Look far ahead and aim high of honeycomb wrap and honeycomb padded mailer
Created on 2024.11.13
Something we wish more brands recognized:
Broad terms like “biodegradable”, “compostable”, “made from plants”, or even “recyclable” don’t always mean eco-friendly.
When used in isolation to describe packaging, they don’t say much at all.
Take compostable PLA poly mailers as an example:
➡️ They’re partially from plants, but the PLA in them is typically derived largely from industrially produced corn.
As a crop, corn isn’t necessarily more eco-friendly than the fossil fuels being replaced. Its production for non-food applications has driven:
→ Problematic land use conversion.
→ Excessive freshwater consumption.
→ Phosphorous and nitrogen runoff into our waterways.
➡️ LCA analysis shows that PLA actually has a higher carbon footprint than recycled and virgin LDPE.
➡️ Many brands seek this type of packaging as a way to minimize the risk of ocean plastic pollution. However, this material hasn’t been shown to degrade in marine environments.
➡️ While they can be made to be industrially or home compostable, they’re often heavily printed and contain adhesives and shipping labels.
While these additions may still allow the mailer to be deemed compostable, they also:
→ Bring contaminants into the resulting compost.
→ Make it harder for composters to sell their output and generate the revenue needed for their operation.
At Dongguan Yinaier Automation Equipment Co., Ltd., we go deeper when making decisions about what packaging solutions to develop
and offer.
We recognize that while no solution is perfect, we can continuously work towards our north star of circularity.
We also inform our brands about the tradeoffs being made. This makes decisions more complex but allows them to be more informed and thoughtful.
We focus on:
➡️ Make the machines produce Packaging with maximum levels of recycled content and post-consumer waste materials.
➡️ Make the machines produce Packaging that can be recycled, ideally back into itself.
➡️ Catalyzing the market adoption of novel materials whose production shows strong potential to be restorative at scale. Examples include Sway seaweed, paper derived from agricultural waste, packaging derived from food waste and more.
We recognize that novel materials are often unable to be recycled. They need market penetration that allows recyclers to invest in their collection, sorting and selling.
Because of this, novel materials often have to be designed for compostability or even landfilling.
At Dongguan Yinaier Automation Equipment Co., Ltd., we develop honeycomb paper die-cutting machine and honeycomb padded mailer production line.
For the alternative to plastic packaging. With the machines, people can produce biodegradable, recyclable, compostable packaging products. As people pay more and more attention to the environment protection, more and more the eco-friendly packaing materials applications in daily life, people are becoming more acceptingthe costs of honeycomb wrapping paper and honeycomb padded mailer acttually.
We dedicate our efforts to do something to make the world a little be better.
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