We are all aware that many products are made less expensively in Asia primarily due to lower cost labor. We have seen and heard of many jobs moving that direction. While a fair amount of plastics manufacturing jobs have moved off shore, the loss is far less than in other industries. There are two general

Bubble mailers are great at protecting your more fragile items during shipping, but once used there are many creative things you can do to recycle them! First of course you can just reuse them for mailing another item, some have a built in double peal and seal which make reusing easy, if they don’t have

I’ve recently gotten more serious about recycling. I go through 2 – 3 plastic water bottles just about every day. And every day I place the empty bottles in a bag just outside my kitchen door in my garage. But what happens when that bag gets full? Do I know where my nearest recycling drop

So I come home from work the other night and my boys are playing upstairs.  One is holding an Ichiro bobble head doll and the other is holding 2 Bubbleman bobble head dolls.  The battle was on! “Dad, who do you think will win the battle?”  …Suddenly I am in “random thoughts of a packing

We all know that rules were made up as we went along in the Wild Wild West.  As we get deeper and deeper into the need for standardization of “environmentally favorable products”, we get further and further away from the truth, and it seems the rules are getting made up as we go along here

Seems like a simple question.  It is a packaging decision that comes up a lot and not just at the grocery store.  Neither is natural, yet both come from nature.  One comes from processing of wood or pulp fiber and one comes from processing of oil or gas derivatives. Which is better for the environment?