Plastic is getting harder to sell. Some retailers ask brands to cut it, and plenty of shoppers flip a box over hunting for a recycle note before binning it, so it’s worth thinking about the board and the coating, plus whether any plastic film sneaks in.
Our eco-friendly packaging boxes are made from kraft or recycled paperboard. Tray and sleeve boxes need no glue or tape at all. And window tie boxes can use an open cut-out instead of film.
No special box required, to be fair. Go with kraft board, drop the plastic lamination and use paper inserts rather than foam; then size the box to the product, so you’re not stuffing void fill around a 16 oz jar. We’ve written about eco-friendly packaging and consumers and sustainable packaging trends too.
Corrugated board gets recycled pretty widely too, see shipping boxes. Reusable bags are under non woven bags.
Going through the post? Kraft corrugated boxes are the plain, sturdy answer, brown liners with flutes in the middle, accepted in most curbside recycling, and your logo printed in one or two colors. For food that leaves the shop hot, kraft pizza boxes do the same job with vents for the steam (a pizza box that can’t breathe turns the crust soggy in about ten minutes).
Eco-friendly kraft boxes are the general range, cut to your product so there’s less empty space and less filler to bin afterward. For handmade bars, kraft soap boxes are the go-to, and they can have a small cutout so people smell the soap without opening it. Kraft and soap just look right together. Hard to explain, but they do.
A window nearly always means a film panel. If you’d rather avoid that, tray and sleeve packaging boxes show the product by sliding open, no film at all. Window tie boxes are the exception on this page since the clear panel is how the silk gets seen, but everything around it is paperboard and the film is only a small piece.
All of these print with soy or water-based inks. Curious which parts of your current box could go greener? Send it over and we’ll take a look.
Plain kraft and paperboard boxes are, yes.
Yes, just go with an open cut-out and no film.
We use soy and water-based inks.
Usually not by much. Kraft often prices out close to standard board.
