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WHICH TECHNOLOGIES/INNOVATIONS DO YOU USE TO INCREASE
SUSTAINABILITY?
In the last mile, we use electric vehicles, bicycles and walking as
sustainable alternatives to diesel vans. We place solar panels on our WHICH TECHNOLOGIES/INNOVATIONS DO YOU USE TO INCREASE
buildings to produce the electricity we use. For our long-haul transport in SUSTAINABILITY?
the Netherlands, we use HVO, a fuel made out of used frying fat that has Our mission is to Deliver a Better World™: We bring supply chains into balance
90% fewer carbon emissions than regular diesel. with the environment and deliver protective packaging solutions that are
In international transport, no big-scale alternatives are available yet, so good for the world and good for the bottom line. Our in-the-box packaging
we use data science to improve our efficiency even more and to be able solutions can support companies to grow, protect the environment, and keep
to choose our means of transport based on carbon emissions too. We’re customers happy. Sustainable, cost-effective, and versatile packaging helps
investigating the possibility of joining pilots with promising upcoming businesses to thrive while showing their commitment to the planet. All our
alternatives, preferably together with our customers, the online retailers. papers are not only curbside recyclable, renewable and biodegradable, they
are also FSC®-certified, guaranteeing well-managed forests. With two new,
innovative paper converters, the PadPak® Guardian andFillPak Trident™,
Ranpak is able to offer protective paper solutions, which use less paper to
protect the products in the box in an improved way. Ranpak Automation, the
HOW CAN THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE BE IMPROVED THROUGH latest business development within the company, offers right-sized boxes
SUSTAINABILITY? to increase efficiency and reduce the transported and stored volumes of
Receiving a parcel should make the customer happy. Having a positive shipments.
sustainability impact makes a lot of customers happy. Imagine you
go shopping online: when you order, you are able to choose a more
sustainable transport and delivery method. If you do, you can exclude
transport methods you don’t want to support, like planes, for instance. You
see what delivery method is the most sustainable for your parcel, to your
address. And of course, you can choose to get all your ordered goods at HOW CAN THE CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE BE IMPROVED BY SUSTAINABILITY?
once, saving even more transport kilometres. You see the carbon emissions We strongly believe that paper is a fully circular packaging product. The life
you save with every click. So, of course, you order. Then your goods are cycle of our paper begins with wood, a renewable resource harvested from
delivered. You see that bike or electric van in your street – or you use responsibly managed forests. It continues through its relatively short but
your own bike to collect your goods. The goods are packed in sustainable useful life where it protects goods on the way to consumers. And after use,
materials, and the package is exactly the right size for your order. Goods paper packaging can be recycled into new paper. The recycle rate of paper in
with solid boxes of their own don’t even have an extra shipping box. Europe (86%) is very high since infrastructures to collect and recycle paper are
So, of course, this webshop is the one you revisit. fully established. A traditional linear economy sustains growth by consuming
new resources. This ‘take make-waste’ model extracts value from finite
resources, produces products without regard to harmful externalities, and
leaves unusable waste as a byproduct. Ultimately, the linear economy leaves
a growing set of problems for future generations to address – the increasing
DO YOU HAVE TIPS FOR ONLINE RETAILERS TO INCREASE THEIR scarcity of resources, global climate change, plastic pollution in our oceans
SUSTAINABILITY? and waterways, and the loss of biodiversity along with crucial habitats. The
Tip number one is decreasing the size of your packaging. This makes such traditional linear economic model is simply unsustainable.
an impact. The average parcel contains more than 50% air. That’s a waste
of package material, and it makes a huge difference in transport: 50% air
is twice as many trucks. Tip number two is to involve the consumer: let
them choose. It’s a win-win because less polluting transport or shipping
goods together helps the environment and is almost always cheaper as
well. DO YOU HAVE TIPS FOR ONLINE RETAILERS TO INCREASE THEIR SUSTAINABILITY?
As Ranpak supports the Circular Economy, we advise bringing the supply
chain into balance. As businesses look to improve the sustainability of their
operations and supply chain, using paper to provide effective protection
for products in transit allows online retailers to make their own business
models a part of the Circular Economy. The steady growth of e-commerce
over the past decades – and explosive growth in 2020 – exemplify both the
opportunity and the imperative for businesses to develop green solutions to
support the changes in consumer behaviour that will continue to become our
new normal.

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