Shiny New Boxes!
So anybody paying attention in school will know that cardboard boxes come from trees. It’d be nice to think that Coillte have some farmers who grow trees that, instead of flowers, have boxes growing on them! In truth, once of the main components of cardboard is wood pulp. Which means, in essence, that in oder to get cardboard boxes, you have to go chopping down trees. And it takes A LOT of trees (and expertise!) to make cardboard. Trees weren’t put on this planet because God was bored one day … they make a necessary and valuable contribution to the air we breathe.
Which is why so many environmental groups are so vocal about trees being chopped down!
Recycled Boxes
The boxes that we offer at Premier Packaging are classified as “used”. Some of them will be brand new, made especially for a company that has sadly gone out of business; or the project they intended using them for never happened. Other boxes will have been used by Company A to send products to Company B. Company B have got and used those products and they’ve all these leftover boxes. Anybody who has tried putting cardboard boxes in their green bin will know how much space they can take up! So instead, we buy them and sort them. The boxes have usually been used for light industrial requirements: transporting bottle tops etc. Quite often there will be very little wear and tear on the boxes – so much so that they could almost be a brand new box! but we know they’re not, so we classify them all as “used”.
It is pot luck whether the boxes that we sell are plain or have some sort of logo on them. Quite often, if the boxes have been used, there’ll be some tape on them, or possibly a label. But we try to make sure they are as clean as possible. In any case, we take a photo of the actual box that we sell, which you can see in the photo gallery of each listing. We understand that measurements can be helpful (we favour the more precise millimetre measurements) but a picture can speak a thousand words!
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