Utilize All of Your Assets:

Assets in your business take many forms: personnel, energy, water, feedstock, equipment, and packaging. Learning to view these assets as more than what they appear to be means considering the full extent of how you utilize those assets. Consider packaging: You order goods delivered in packages and expect to be billed for the goods. However, you are also paying for the package (not always listed on the invoice) as well. When first received at your loading dock or through the front door, the package is the first thing you see. Once you have unpacked the goods you need, the package normally loses its prominence. Here is your opportunity to out-think the competition. Make sure you can maintain the package as an asset either as something to be re-used, returned to the vendor for reuse and possible reductions in future packaging costs or recycled (sold) to a company which needs the, say, cardboard as a source of fiber or the plastic as a source of petroleum. If you receive goods in packaging which immediately becomes a waste, you are now forced to pay a second time to handle the package.

SI will help you address your packaging assets to promote maximum utility and minimum costs improving your bottom line.  

Publications of Interest:

  SI has been Invited to Present   at these Gatherings:

  DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation

   Member of International Panel of Judges

   Click on www.sustainablepackaging.dupont.com to view    a podcast of the awards presentation.

   April, 2008
   Wilmington, DE

  2007 Western Pollution Prevention Conference

   October 24, 2007
   San Diego, CA

  Paperboard Packaging Council Annual Meeting    & Strategies Conference

   March 6-8 , 2007
   Chicago, IL

   Sustainable Workshop Co-Presenter
    
   Sustainable Innovations was the highest rated session of    the annual meeting.

   May 2, 2007
   Boise, ID

  Paper Board Packaging Council

   "Best Practices in Sustainability for Plant Operations "
     technical forum.

   May 15-17, 2007
   Atlanta, GA