2 Big Ways Manufacturers Can Reduce Waste

Manufacturers turn out an impressive amount of product,

junk, paper, and garbage. Recent cultural trends are

helping them focus their attention on reducing the

amount of waste in their lives.

Landfills are filling up fast with things that could be

reused. Production plants may be overproducing things

that aren’t needed.

The following are a few ideas to help manufacturers reduce the waste they produce. These are just a

few examples though and if you have any ideas, please post them in the comments below.

Packsize

Go with Packsize for your packaging needs. Packsize is a packaging company dedicated to protecting the

environment.

This packaging company has finally built the dream machine for reducing costs and reducing waste. They

created a machine that will single-handedly reduce packaging, corrugated costs, product damage,

shipping costs and much more.

What is this packaging company doing different? They are putting the power to decide the exact size of

your box into your hands.

Packsize machines allow you to input a custom size into the computer. It then cuts out a box to your

exact specifications.

Custom boxes

Having a custom shaped box will save you costs on air pillows, peanuts, and other packing materials.

They also help your product fit more snuggly into a box, reducing chances of product damage.

The smaller sizes weigh less, saving you money in shipping every year. The more compact sizes also

allow you to fit more products onto the truck.

Your customers complain less because of the excessive girth of the box. Little storage space is needed to

place the machines and supplies.

The best part is that this packaging company is helping manufactures reduce their waste. The smaller

boxes they produce, the less corrugated waste that goes in the landfills.

When companies produce or ship on a massive scale—like Staples, Amazon, or Dell—they reduce their

addition to the landfills by significant amounts every year. How can you say no to those benefits?

Companies like Staples have jumped on board with this idea. More and more manufacturing plants are

converting to this packaging company and its ideals every day.

Packaging isn’t the only problem though. Large companies pound out tens of thousands of paper

products every year.

Email Marketing

Companies should turn to email marketing as often

as possible. How often do people actually look at

paper ads and how much more personal is an

email?

How many paper ads do they receive in their mail

from day-to-day? Although there is a conversion

statistic for how much conversion a company receives from these ads, how much does that rate

decrease the more and more people use it?

Clutter never helped anyone sell anything; you have to stand out in a different way. Get into email

marketing to get the same conversion rate as your paper mail marketing and save a few bucks on the

materials.

Reducing your packaging and papering will help you save money, space, and the environment. Become a

better steward of the world around you and your financial situation by taking advantage of your

technological opportunities.

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