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Composters Don't Want Your Packaging, Especially Your Bioplastic

Jan 27th 2021

Composters Don't Want Your Packaging, Especially Your Bioplastic EcoEnclose operates with a well researched and thought out Sustainable Packaging Framework that has helped us develop a line … read more

Why Landfill Diversion Is So Important

Jan 14th 2021

Why Landfill Diversion Is So Important | Getting Away From Landfills Eco oriented companies (like ours) talk a lot about ensuring their products and packaging does not end up in the landfill. … read more

Carbon Free Shipping With Cloverly

Jan 11th 2021

Carbon Free Shipping With Cloverly | New Partnership with Cloverly EcoEnclose is thrilled to announce our new partnership with Cloverly. With this new partnership, you can now choose to get y … read more

A Look Back on 2020 Sustainability Trends

Jan 5th 2021

Somewhere in the midst of a harrowing global pandemic, the many tragic events that have led to potentially hopeful tide change in racial and civic justice, seemingly relentless floods and fires, an … read more

Turn the Holiday Customer into a Lifelong Fan

Dec 2nd 2020

Turn the Holiday Customer into a Lifelong Fan With online sales skyrocketing, you may be seeing an influx of new customers. And we know it is hard enough right now keeping up with inbound order. B … read more

Getting Your Business Ready for Shipageddon

Nov 27th 2020

Getting Your Business Ready for Shipageddon Around 700 million packages are expected to be delivered this holiday season, 5% more than carriers are currently estimated to be able to handle. … read more

Black Friday and Holiday Shopping During a Pandemic

Nov 18th 2020

Black Friday and Holiday Shopping During a Pandemic Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving and the "biggest shopping day of the year" has been diminishing in its importance for some time. Sales … read more

Environmental Policies and Climate Action To Look For in 2021

Nov 17th 2020

Environmental Policies and Climate Action To Look For in 2021 Over the past four years, President Trump has made it painfully clear how little he believes in and cares about climate change. He has … read more

When it Sounds Like Greenwashing...Ask Questions

Nov 11th 2020

When it Sounds Like Greenwashing...Ask Questions We believe almost every person and company who pursues sustainability is trying to do the right thing. We also know that many companies are battlin … read more

Eco-Friendly Tips for this Holiday Season

Nov 10th 2020

Eco-Friendly Tips for this Holiday Season | Go Green This Holiday The holiday season will look different this year. You can already feel it. Usually by this time of year, the airways are brimming … read more

The Disappearing Myth

Nov 10th 2020

We often hear from manufacturers of new packaging technologies - such as 100% compostable mailers, mushroom-based packaging, corn-based foam providers, and new plastic additives. There are a lot … read more

Election Resources for Climate Voters

Oct 24th 2020

Election Resources for Climate Voters Election Day is Tuesday, November 3, 2020. You already know how important it is to vote! You may already have voted (if so, good for you!). If not, hope … read more

The Zero Waste Shipping Label...Now with High Strength Adhesive

Oct 15th 2020

The Zero Waste Shipping Label with High Strength Adhesive EcoEnclose is so proud to announce our newly improved Zero Waste Shipping Labels and Stickers, which feature a 100% recycled and curbside … read more

23 Sustainable, Black-owned Businesses to Support Online

Oct 9th 2020

23 Sustainable, Black-owned Businesses to Support Online Black businesses often face barriers in the world of business that many of us never even consider. Without even delving into the generations … read more

Big Oil, Plastic and Packaging

Oct 6th 2020

Big Oil, Plastic and Packaging There has been a lot of conversation about NPR’s investigative piece last month, How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled. It is an … read more

Why Our Decorative Tissue Paper is 100% Recycled

Sep 28th 2020

Why Our Decorative Tissue Paper is 100% Recycled There is a handful of custom-branded or designed tissue paper options on the market. Most claim sustainability traits, such as being made with FSC-ce … read more

Plastic Production, Cancer Alley and Environmental Justice

Sep 9th 2020

Plastic Production, Cancer Alley and Environmental Justice There has been so much critical attention given to our world’s plastic problem, yet as is illustrated by a growing body of research on wh … read more

