Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Green Shoebox

"After spending 21 months studying box fabrication and shipping, Fuseproject realized that any improvement to that already lean system would merely be incremental. So instead, the "clever little bag" combines the two packaging components of any shoe sale--the bag and the box--with high-tech ingenuity.  The bag tightly wraps an interior cardboard scaffolding--giving it shape and reducing cardboard use by 65%. Moreover, without that shiny box exterior, there's no laminated cardboard (which interferes with recycling). There's no tissue paper inside. And there's no throw-away plastic bag. The bag itself is made of recycled PET" http://www.fastcompany.com/1614807/puma-and-yves-behar-unveil-super-green-shoebox-replacement