Dennis Salazar
Dennis Salazar, president and co-founder of Salazar Packaging, Inc. writes on sustainable packaging for numerous green and packaging industry blogs and magazines including his own blog, Inside Sustainable Packaging. He is co-creator of the Globe Guard line of packaging products including their 100 percent post-consumer waste shipping boxes and the patent pending Globe Guard Reusable Box, which is designed to turn a used box inside-out creating a "like new" container. He is also the founding member of Green Packaging Group which offers green products and advice from five different sustainable packaging leading companies.
Chili's Chalks Up a Quiet Win For Green Signage
Chalkboard signs add a hint of green to Chili's locations. Read More
eBay's Reusable Box: Not Perfect but a Timely Idea
The new box that eBay has created for their customers to reuse is an excellent concept and it could not come at a better time, but it also shows just how difficult it is to create a truly green package. Read More
Moving Beyond Baby Steps on Sustainable Packaging
Often times we all overlook the easiest sustainability “R” of all and that is reduce. Packaging reduction opportunities are usually very simple to identify and almost always even easier to correct. Read More
ExpandOS: New and Perhaps the Most Effective Loose Void Fill Ever
That seems like quite a claim and I have to admit I did not believe it, but recently I received an egg, light bulb and a brick packed in the same box. Read More
Eco Friendly Corrugated Boxes – “100% PCW” is Not 100% Bad or 100% Good
Corrugated cardboard made of post consumer waste material is an excellent sustainable packaging solution and a critical part of a long term environmental solution, but it has to be combined with some basic product knowledge to be cost effective as well as performance effective. Read More
For Staples, Eco Friendly Packaging – That's not easy!
As a customer, I admit I love Staples but as a provider of eco-friendly packaging products, and as a citizen of the earth, they are very disappointing. Read More
Sustainable Packaging — At What Cost?
Many people subscribe to the stereotype that being environmentally responsible carries a hefty price tag. A recent leap of faith into offering a new green packaging product, however, revealed that sustainable packaging doesn't always have to cost more. Read More
Sustainable Packaging: Cost vs. Price
Manufacturers and their shareholders need to learn that moving to more sustainable packaging can and should be immensely profitable without an accompanying, unjustified price increase. Read More
Secondary Packaging — A Silent Threat to the Environment
While direct contact, retail and primary packaging has been receiving all of the attention and well deserved scrutiny of the world, secondary packaging, without much attention at all, has been quietly filling our landfills. Read More