Environmentally friendly packaging - good idea or just looks bad.

[Rob D]

11 hours ago, Woodworks said:

Will wood chips do the job? If it's to stop the mills moving around I would have thought any lose material like chip will get displaced with an impact. Think I would be happy with chip as a packing material as long as long as it did the job and was not dusty. I always liked that corn starch packing that looks like Wotsits 

It would be dusty! Too hard to control that... the corn starch packing is an idea but you still have to produce the stuff and the bag it is in. The wood shavings are on hand and just get burnt.

[Rob D]

11 hours ago, PC Treescapes said:

What about shredded cardboard, had that in some packages and seems to be a good idea? Peter

Yep - we'd need to get a big old cardboard shredder but it's an idea - however I don't think we'd produce enough cardboard.

[Rob D]

11 hours ago, woody paul said:

would it make the package heavier than using bubble wrap or cardboard   

Yes it would but not a huge amount so we could only do this for UK orders. Oh and to answer Woodworks - the mills are pre assembled so with perhaps a couple of smaller boxes inside to stabalise they would not move around much.

[Rob D]

Wood shavings people have the upperhand at the moment!

 

PS I have a tenner on this with the general manager Laurence - he reckons the idea of using shavings will not go down well at all... I reckon it'll be a great way of reducing how much plastic packaging we use.

[Gary Prentice]

7 minutes ago, Rob D said:

Wood shavings people have the upperhand at the moment!

 

PS I have a tenner on this with the general manager Laurence - he reckons the idea of using shavings will not go down well at all... I reckon it'll be a great way of reducing how much plastic packaging we use.

You don’t think that the responses on here might be a little biased then?

[Rob D]

46 minutes ago, Gary Prentice said:

You don’t think that the responses on here might be a little biased then?

 

Quite possibly Gary but a tenner is a tenner right?

 

But opinion on myself seems to go both ways and a lot of customers love chatting to Laurence so I'd say the bias should balance out!

[Gary Prentice]

1 minute ago, Rob D said:

 

Quite possibly Gary but a tenner is a tenner right?

 

But opinion on myself seems to go both ways and a lot of customers love chatting to Laurence so I'd say the bias should balance out!

 A tenner is a tenner, and if you can stack the odds in your favour.....

 

To demonstrate the use of the mill though, you really need a mechanism that will fill their boots, underwear and hair of the person who opens the box though! 

[Rob D]

14 minutes ago, Gary Prentice said:

 A tenner is a tenner, and if you can stack the odds in your favour.....

 

To demonstrate the use of the mill though, you really need a mechanism that will fill their boots, underwear and hair of the person who opens the box though! 

I think just lifting the mill out the box will provide that mechanism

[CDMR]

Personally, I like the shavings idea though Lord knows I have enough of them already to dispose of. That said I think your customers will find it a PITA. I find that as much as my punters want everything to be sustainable they still want their life to be easy more.

 

If your main objective is to stop the mill moving about in the box, how about packing paper i.e. the thick brown type that bulks up. At least it is recyclable and is probably mainly recycled.

[Matthew Storrs]

I vote wood shavings, I agree it’s got to do the job but the kind of people who order a mill are going to have space to open outdoors and also dispose of the wood chippings. I’d feel more respect for you as a company that you were taking an environmental approach particularly if there was a note explains why you’ve made the change. I get pretty sick of opening parcels that come in a sea of plastic/polystyrene etc that I have to dispose of and I know will inevitably end up in a landfill somewhere.