What is Sustainability?
Project Objective:
Reduce the amount of packaging used on 6 top selling items for our customer.
Approach:
Redesign packaging to fit the product better, cut out excess material that was not needed.
Results:
Saved 66 tons of corrugated/yr = 832 trees
Also saved:
- 1.603 million BTU's = to the energy used for 18 homes.
- 311.314 lbs. of CO2 = to CO2 emitted from 28 cars.
- 484.171 gallons of water = to 1 Olympic size swimming pool.
- 4 garbage trucks of solid waste.