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What to Make from a Cardboard Box 

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Recycling protects your planet, minimizes resources, and you can reduce, recycle, and reuse this. Reducing is basically limiting to what you need, and a good way for you to reduce different kinds of waste is to only use what you need, for example taking shorter showers and turning off the water when you’re done. 

Reuse is basically using something again and again. plastic cups along with water bottles are examples of this. Finally, we’ve got recycle, which is where you get a previous object, make this whole thing all new once more. Glass bottles, various cans, metals, newspapers, and the like are some of the ways you can recycle stuff. 

Leftover egg shells and food, and even poop can be put into composting means to help with this. A cool thing about this is that you can pretty much use this for a variety of different things! Not only can you throw stuff away sure, but there is also recycling, which helps make things exciting and fun. Educational crafts and other cool types of activities help to make recycling not just a suggestion, but something cool for everyone! 

Nature! 

A cool thing about cardboard boxes, is that you can use them for projects outside, especially projects involving nature. Collages, where you collect different things such as leaves, twigs, or even some rocks, or other unique items found in certain lo cations is great because you can take these treasure put them in a box and help to preserve those memories that you have. 

Another option is spider web preservation.  You can spray spider webs left behind with a gold color to them, using the box behind it to brace it, and then, spray the black part of your box with some hair spray, and then, put the black behind where the spider web is, pressing against that.  You can then pull it off, and then spray another coating of the hair spray on top of this in order to create a varnish. Once this is fully dried, you can then show it off, as it creates some great, wonderful means for you to definitely show off your treatises to your friends. 

Keep It? 

You can always keep the box, and then use it for something nice. You can keep it as a box to play with, and decorate it with glitter, stickers, markers, crayons, even glue, making this a fun little project. You can put it as a repository for toys and books, and through creative skills, kids can learn to get creative with this, and when they’re done, they can clean up, learning the concepts of cleaning up when they’re done. You can even just color and then create new areas that are unique. 

Other activities 

There are other activities that kids can make with this too. One of them is a puzzle. Kids can use puzzles to learn how to put different items and shapes together, to create simple and fun puzzles that everyone will enjoy. You can also create Halloween costumes that are homemade, something that kids can wear. 

You can also make a homemade TV set, simply by coloring the boxes certain colors, put a square near the front, and then, a kid can wear this like a TV, or they can play around with it.  You can also make popcorn bags, traffic lights, and the like with this. The thing about boxes, is that you can get creative with them, and here, we went over some of the best activities to get kids interested, and good ways to recycle.

Recycling Packaging Materials 101 

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When you’re choosing the type of packaging to use, you want to make sure that this is one that’s really good for the earth. There are a ton of different materials, each of which have a major impact on this. Choosing the right items can make or break a business, so make sure you know what you need to do to be sustainable before you get started. 

First, how long do these take to break down? 

This all depends, but here are some of the most important things to remember when choosing items. Below are some of the items and how long they take to fully break down: 

  • Paper: 2-6 weeks 
  • Cardboard: 2 months 
  • Plastic bags: 10 to 1000 years 
  • Plywood: 1-3 years 
  • Aluminum cans: 80-200 years 
  • Tin cans: 50 years 
  • Glass: 1 million years 
  • Plastic bottles: 450 years 

See how some of these take much longer than others? Many times, people don’t realize that there are so many downsides to using non-paper packaging resources for you to use, and you should, with that said, always look for stuff that can be sustainable, eco-friendly, and also good on the budget too! 

Paper and paperboard packaging

With sustainability, the key item for you to use is to focus on anything that’s paper, or paperboard. Beverages are usually the ones that contribute mostly to the packaging that’s made of paper, and more and more food items are going into paper packaging too. This is something that’s not only better for the planet, but also quite cost effective too. 

Both brown and white packaging are both very easy to recycle, you just have to throw it into bins that accept this. But packaging that’s been dyed or coated is a bit harder, since the coating must be separated, which is why more companies are shying away from this. 

