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The packaging of 11-inch MacBook Air uses corrugated cardboard made from over 30 percent recycled content and molded fiber made entirely from recycled content. In addition, the packaging is extremely material efficient, allowing at least 15 percent more units to fit per shipping container than the original MacBook Air.

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Cisco has taken up a pilot program for a packaging diet, and will see a savings of about $24 million just by getting smart and rethinking the materials and size of packaging, and the transportation of products

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That is the question University student Sheryl Ng tried to answer in her video How Canadians Drink Milk (not an accurate title, since in Western Canada you can't get bagged milk.) We have covered the issue of milk in bags before; Collin wrote Forget the Jugs; Milk Bags a Hit in Canada, UK last year. Much of the world gets their milk this way, from China to Argentina to Eastern Canada. It uses 75% less material, and the bags can be reused as sandwich bags So why does it stop at the American border?

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A new line of paint from Dulux, using technology and practices developed over a three-year research period, has significantly lower impacts than Dulux's previous paints.

Dulux's Ecosense line of paint comes out in March this year. The Ecosense Matt has 50 percent less embodied carbon, 50 percent less embodied water, 40 percent less waste and almost zero volatile organic compounds when compared to the Dulux Standard Matt from 2008. Its packaging will contain 20 percent recycled content.

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"Newsstand copies of the November issue of CR come in a revolutionary new bag that simply dissolves in hot water."

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This is a beautifully simple example of brilliant green packaging design. It solves three common product design problems at once by (1) providing sturdier packaging for shipping shirts, (2) making it easy to recycle and (the best part) (3) having it transform into something sustainable, reusable and useful that works with the object in the package.

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