PUMA has designed the ultimate “flat box!”

The bag/box is made of a single folded sheet of cardboard in a resuable, recyclable PET bag, designed to protect shoes from the time they leave the factory until the customer gets them home.

Here’s how it works.

The “Clever Little Bag” will help PUMA reduce the water, energy and diesel used in manufacturing by more than 60% per year.

• Approximately 8,500 tons less paper will be consumed
• 20 million Megajoules of electricity will be saved
• 1 million liters less fuel oil will be used
• 1 million liters of water will be saved
• 500,000 liters of diesel will be saved during transport, and
• Up to 275 tons of plastic will be saved thanks to the replacement of traditional shopping bags with the lighter built-in bag

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To print or not to print, that is the question.

Ideally, you should print only relevant material, when needed, in the quantity required for the audience that will use it.

Why? You will achieve your business goals more effectively, you will reduce your costs, and you will reduce your carbon/water footprint. No longer is energy wasted to produce, store and distribute unnecessary printed material.

Suddenly print-on-demand is a green strategy! Produce what you need, when you need it. Does that sound familiar? Actually sounds like the advice my mother used to give us when we were kids: “Take only what you can eat.”

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How do you get those prospects through the door? Feed them, educate them, and entertain them!

For this year’s Earth Day celebration, Grand River Printing and Imaging is hosting “Print Media and Sustainability” at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Henry Pollack, University of Michigan professor of geophysics, member of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and author of “A World Without Ice,” will be the keynote speaker.

Not only is this an educational opportunity showcasing the sustainability offerings of paper suppliers and print media providers, it includes a breakfast, Pollack’s presentation, a book signing, and tours of the museum.

Watch for more strategies to get your prospects to come to you!

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