| If you're worried about the longevity of the | | | | this are crinkled cardboard. |
| environment you live in, and if you're concerned | | | | 2. Packing tape - is made from polyethylene and |
| that the planet you will leave for our children may | | | | is crucial for wrapping any fright for shipment. |
| not be habitable and if you are motivated toward | | | | Currently, however, tapes made from natural |
| doing your own bit to help preserving it - one of | | | | rubber are available as an eco-friendly option. |
| the ways might be to utilize "environmentally | | | | 3. Package filters like Styrofoam based packing |
| friendly shipping" for all of your hauling needs. It is | | | | wadding - cornstarch peanuts can also be used as |
| one of the salient calls of the green movement, | | | | a green choice |
| that one of the most huge polluters and users of | | | | Small and Large businesses across all verticals of |
| non-renewable resources on the planet are the | | | | business are currently focused on minimizing their |
| shipping companies and their customers who must | | | | carbon footprints. The shipping industry is certainly |
| all work towards annihilating transport inefficiencies. | | | | no exception to this rule. They too are thinking of |
| They call upon us to move to replenishable | | | | doing their bit for the longevity of our planet by |
| shipping practices. Looking for a "green" options in | | | | cutting down trucking inefficiencies. In addition to |
| transportation is thus now a important concern | | | | improving their methods and practices, many are |
| for all companies interested in reducing their | | | | also performing novel research into new science |
| carbon footprint on the face of our planet. | | | | and technology that could pave the way to a |
| Environmentally friendly transportation can | | | | more eco-friendly future. |
| circumscribe two distinct parts of a hauling | | | | Denmark, one of the leading maritime nations in |
| operation. The first is the packaging of the | | | | the world, is already seeing its top shipping |
| package, the other is the shipping of that item. | | | | companies going green with environmentally |
| While the packaging industry has been under | | | | friendly freight methods. Renewable shipping |
| perpetual pressure largely from environmental | | | | seems to be the only way forward. Newer, more |
| organizations to perfect green packaging elements | | | | renewable energy sources have to be found and |
| and processes, the transportation companies have | | | | used while greater optimization of load distribution |
| had their own ideas. They have also been put | | | | and logistical operation will warrant that more |
| under the microscope for optimizing their utility of | | | | economic, eco-friendly, and sustainable dispatch |
| space, time and energy per shipment. | | | | options are available to the consumer. |
| The most important element of green shipping | | | | Peer to Peer shipping is another approach that |
| practices is the environmentally friendly packaging | | | | provides solution for logistical issues by creating a |
| of the shipped consignment. The critical element | | | | win-win situation for customers, drivers and |
| of using green technology in simultaneously | | | | transportation companies. The drivers get to earn |
| wrapping and packing is that it assists us to | | | | some easy bucks for delivering goods while going |
| consume less of the non renewable resources, | | | | their own way and the companies can refrain |
| and perhaps more importantly, actually assists us | | | | from hiring expensive shipping space with the |
| to reuse the material already created, keeping | | | | discounts being passed on to the customers. Peer |
| disposal routes clear. A quick check on the United | | | | to peer shipping is an excellent way of supporting |
| States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | | | | environmentally friendly freight by reducing the |
| portal shows that, during 2007, containers for | | | | requirement for overpriced carbon footprint fuels. |
| food products and other plastic packaging made | | | | It also usually provides faster delivery times. |
| up more than 39% of municipal waste of which | | | | However it is necessary to ensure that the Peer |
| about 1/3 was used again. The top offenders | | | | to Peer hauling company has necessary |
| among non-biodegradable packaging materials are: | | | | information of the drivers and can provide their |
| 1. Bubble wraps - these are a favourite materials | | | | photos and phone numbers if needed, as a safety |
| for packing weak consignments. However, | | | | precaution |
| alternatives to the offending item have already | | | | Green transportation businesses are thus |
| been created such as bubble wrap made from | | | | developing the stakes to do what they can to |
| recycled polyethylene. The green alternative to | | | | construct a sustainable existence on Earth. |