November 14, 2024
Sustainability in the Cold Chain Market
Prioritising Sustainability in Cold Chain Packaging. Sustainability is a growing concern across industries, and cold chain logistics is no exception. CoolBox Solutions are committed to reducing its environmental impact through innovative, eco-friendly practices:
October 22, 2024
Traditional vs. Innovative Chilled Packaging
In the world of statistics and supply chain management, packaging plays a critical role, particularly for temperature sensitive products. With the increasing demand for perishable goods, companies must decide what the right packaging solutions are, while maintaining product integrity and cost-effective production.
October 21, 2024
World Sustainability Day: A Call to Action for a Greener Future
World Sustainability Day, celebrated annually (this year on Wednesday October 23rd), serves as a crucial reminder of our collective responsibility to protect the planet and promote sustainable practices.
October 23, 2023
5 Effective Thermal Packaging Tips To Ensure Product Integrity
Prioritising Sustainability in Cold Chain Packaging. Sustainability is a growing concern across industries, and cold chain logistics is no exception. CoolBox Solutions are committed to reducing its environmental impact through innovative, eco-friendly practices:
October 11, 2023
Elevating Your Business with CoolBox: The Ultimate Guide to Revolutionary Thermal Packaging
Get ready for a transformative journey in the world of packaging! Introducing CoolBox, a groundbreaking solution that not only ensures unparalleled freshness but also redefines eco-consciousness in the thermal packaging industry.
August 24, 2023
Renewable Energy – Where are We at as a Country?
The climate crisis is undeniably one of the most pressing challenges of our time. The need to transition away from fossil fuels to cleaner, more sustainable energy sources is paramount.
August 9, 2023
What Is Climate Change?
Climate change refers to significant, long-term alterations to the statistical distribution of weather patterns over durations ranging from decades to millions of years.
July 24, 2023
Should Every Fashion Week Focus More on Sustainability?
Paris Haute Couture Fashion Week may be over for another year, but the fashion world is still talking about the glamour and frivolity seen on the runway. Whilst the star-studded guest list and celebrity looks may be the topics on everyone’s lips, but one thing we noticed was a distinct lack of focus on sustainability.
July 17, 2023
Current UK Soil Health – How can We Improve it?
It is clear that investment is very much required into soil monitoring to make sure that the biodiversity and biological processes that it supports do not further decline – this has not been a key focus until fairly recently but obviously needs to be as we move forward.
July 7, 2023
What are the Main Issues of Climate Change?
We’ve all heard of climate change and know it’s an important issue. But what exactly are the main causes of climate change? Climate change is a complex problem with multiple facets and understanding how our actions impact the environment is essential in addressing it.
June 28, 2023
How Does Meat Production Impact Climate Change?
Many of us enjoy eating meat and shouldn’t feel that by doing so we are directly responsible for climate change. However, it is important to be aware of the impact that meat production has on our planet.
May 31, 2023
What Can We Do to Try and Reverse Global Warming?
As concerns about the environment continue to grow, it is crucial for companies to take proactive steps towards reversing global warming.
July 7, 2023
Is Sustainability a Social Issue?
In recent years, sustainability has become a pressing concern for businesses across various industries. The environmental impact of our actions has come to the forefront, with the need to address climate change and preserve our planet for future generations.
April 27, 2023
What Can We Do as Individuals to Assist Climate Change?
Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing our planet today. It is a global problem that requires collective action from individuals, businesses, and governments. While it’s easy to feel overwhelmed, we must remember each one of us can make a difference.
April 20, 2023
How to Embrace a Plastic Free Life at Home
It’s amazing how much plastic we use in our everyday lives, often without even realising. For example, the packaging that encloses a lot of the foods we buy, such as bread bags or fruit bags. We often buy goods without a second thought as to the plastic being used.
April 8, 2023
What Is Earth Day and Why is it Important?
Earth Day, celebrated each yet on April 22, has been an annual event on the eco calendar since 1970. Even back then, 53 years ago, it was clear that action was needed to protect our environment, and this movement has only grown in strength since then!
March 29, 2023
Top Tips to Encourage Sustainability in Your Household
Sustainability isn’t just a buzzword; it’s an important lifestyle choice that can significantly impact our planet’s health. Taking steps to make your household more sustainable can help reduce your carbon footprint, save money – and create a healthier environment for you and your family.
February 28, 2023
Shipping Guide: Cooked Meats
Our latest shipping guide is all about the safe transport of cooked meats. The requirements for each type will vary but as a rule, all need to be kept cold during transit and storage.
February 16, 2023
What Are Sustainable Buildings?
As our planet continues to face environmental challenges, it’s become increasingly important to embrace sustainable practices in all aspects of our lives, including construction and architecture.
