FEATURE Packaging and Logistics
The solution to excessive packaging has arrived
M
illions of online orders each day mean thousands of tonnes of cardboard waste each day. There’s
finally an elegant solution to the overfilled vans that motor around our streets each day delivering mountains of cardboard packaging waste that pile up in the UK.
The UK is drowning in cardboard waste. UK online sales grew 74% year- on-year in January 2021 and with this growth comes a huge rise in wasteful cardboard packing. We’re all familiar with the experience of unboxing online orders packed with plastic, polystyrene and other protective materials to get to a branded cardboard box which may in turn contain its own
plastic packaging. It costs more, takes up huge volumes of space in delivery vehicles and has to be recycled, itself a costly process, not to mention a hassle, says packaging company My Little Panda’s co-founder Paris Michailidis: “Many of us find that our recycling boxes are full to bursting with cardboard and that our bin is overflowing with difficult-to-recycle plastic wrapping.” “Even recyclable cardboard still creates
problems,” he added. “When a tree is cut down, it takes 30 years for a new one to grow. With the world facing one of its biggest-ever environmental crises, we really don’t have time for that.”
Origami and bamboo to the rescue After searching long and hard to find
ways to create less waste in its own deliveries, Michailidis’s online eco- friendly company My Little Panda, has hit on a solution to packaging waste, based on Japanese origami principles and wrapping paper that is made of fast- growing and sustainable bamboo. “We manage to cut down on packaging and plastic wrap by 90% when posting a product. We are the first company in the UK to try it. The end of double packaging is here,” says Michailidis.
The solution works for all types of items, bar the extremely fragile. It saves some 80% of the space that boxed items occupy, enabling more deliveries per van and lowering congestion and emissions. “It’s a quietly elegant solution to a
growing problem,” said Michailidis. “This new type of packaging saves lots of time and means that you can be sure any product that you purchase from us will be beautifully wrapped in sustainable materials, and will be a gift that you will be genuinely proud to hand over.”
CONTACT:
My Little Panda
www.mylittlepanda.co.uk
22 February 2022 | Automation
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