recognized as the material used in your office chair comes in an endless variety of densities, colors, finishes, and textures.  Absolute Packaging’s polyurethane designs will be found protecting our military’s armaments, items from The National Archives, arts and antiques, medical equipment, or guarding DNA purification solutions.  

You will find our materials in your Transit Cases; molded or soft-sided cases.  Also, let us manufacturer your cartons and boxes.  Exterior packaging that wraps around carefully designed foam interiors.  

This is our business and we take pride in using our experience to improve your bottom line.