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In an open letter to all grower/shippers and retailers the RPA outlined the facts about the safe use of Reusable Plastic Containers (RPCs) in the food supply chain. “Creating a…

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October 28, 2014

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For the 2008 PACK EXPO, Beverly Sauer of Franklin Associates, put together a presentation on measuring environmental sustainability as it applies to businesses. To see her presentation, click here.

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October 28, 2014

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The pre­sen­ta­tion out­lines the sus­tain­abil­ity ben­e­fits and busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties that are pos­si­ble when a reusable trans­port pack­ag­ing pro­gram is sup­ported by a reverse logis­tics cen­ter. The pre­sen­ta­tion includes infor­ma­tion on…

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October 28, 2014

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The “Use Reusables” cam­paign is a joint project of Alameda County, CA pub­lic agency StopWaste.Org and the Reusable Pack­ag­ing Asso­ci­a­tion with finan­cial sup­port from the U.S.EPA. Use Reusables has helped…

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October 28, 2014

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Reusable pack­ag­ing can pro­vide an effi­cient method to han­dle, store and move prod­uct through the sup­ply chain while also reduc­ing a company’s envi­ron­men­tal impact in terms of solid waste gen­er­a­tion,…

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October 28, 2014

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At PackExpo 2010, the RPA pre­sented its Fun­da­men­tals of Reusable Pack­ag­ing Work­shop to a group of about 70 end users and mem­bers. RPA pre­sen­ters Jon Kalin of Rehrig Pacific, Bob…

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September 29, 2014

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Cindy Doman is a packaging engineer at Herman Miller. She is also the chair of RPA’s new User Advisory Committee.