Sustainable Recopacks Aim to Make Cardboard Boxes Obsolete

Rentagreenbox is sparking a revolution in the moving industry with an arsenal of sustainable packaging tools. Leading up the roster is the recopack. Made from 100% recycled plastic, the sturdy moving box comes in 3 sizes and can be used over 400 times before it’s recycled back into another recopack. Replacing the messy and unsustainable Styrofoam packing peanut are recocubes, which are made out of paper sludge (usually a throw-away by product of paper making), which can also be reused, or returned to the earth as compost when they’re done. Rentagreenbox also make a paper-based bubble wrap and a host of other useful packing materials, all of which are made out of some kind of recycled material. Even their dollys are custom-manufactured from used aluminum cans. This zero waste pack and move system can be delivered to your house (by biodiesel truck of course) only if you’re in the Orange County California or Los Angeles area at the moment, but the company is looking to expand nationwide.

[via Good Magazine]