Image by Getty Images via Daylife Some fear that a rotten economy will spoil the green packaging movement. The thinking goes, if people must choose between saving the world and saving their business, they’ll save their business. That’s true. However, the underlying assumption there is that green packaging is more expensive and therefore bad for [...]

In the first part of this series, I described five general types of void fill – Loose fill materials Industrial papers Flexible foams and bubble material Expandable foam Inflatable air pillows Now let’s look at the qualities you may need from your void fill material, and see how the various options stack up. Surface protection. [...]

Some types of secondary packaging material are far worse for the environment than others. One of the worst, in our opinion, is the old standby for void fill, polystyrene loose fill. Folks who use this material because of its (perceived) low cost and (real) speed, are, well … ecoblivious. Polystyrene is recyclable, but not easily [...]