6 Advantages of Swapping to Sustainable Packaging

3 Aug, 2021

What is Sustainable Packaging?

Sustainable Packaging refers to packaging solutions that have minimal environmental impact and footprint. This includes sourcing raw materials, manufacturing, transportation, usage, through to end of life disposal.

Just like our eco-friendly range Zirrro, sustainable packaging should have environmental credentials such as biodegradable, recyclable, home or commercially compostable and sourced from sustainable or recycled materials.

Advantages of Sustainable Packaging

1. Reduce your Carbon Footprint

Sustainable packaging promotes a circular economy, focussing on implementing practises that produce as little greenhouse gas emissions as possible throughout the products entire lifecycle.

2. Eco-friendly Disposal

Eco-friendly, sustainable packaging is biodegradable and recyclable or compostable.

TIP: You can set up specific bins with signage in your workplace to bring attention to the best disposal method - either recycle bin, commercial compost or let your customers know what they can compost at home!

3. Increased Availability

The rise in demand for eco-friendly, sustainable packaging has increased the range now available. There is an eco-friendly version to almost every plastic counterpart! 

4. Improves your Brand Image

Today customers care about the impact they are having on the environment. Showing you are doing your part for the environment becomes a part of your brand identity and messaging, which can create brand loyalty and also attract new customers.

Sustainable, eco-friendly packaging can also be branded just the way to like it. Perfect the design and you will have a streamlined branding story throughout all of your products.

5. Increased Customer Satisfaction

When customers see that it is much easier to recycle or dispose of the packaging for your products, they will feel better about buying them. 

6. Reducing Plastic Consumption

We all know how damaging plastics are to our earth. 

Plastic manufacturing depletes non-renewable natural resources, litters our waterways and oceans, and releases toxins when it ends up in landfills. This all contributes to global climate change. 

Swapping to eco-friendly packaging and reducing plastic consumption will lessen the demand and keep our earth happy and healthy for the future.

At O’Kelly we are committed to helping you leverage these critical points with our Zirrro range of eco-friendly packaging solutions. 

We pride ourselves on our industry knowledge and customer experience to help you create a sustainable and eco-friendly packaging approach, that boosts your brand and products. 

Chat to us today to start implementing Zirrro environmentally friendly packaging solutions into your business!