The seemingly small things add up!

We all know that excessive packaging is one of the main sources of trash in the world. Well if that packaging is not recyclable then that makes the problem all the more worse. Global Green recently posted an article on their website about a poultry manufacturing plant that recently switched to FBA packaging (Fibre Box Association certified recyclable boxes), though this might not seem like a big deal at first it becomes important in that it encourages other manufacturers to ship not only poultry but produce, and seafood in these boxes. The currently used wax cardboard boxes cannot be recycled and end up in landfills. The recyclable boxes at this company alone save millions of gallons of water yearly as well as the equivalent of 100,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from being created annually. The article also cites that 1.5 millions tons of un-recyclable wax-coated boxes are used annulay in the US alone each year. If these new FBA certified boxes were used in the US it would be the equivalent of taking one million passenger cars off the road and save 63 million dollars annually in trash removal fees. An amazing fact considering we are simply talking about cardboard boxes.

-Nick

http://www.globalgreen.org/press/135