January 26, 2023
Transporting Raw Meat Safely
With eating healthily and cooking meals from scratch on the rise, we have seen an increase in the amount of people who need chilled packaging solutions for sending raw meat products. With this increase in demand, we wanted to put together some guidelines for ensuring the safe shipment of raw, chilled meat products.
January 10, 2023
The Health and Eco Benefits of Veganism
Over the past few years, the popularity of veganism has grown significantly. This can be seen through the increasing availability of vegan products in supermarkets and restaurants, as well as the growth of vegan-themed events, festivals, and social media groups.
December 29, 2022
What Is a Circular Economy?
The circular economy is a framework for systems-level solutions that address issues including pollution, waste, biodiversity loss, and climate change. In this article, we’ll discuss what it means, how it benefits the environment, and how businesses and households can operate this methodology.
December 23, 2022
Should Fast Fashion be More of a Concern?
Fast fashion has been a trending topic for a number of years now when it comes to ethical and environmental concerns, but the focus seems to have dropped off of late with other cares taking precedence. As valid as those are, this doesn’t mean that fast fashion is any less of a problem even with steps having been taken to mitigate some of the biggest issues, so we’re keen to keep spreading awareness of this problem.
February 28, 2023
Shipping Guide: Cooked Meats
Our latest shipping guide is all about the safe transport of cooked meats. The requirements for each type will vary but as a rule, all need to be kept cold during transit and storage.
December 1, 2022
Don’t Leave Your Milk & Yoghurt out to Develop a Culture
We’re having de-ja-moo as we’re here again with a shipping guide about dairy products…but this time, moo-ve over cheese, we’re covering milk and yogurts. We curd pack food goods in our sleep, so read on for the best advice on shipping your chilled dairy products – legend-dairy!
November 22, 2022
Do Our Shopping and Lifestyle Habits Have an Impact on Climate Change?
This is a simple question on the face of it, but not one with a simple answer. In short – everything we do impacts the world around us, so on that basis, yes, our shopping and lifestyle habits do impact climate change, but some more than others.
October 13, 2022
The True Impact of Rubbish Pollution on the Environment
Our environment has long suffered from the waste that humans produce. Humans are generating too much waste and cannot deal with it all in a sustainable way. Our landfills and oceans are overflowing with non-biodegradable waste that cannot be properly recycled, and we all see the impact of this in various ways.
October 10, 2022
Recycling at Home This Christmas
Every year, both in the run up, duration, and period after Christmas, so much excess waste is produced. We all love the shiny paper, the glittery cards, the plastic that goes with a brand new present, the batteries that power new gadgets and toys, but with all of this unfortunately comes a price that the planet ends up paying. Waste. Non-recyclable, non-reusable, possibly “biodegradable” (but still takes many years to break down) waste.
September 28, 2022
The Oh-fish-ial Guide to Shipping Fish
The latest in our range of shipping guides (see our guides to shipping fruit, veg, cheese and more here, tuna in to ensure you’re shipping your fish products properly.
August 30, 2022
Shipping Fruit Doesn’t Have to be a Fig-Deal!
The idea of having fruit delivered direct to your door is very a-peel-ing, but you want to be sure that any fruit you order arrives in berry good condition! You’re definitely going to ap-peach-iate a company that has thought about their packaging to make sure everything arrives in pear-fect condition, and at the right temperature!
August 22, 2022
Packaging Tips for Using Ice Packs
If you need to include ice packs to keep your food deliveries at a consistent chilled temperature, there are a few things you need to remember in order for them to be 100% effective.
August 4, 2022
The Rocky Road of Shipping Chocolate
Ahh, nothing beats the sweet, sweet taste of your favourite chocolate. Whether it be dark or light, plain or filled, truffle or milk, so many people enjoy chocolate that over 7.2 million tons are eaten each year (worldwide). To give an idea of scale, that’s the same as around 3.6 million small cars stood on each other, or 1.8 million medium sized elephants. That’s a lot of chocolate!
June 23, 2022
The Un-beet-able Guide to Shipping Vegetables
The latest in our guide to shipping different foodstuffs will definitely leaf you into un-chard-ed territories. No longer will your beans be green when they see their veggie mates arriving in better condition than they are, or your corn be playing it by ear as to whether it reaches its destination safely.
May 30, 2022
Nothing’s Cheddar than Shipping Cheese
We’re here to set your mind at cheese….we mean, ease, with our guide to shipping this delicious gouda dairy product. Don’t let it brie, make sure you have the right packaging and processes in place so that nothing is feta than the cheese that gets delivered to your customers.
May 18, 2022
What Is Greenwashing?
Greenwashing is the idea of making a product or a brand stand in a light that makes them look like they have less of a negative impact on the environment than they actually do. Businesses greenwashing their brand or products has become increasingly common over the past few years and has led to confusion from consumers when looking to buy products that say they are eco-friendly when in fact they are not, or not as much as they say they are.
