Recycling: Coming to Terms With the Terminology
Everyone knows what recycling means, right? It’s not a new concept, and nearly all of us have been participating in recycling efforts for some time now. We likely have some sort of sanitation receptacle at home where we put all those things we’re told to recycle, and the contents of this container are collected on […]
Life Cycle Assessment Part 1: Revealing More Than Meets the Eye
We’ve all heard the ‘tip of the iceberg’ analogy for explaining how there is more to a given subject than meets the eye. A Sustainability Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) can help reveal environmental impacts, both positive and negative, of a package or label beyond its primary sustainable traits. In fact, an LCA can be run for […]
How Green Is Your Packaging? A Simple Sustainable Packaging Audit
Summer is officially underway, and everything is ‘greening up’ outside. Some businesses experience a little slow down in summer, and that may be a great time to take stock of packaging strategies. A packaging audit can help identify areas of strengths and weakness in your strategy and reveal opportunities to improve performance. In this “season […]
The Next “R” in the Sustainable Triad: Reuse
A few months ago, we introduced the concept of material reduction in the development of sustainable packaging and labeling (material reduction). It is the first element of the “Reduce – Reuse – Recycle” fundamentals we are all aware of. This month we talk about ‘reuse’ of packaging and packaging elements as a strategy to achieve […]
Designing Packaging to Optimize Recyclability
We are all in agreement about recycling everything we can for a healthier world and conservation of resources. Recycling is a key element of an overall circular economy strategy. This is as true for packaging as any other consumable. Yet despite our best efforts, not every package we target for recycling gets recycled. There are […]
Label Material Reduction: A Case of “Less Is More”
Reduce – Reuse – Recycle It’s highly likely you’ve heard this mantra sometime in the past ten years as the U.S. and the world work toward more environmentally-friendly ways of living and doing business. It’s a simple way of looking at a complex issue. And it’s a great place to start when developing a sustainable […]
Package Recycling: Making Sure It Happens
Everybody is talking about sustainability lately. It’s certainly a buzzword in commerce, and companies are clamoring to communicate how ‘environmentally-friendly’ their processes and products are. But what does it really mean to be ‘sustainable?’ Let’s take a look at it from a packaging perspective, since that’s our business! We at AWT have recently developed a […]
SMI = A Lot Less to Worry About
Managing a business provides a lot of things to worry over. There’s the continual pressure to meet short delivery deadlines; the fretting over cost increases; and the concern for the overall health of the business, to name just a few. Carrying large finished goods or component inventories has its own unique set of business issues […]
Large Label Challenges
Achieving a perfect label application to a complex package can be challenging, especially for larger labels that cover more package real estate. This application scenario was no exception. There were two bottle sizes: 70 and 128 oz. Both were experiencing the same issues. Multiple factors came into play to hamper the application process, some known […]
