# Staples Smart-Size is Green Size

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/03/staples-smart-size-is-green-size/
- Published: 2019-03-29T16:38:46-04:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

At Staples, [offering customers more sustainable products and services](https://www.staples.com/)
is an integral part of the company’s sustainability strategy.

Likewise, the [Staples Smart-Size Packaging technology](https://web.archive.org/web/20170814193431/https://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/about_us/sustainable-products.html)
is one way the company is accomplishing this goal. As Earth Day approaches, this
is a simple way to cut environmental pollution. As well as reduce their impacts 
on the planet!

**_⌊Staples goes Smart Sized Packagaing⌉⌊Staples goes Smart Sized Packagaing⌉[Smart-Size Packaging](https://greenlivingguy.com/2020/05/kia-reveals-new-suv-concepts-at-the-2019-seoul-motor-show/)_**

So here’s the deal! Smart-Size Packaging (in collaboration with Packsize International’s
On Demand Packaging® technology). It produces customized packaging tailored to each
order.

Through this smart, sustainable initiative, Staples is reducing corrugated use by
more than 15%. Also it’s “void fill use” by approximately 60% across their entire
U.S. network.

**_This translates into a reduction in carbon emissions of more than 25,000 metric
tons yearly!!_**

So Staples also cut their plastic air pillow usage significantly. They also cut 
the number of pillows by 24%. Finally, the total weight of the pillows by 72% (between
2011 and 2013).

Staples Europe has also invested in a packaging technology called Jivaro. They do
this in the Netherlands, the UK, Italy, France, Germany, Sweden and Spain (across
12 countries to be exact). The Jivaro machine adjusts the height of the box to the
contents inside. Thereby eliminating unnecessary space by about 30% per customer
order. That translates into fewer vehicles needed to make customer deliveries.  
Consequently which (as we know) translates into less fuel and lower greenhouse gas
emissions.

Finally and as we know, Staples is making greener choices!!

PLEASE NOTE THIS WAS A PAID POST BY STAPLES!