Container Exchanger Wins Green Award from Supply & Demand Chain Executive
Submitted by: TR Cutler, Inc.
2008-12-30 00:00:51
Container Exchanger Wins Green Award from Supply & Demand Chain Executive
(OPENPRESS) December 30, 2008 -- Container Exchanger is an online marketplace that offers manufacturing and distribution businesses an outlet for procuring or selling used returnable packaging. The product offerings include many standard and common reusable packaging solutions, including but not limited to plastic totes, plastic collapsible bulk boxes, metal containers, wire baskets, and plastic pallets. Launched in 2005, ContainerExchanger.com has empowered companies to reduce packaging acquisition costs through access to used returnable packaging inventories and it has enabled companies to maximize return during disposal of their used packaging fleets.
The Editors of Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine have announced the Green Awards for 2008 and Container Exchanger (www.ContainerExchanger.com) is among the winners. The editors noted that, "Green" and "sustainability" have become new watchwords for the supply chain. Whether or not you believe that green supply chain goals are practical or attainable, and regardless of your feelings on topics like global warming and fair trade, the fact remains that more and more companies are beginning to incorporate green goals into their corporate social responsibility programs, and chief executives are looking to their supply chains to help meet those goals."
This year Supply & Demand Chain Executive recognized small, midsize and large companies that are taking steps to realize green goals and created the 2008 Green Supply Chain Awards. From the nominated companies the review panel selected 21 that stood out for their projects to incorporate sustainability objectives into their own supply chains or to enable sustainability in their customers' supply chain.
According to David Madden, President of Container Exchanger, "We are proud to receive this Green Award recognition by the editors of Supply & Demand Chain Executive." The editors gave Container Exchanger the Supplier Award Winner noting, "In addition to its goal of achieving carbon neutrality for its offices by the end of 2009, Container Exchanger offers its clients returnable packaging broker services, resell folding bulk containers, metal storage bins, plastic industrial totes, plastic pallets and used Gaylord boxes throughout the U.S. market. "Our clients, both buyers and sellers, use our services to reduce their own carbon footprints while simultaneously improving profitability," said Madden.
Returnable packaging reduces landfill waste and energy consumption when compared to expendable packaging. However, over time, as a company's product mix changes or a manufacturing contract expires, it may no longer have a use for the packaging associated with particular parts. In most cases, the packaging is still perfectly useable, but because they no longer have a use for the containers, the companies would have typically sold the containers to a scrap company, which would reprocess the materials, creating pollution, waste and additional energy use.
Container Exchanger acts as a matchmaker between companies looking to dispose of returnable packaging and those looking to acquire the packaging. It is true that transportation of the packaging between buyer and seller through less-than-truckload and truckload-size shipments consumes energy, primarily in the form of fossil fuels. But Madden believes that as his company's network increases in size and adds buyers and sellers, the chances of locating a matching set of returnable packaging close to a buyer increases, and that close proximity creates a financial and environmental impact through reduced freight costs and fuel use. Container Exchanger currently is running at a rate of 400,000 lbs. of repurposed material per month.
Container Exchanger
www.containerexchanger.com
David Madden, President
pr@containerexchanger.com
404-551-5599
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