May 4, 2022
Health & Social Impacts of Poor Environmental Practices
We’ve spoken at length about how different issues impact the environment, but what about the impact that environmental hazards also have on us, us humans. We know that different species of wildlife are becoming extinct, that the very genetic make up of fish is changing due to the micro plastics they are consuming, that our ice caps are melting because of climate change, but do we ever think about the health and social effects on our own population.
April 26, 2022
The True Impact of Landfill
We all know that landfill sites have a negative impact on the environment, the primary ones being greenhouse gases, toxins and leachate (contaminated liquids) that are generated and leach into our ecosystems as a result of landfill waste disposal. Understanding the impact that all of these elements, plus other, smaller effects of landfill waste, have on our world as a whole is really important.
April 4, 2022
Does a Circular Economy Always Lead to Sustainability?
The two terms “circular” and “sustainable” are often used together, but does promoting a circular economy really support sustainability? The answer is multi-faceted, and it’s important that those who wish to encourage sustainability look at all aspects of promoting this.
March 17, 2022
Could We do More to Aid Water Conservation?
Water conservation in the UK is a really important topic, as our ever increasing population uses more and more water and climate change continues to cause uncertainty as to how much rainfall we should expect year on year. As living costs also continue to rise, it is becoming essential for both environmental and cost saving reasons for households and businesses to look at how they conserve water.
February 24, 2022
Making the Switch to Zero Waste Living
“Zero waste” is a relatively new phrase in our ever eco conscious world but one that has potential to have a big impact on the environment around us. Attributed originally to Daniel Knapp as part of the Total Recycling movement, living under a zero waste ideology has been around a lot longer than we’ve been saying the words, but it has only been in recent times that it has become part of normal living.
February 14, 2022
Deforestation in the Nation
When we think of deforestation, we tend to automatically think about the problems occurring in places like Nigeria, which has the world’s highest deforestation rate of primary forests. We don’t tend to really consider places like the UK, but actually it’s surprising as to how much of a problem deforestation is here in our green lands of home and has been for a long time.
January 30, 2022
Why Soil Loves Cardboard
Soil and cardboard go together like wine and cheese; both different in their own right, but one really complements the other. Whether its cardboard mulch, cardboard in its traditional form, or a mix of the two, there are many benefits to making cardboard an essential part of your composting mix.
January 24, 2022
Eco Commitments Aren’t Just for Christmas
January always marks that time of year when New Year’s resolutions are made (and unfortunately also broken). Traditionally, resolutions tend to focus on a personal level around healthy eating, or exercise routines, or improving mental processes, but more recently people have also been making resolutions and commitments to helping the environment and the planet.
January 11, 2022
Conscious Recycling for all the Family!
The term ‘Conscious Recycling’ is becoming ever more prevalent in today’s society and one aspect of this is the challenge of ensuring everyone in the household recycles correctly. Whilst many people have the best of intentions, it can be confusing as to what can be recycled, and what can’t.
January 4, 2022
Is Carbon Dioxide Really a Monster?
We all talk about Carbon Dioxide like it’s the “Big Bad”, but actually that’s not true. Carbon Dioxide, aka CO2, isn’t a monster; it’s essential for life to exist, and every living thing on earth contains carbon itself. Not the black, sooty stuff, pure carbon, but carbon compounds which are formed from carbon and other elements.
November 8, 2021
What Can I Recycle?
Recycling’s easy, right! We all know you can recycle plastic, cardboard, glass – so just chuck anything made of those materials in the recycling bin and you’ve done your bit to help the environment.
Wrong!
Novemebr 8, 2021
Sustainability Around the Home
With Christmas fast approaching, we will all need something to wrap our presents in – but did you know, wrapping paper with glitter, foil or embellishments can’t be recycled. In addition, all labels and Sellotape need to be removed before even simple kraft paper can be placed into the recycling bin.
November 5, 2021
Set Goals to Obtain a “Zero Waste” Lifestyle
“Zero waste living” is one of the newer buzz-phrases circulating that is linked to more eco-conscious, environmentally friendly ways of working and living. Broken down, “zero waste living” is focused on the reduction of waste and waste prevention, thus reducing, and stopping waste being sent to landfills, being incinerated, or dropped into the ocean.
October 28, 2021
Science is Going Cool
Historical scientific studies have shown that corrugated board ‘thickness for thickness’, has similar K & R values EPS and Wool so, all we have to do is make CoolBox as thick as a wool liner or EPS to be every bit as good, So we did and CoolBox was born, The Kerbside Recyclable Cool Box!
October 28, 2021
The Squeezed Supply Chain
The world of packaging has gone mad since COVID accelerated the ecommerce world, this has created a huge bottleneck in the ‘supply and demand’ supply chain, crushing capacity; with many customers waiting 3 weeks to 3mths or more for their packaging/boxes etc, and likewise seen several prices increases in the last 2yrs amounting to almost 50% increase in raw materials and finished goods prices in that time – staggering!