Excessive and pointless wrapping of a small product in oversized packaging, heavily penalising the dimensional weight at dispatch and generating unnecessary costs.
Packaging produced entirely from a single material type. A shipment consisting of a paper carton, paper void fill and paper tape is monomaterial — straightforward in mass recycling.
Eco-friendly tape made from glass-fibre reinforced paper coated with starch adhesive. When moistened with water, it immediately bonds permanently into the fibre structure of the carton.
Contract packaging outsourced to an external company. It typically involves repacking bulk goods into individual units, creating promotional bundles or applying labels.
An outsourced logistics service where an operator (e.g. a 3PL warehouse) takes over the entire process of storing, picking, packing and shipping goods on behalf of the online store. The store focuses solely on selling.