What is sustaining packaging? It is a mode of packaging designed for reducing wastage and conserving important natural resources. This packaging design includes 3 main elements; they are: Reduction: Most of the time packaging gets designed much larger compared to what is actually required. The manufacturers do so to make their products look bigger than their actual size and making them appear more attractive to the prospective customers. This unnecessary increase in packaging size results in wastage. Reduction in the packaging size can help in saving large amount of plastic, cardboard, paper and other items required for packaging. Reutilization: A number of modern materials used for packaging cannot be reused. This means, these materials after being thrown away directly  [...]

Recapture and reuse of gray water is one of the best ways of saving water. Gray water, although not potable, is not gray colored either. There are several ways in which it can be used for household duties. It looks just the same as normal water when filtered. There are two types of gray water. There is the ‘In the Home’ gray water, which is water purified from the laundry, shower and sink. ‘Outside the Home’ is water run off from the ground and the gutter which has been filtered for reuse. ‘In the Home’ gray water can be filtered for reuse with the right equipment. It can be used for functions like flushing toilets. It may  [...]

Millions of plastic bags and other containers are used in one day. The huge output of plastic waste is the main cause for pollution of both water and soil. Recycling plastic bags is one of the best things you can do if you want to managing all the plastic waste in the environment. The process of breaking down used scrap plastic items is pretty complex. The basic method of making the waste scrap and plastic usable for manufacturing is used in recycling plastic bags. The usable material is recovered from plastic waste and is used to manufacture new materials. Plastic is comprised of a huge number of complex chemical structures and resins  [...]

The United States has close to two and a half billion Styrofoam cups used in one year. Extremely convenient, millions of coffee shops and other outlets serve their beverages in these glasses. However, there are a few questions that we do not ask. How are Styrofoam cups disposed? Are they bio degradable? Did you know that many cities are outlawing Styrofoam cups entirely in the food services? These cups are disposed to landfills, where they accumulate in mountains. These containers do not decompose for more than a century. How convenient can it be? To top it all, these Styrofoam cups can not be recycled cheaply and to much use. In fact, it is an extremely costly process. Styrofoam can not be recycled and made into new Styrofoam products. Only products  [...]

The aluminum can is the most used beverage container in the world, much more than glass, or even plastic. From soft drinks, to juices, to beer, all of us use these as a container for our beverages regularly; in fact most of us drink from several aluminum cans in a day. With so many aluminum cans produced day by day, recycling aluminum cans makes immense sense. It makes sense for the economy, it makes even more sense to the environment. It saves labor, it saves wastage, and it saves landfill and pollution. There are a whole lot of reasons why you should start recycling aluminum cans. There are innumerable benefits that come from recycling these cans. The amount of land area that can be saved by preventing landfills with aluminum cans is enormous, think of the output volume. The  [...]