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Why quitting cardboard should be a top priority

by Ashley Etling | Jan 31, 2023 | Packaging, Sustainability

If you’re anything like me, you recently found yourself basking in the glow of a beautiful holiday season. With a smile on your face you looked around a sitting room at your family members, felt the pleasant warmth of a full belly, watched exuberant children play with...

8 key takeaways I learned from retailers about “recycling” cardboard

by Ashley Etling | Jan 3, 2023 | Packaging, Sustainability

I’ve spent the last 5 years of my life working to eliminate single-use packaging. Cutting the use of cardboard was part of that goal, but most of my focus was on cutting single-use plastic packaging used in direct to consumer e-commerce shipments. This was true for a...

Sadly, holiday waste is only going to get worse this year

by Ashley Etling | Oct 6, 2022 | Ecommerce, Sustainability

The beginning of October means that the holiday season is just around the corner. And, with the holidays, that means an increase in shopping which ultimately leads to more returns, or in other words more holiday waste. We live in a world where ordering more rather...

Fashion’s role in collective circularity

by Ashley Etling | Mar 17, 2022 | Sustainability

You can learn a lot about a society by way of its fashion. What, then, do these photos say? And how did we get here? One could highlight cotton’s role in the Industrial Revolution. The same would point out fashion’s role in industrializing countries, driving...

The 5Rs of reverse logistics

by Chantal Emmanuel | Jan 31, 2022 | Logistics, Sustainability

It’s said that 79 percent of customers view free returns as important, which makes sense when we think about reverse logistics as a driver of Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). Return policies give your customers confidence in you and your products because,...

Designing for an Ecommerce economy

by Ashley Etling | Jan 26, 2022 | Ecommerce, Sustainability

We now live in a digital culture. And it has fundamentally shifted the shopping and packaging experience from the corner store (1900’s) to the store and the door (1990’s). Key examples include companies that have embraced the change – Warby...