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Summary: Circular Transformation of the American Wood Packaging Industry
Introduction Introduction This post is based on an excerpt from Circular Transformation of the American Wood Packaging Industry, a master thesis I wrote for the International Institute for Industrial Economics in Lund, Sweden. The project focused on building economic and environmental cases for advancing wood packaging reuse and constructed strategies to achieve it. The article below […]
Producer Responsibility in the Wood Packaging Industry
Introduction This post is based on an excerpt from Circular Transformation of the American Wood Packaging Industry, a master thesis I wrote for the International Institute for Industrial Economics in Lund, Sweden. The work discussed in this article relates to the conclusions of the research: Developing a producer responsibility model for the American wood packaging industry […]
Minimizing the Impacts of Wood Packaging: A $20 Billion Problem
Introduction This post is based on an excerpt from Circular Transformation of the American Wood Packaging Industry, a master thesis I wrote for the International Institute for Industrial Economics in Lund, Sweden. The work discussed in this article involved developing a tool to calculate the economic and environmental benefits of optimizing wood pallet reuse. Readers will […]
Wood Pallet Reuse: Best Practices
Introduction This post is based on an excerpt from Circular Transformation of the American Wood Packaging Industry, a master thesis I wrote for the International Institute for Industrial Economics in Lund, Sweden. The work discussed in this article involved developing a tool to calculate the economic and environmental benefits of optimizing wood pallet reuse. Readers will […]
Survey: Circularity of the American Wood Pallet Industry
Introduction The results below are an excerpt from Circular Transformation of the American Wood Packaging Industry, a master thesis written for the International Institute for Industrial Economics in Lund, Sweden. This survey was taken in Spring 2023 to assess the extent of circular practices within American wood pallet businesses. If you are interested to know […]
Adapting to new U.S. Packaging EPR Regulations
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation for packaging products is rapidly being adopted throughout the United States. EPR is a type of environmental policy which assigns a social cost to the production of a particular product, and typically requires producers to pay taxes associated with the costs of managing these products in the most environmentally sound […]