Reusing, Recycling and Refilling
The scale of the environmental challenges is considerable. As individuals, it can feel that our efforts are going to make very little difference. The fact is that every time we make the effort to reuse our shopping bags, avoid single-use plastic packaging, recycle our waste or refill a water bottle, we reduce our impact on […]
Plastic-free Pledge
Glastonbury Festival may be the largest greenfield festival site, but it is still a working farm. Owners Michael and Emily Eavis care about the environment with a passion. Following every festival, considerable donations are given to Greenpeace, along with Oxfam and WaterAid. Over the years, they have implemented a number of initiatives to reduce festival […]
Boxes to Get Aylesbury Recycling
We all know that we should be reducing, reusing and recycling, but we need a bit of help to make it happen. We are looking to businesses, councils and other organisations to provide the resources we need to increase recycling rates. Aylesbury Box Company is delighted to announce a recent corporate partnership with Florence Nightingale […]
Square Mile Challenge
Coffee cup recycling has been a contentious issue over the last year. Whilst made from cardboard, the plastic finish and plastic lids make recycling less straight forward. In addition, few coffee chains provide designated recycling facilities and many consumers don’t use recycling facilities properly when they are provided. Do we look to the cup manufacturers […]
Recycling Trial
A few weeks back, our blog focused on coffee cup recycling. Having been brought into the media spotlight by Hugh Fernley Whittingstall, the question was raised about whether the cups should display the recycling symbol, when so few were actually recycled. Plenty of blame was focused on the leading coffee chains, yet we all have […]
Wikkelhouse: A Cardboard Housing Solution
As a robust and lightweight material, cardboard is the ideal home for your goods during storage and transportation, but could it be the ideal home for your family? Fiction Factory, a Dutch design company think that it can. They have invested years of research into developing a viable modular construction, made largely from cardboard. Possibly […]
Environmental Best Practice
Aylesbury Box Company is actively working towards the POPAI best practice guidelines. Our expertise in cardboard engineering techniques, design and manufacture, allows us to produce packaging that meets the needs of retailers, brands and customers, whilst minimising the environmental impact For the retailer, point of sale packaging needs to be easy to identify, open, shelve […]
