Analytical service will quantify environmental sustainability benefits companies can achieve through reusable packaging
Thursday, February 09, 2012
At MODEX 2012, ORBIS Corporation, the leader in sustainable reusable packaging, announced a life cycle assessment based initiative; a service that will provide actionable data to detail a company’s environmental impact based on comparing packaging scenarios. The report will compare user packaging data using Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology and suggest potential opportunities for increased environmental sustainability. ORBIS is one of the first to bring such a process to the reusable packaging market.
The ORBIS sales team will work with customers and the ORBIS engineering team to complete a worksheet with data inputs about current practices. ORBIS will analyze the information and provide customers with the quantifiable impact reusable packaging made, or has the potential to make, on their business. By comparing past practices with planned or newly implemented practices, companies can measure the environmental impact of adopting reusable packaging in their particular application.
With calculations available through this new initiative, businesses receive a report that compares and evaluates energy used, solid waste generated and greenhouse gases used for different packaging options, and have the ability to identify opportunities for improvement. The use of LCA methodology can assist end users with data to make better environmental decisions using many methods of transport packaging like reusable packaging. Through this initiative, ORBIS can help customers with a proven, fact-based methodology.
About ORBIS Corporation
ORBIS Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Menasha Corporation. With more than 150 years of material handling expertise and 50 years of plastics innovations, ORBIS consists of a portfolio of businesses that meet the material handling needs of companies across many industries. ORBIS helps world-class customers move their product faster, safer and more cost-effectively. Using a proven approach, ORBIS experts analyze customers’ systems, design a solution and execute a reusable packaging program for longer-term cost savings and sustainability. Using life-cycle assessments to compare reusable and single-use packaging, ORBIS also helps customers reduce their overall environmental impact. ORBIS is a part of Menasha Corporation, the 3rd oldest family owned business in the United States. As a steward of sustainability, ORBIS is committed to a better world for future generations. ORBIS tracks and measure our own resource utilization to continuously conserve natural resources and reduce waste. For more information, please visit www.orbiscorporation.com, www.facebook.com/ORBISCorporation, or www.youtube.com/orbiscorp.
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