Packaging Coating 

This is something that’s made directly from polymers, and this coating is great for making a package look a lot more glossy, brighter, and even smoother, and also protects your ink. Lamination is one that offers plastic coatings over packaging, making the appearance better, and protects the inner packaging.

Another popular one is aqueous coating, which is a kind that’s water-based, and typically is used for sealing ink. With the different kinds of finishes, this is the more eco-friendly alternative to lamination, but lamination is better for protection, as it is water-based. 

But aqueous solutions for coating are becoming popular, since it just washes off with water, and then, you can recycle it. Another one that people tend to use is UV coating, where it has a UV attachment to the top. But, in general, lamination is not as eco friendly as other means, because plastic is very difficult to recycle on its own, so you may want to look for the water-based, or the soy-based polymers too. 

If a paper or a paperboard product has lamination that’s petroleum-based, it’s not allowed to be recycled, because it can’t easily be removed. 

Recycling cardboard 

The process to recycle the cardboard and the paper products that you may have as your packaging is actually quite simple. You just have to separate them, and then, when it’s time to recycle, they basically un-bale everything that’s there, which is basically where water mixes with this, makes a pulp, and then gets filtered. 

Within this process, the fibers and waters are also treated with surfactants, and also other ink particles. Bleach and other items may be used. Some people also get lucky with soy-based items, as it doesn’t damage the paper as much. 

Packvertising: how Packaging Helps with Advertising 

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One thing that you’ll start to see is packvertising, where the packaging is basically an advertising and promo campaign. There are many different companies already using this. For those businesses looking to have promotional campaigns that span multiple channels, this is a good way to do this.

One good example of this is Audi’s advertising campaign. The goal of this was to aim the advertising at the AWD system that’s called the Quattro, and it’s one that shows how powerful it is for driving in all sorts of weather, including inclement weather.

The packaging was actually done with a type of package that fit it well, and had a nice stenciling to it. They also made a spray that’s water-repellent, so that you could put the words onto any sort of surface, and it was pretty cool.

They sent this packaging out to different dealers across the world, so they could make a guerrilla campaign that worked. Whenever there was rain in the forecast, they would use this packaging, and get people interested. They made it a red color, and also had the logo in white, which was really good to stand out in its own unique manner. 

Now let’s talk about another one.  Jewelry with concrete.  You read that right. One type of jewelry that’s started to form is called Concrete Jungle which was a popular song that Bob Marley composed, created a box that’s briefcase style with a look that’s patinated, along with elegant, creating a design that’s engaging and intense too. This is one that’s premium, and also offers a sleek green pain that’s ecological, and also has some gold embellishments there.  

This is one that’s good for unboxing, and it came with different types of accessories too. This packaging was so popular that it even got rewarded for being eco friendly, innovative, and also really good for positioning the brand. 

Another one is the candy industry. You probably see this a whole lot whenever you look at foodstuffs, but some have really set the bar quite high.

Dirty cows are one of them. This is a vegan chocolate vendor that has created a vegetable chocolate that’s purely made from vegetables. They do criticize even just exploitation of the cattle, and you see it with the sign that’s on there, and the letter o that’s there. This design is one that uses a white background with a satin finish in a black color, which is supposed to represent a cow.

The final touch is the chocolate berries that are peeled there, showcasing that this is an authentic and really tasty item.

There are other types of chocolate that have started to use this. with the different packaging that’s out there, many brands have to stand out.  Some brands have started to push for showcasing the aroma of coffee as well in lots of cases.

One type of company utilizes a powder blue coloring to this. They use a white typeface that’s got an italics on this, and is presented as alluring, fun, but also quite rigorous.  There are also different nutritional values and ingredients that are there, which are great for those looking to watch their health as well.  Having stunning photos of coffee beans and the different curls also created a particularly powerful image to this.

There are a lot of great ways for packaging to really shine and grow in tons of cases. A lot of times, people are not realizing just what kind of impact that they have, and what you can do with this too, to change the packaging.