10 of the Best Environmental Justice and Sustainability Books

Aug 24th 2020

10 of the Best Environmental Justice and Sustainability Books Looking for sustainability books? With most of us spending lots more time at home in recent months, there is no better time to do some … read more

The Psychology of Custom Packaging (and How to Utilize it)

Aug 11th 2020

The Psychology of Custom Packaging (and How to Utilize it)Does Custom Packaging Really Matter? If employed the right way, custom packaging can make a big difference for businesses of all sizes. What … read more

Plastic Rain and How To Reduce Microplastics

Jul 21st 2020

Plastic Rain and How To Reduce Microplastics Hint: To reduce plastic rain and microplastics in the environment we need to reduce, then reduce some more, reuse, and recycle (correctly and responsib … read more

Plastic Free July for Your Business : 10 Swaps your Ecommerce Business Can Make This Month

Jul 14th 2020

10 Swaps your Ecommerce Business Can Make This Month It's Plastic Free July! Is your business considering a Plastic Free Month (or a plastic free week, or even a plastic free day)? Are you lookin … read more

Plastic Free July: A Guide to Help Your Business Ditch Single Use Plastic

Jul 13th 2020

Guide to Help Your Business Ditch Single Use Plastic History of Plastic Free July In 2011, a group at the Western Metropolitan Regional Council in Perth, Australia decided as an office to … read more

Environmental Justice and the Sustainability Movement

Jun 23rd 2020

Environmental Justice and the Sustainability Movement With the current groundswell of the Black Lives Matter movement in the aftermath of the tragic murder of George Floyd, I - like many - found m … read more

A leap forward in sustainability: EcoEnclose & Living Ink announce strategic partnership

Jun 16th 2020

EcoEnclose & Living Ink Announcement Louisville, CO, June 16, 2020 -- EcoEnclose and Living Ink have officially partnered to offer Algae Ink™ to any company looking to print with black ink o … read more

How Eco Businesses Can Support Black Lives Matter

Jun 12th 2020

How Eco Businesses Can Support Black Lives Matter We, like so many, are in an era of reflecting, reckoning, and understanding how our efforts can help change the state of policing in this country an … read more

World Oceans Day | What You Can Do

Jun 8th 2020

Why World Oceans Day is Important | What You Can Do Why World Oceans Day is Important It is hard to overstate how essential our oceans are - they are the lifeblood of the planet. Th … read more

Anti-Racism, Environmental Justice, and EcoEnclose

Jun 7th 2020

Anti-Racism, Environmental Justice, and EcoEnclose Like so many, I am in the midst learning about, reflecting on and reckoning with police brutality and broad sweeping racial inequality that affec … read more

Supply Chain Lessons from COVID

Jun 1st 2020

Supply Chain Lessons from COVID-19 There has been no escaping the vulnerability of supply chains these past twelve weeks. This is true whether your biggest issue was that you could not get your ha … read more

COVID-19 Resources: Summary of Funding Opportunities For Small Businesses

May 21st 2020

Funding Opportunities For Small Businesses This piece was originally written on March 23, 2020. New funding opportunities are being announced and changed every day, so please check out our … read more

What does COVID-19 mean for the environmental movement?

Apr 29th 2020

What does COVID-19 mean for the environmental movement? Here are six reasons that our collective response to COVID-19 gives me hope for the climate movement, and six ways it causes anxiety. We'd l … read more

Earth Day 2020: How to Honor the Planet While Staying at Home

Apr 16th 2020

Earth Day 2020: How to Honor the Planet While Staying at Home Earth Day 2020 is shaping up to be an interesting one for a number of reasons. For one, April 22, 2020 marks the 50th anniversary o … read more

How Far We've Come: Victories Since the First Earth Day

Mar 3rd 2020

How Far We've Come: Victories Since the First Earth Day It can often feel like the world is falling to pieces. We are steadily fed negative information at every turn - about the environment, politic … read more