Sustainability
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Layer pads, dividers and inserts: cheap cardboard in the right place
Most in-box product damage is fixed by a flat piece of board somewhere specific. The five inserts that solve the most common problems and what each one costs to make.
Ray Castellanos · 6 min
October 14, 2025Setting up a corrugated waste stream that pays for itself
Most operations pay to remove cardboard that has value. A staged plan from loose collection to baled fiber, with the volume thresholds where each step starts making sense.
Luis Barrera · 7 min
October 3, 2023What a bad bale actually costs you at the mill
Moisture, wax, food residue and metal are the four things that downgrade or reject a bale of old corrugated. Here is what each one does to the price, and where the money actually goes.
Luis Barrera · 6 min