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Transport Packaging Challenge
The Transport Packaging Challenge was designed to help partners adopt the waste reduction strategies proven most successful by other partners.
Transport packaging is packaging used to protect or contain materials and products as they are moved from one point to another—within or between facilities, to customers, or to the marketplace. Examples include boxes, pallets, wraps, slip sheets, bins, totes, drums, and bags. Items such as bubble wrap, peanuts, strapping, and other dunnage that act as filler between primary and transport packaging, or as packaging dividers, are considered secondary packaging and can be included in the Challenge. Transport packaging does not include boxes, bags, bottles or wraps that directly cover or protect the product and are not used specifically for transporting the product.
In all, 50 WasteWise partners pledged to seek methods to reduce the amount of waste generated by transport packaging. Selected goals of Challenge participants included eliminating unnecessary transport packaging, switching to reusable transport packaging, and reusing incoming packaging for outgoing shipments. The most common goal of Challenge participants was to work with suppliers to reduce transport packaging, reflecting the importance of building partnerships to reduce waste. WasteWise recognized International Truck and Engine Corp.–Springfield Assembly Plant for their efforts to reduce transport pacakging waste at the 2004 Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony.
What resources do you have to help my company reduce transport packaging
Visit the Transport Packaging Challenge resources page for useful Web sites, publications, articles, and trade associations
How do I join?
Contact the WasteWise Helpline at (800) EPA-WISE (372-9473) to participate in the Transport Packaging Challenge.