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I feel there's an interesting business opportunity for sturdy, reusable, general-purpose transport boxes (out of e.g. high-quality plastic). You could add a dep
by RGamma 3y ago
I feel there's an interesting business opportunity for sturdy, reusable, general-purpose transport boxes (out of e.g. high-quality plastic). You could add a deposit-refund system on top so they are treated well.
This way one could also reuse filling material. Presumably you could also integrate an RFID chip for identification or maybe to reduce the need for paper labels.
- lockhouse 3y agoI feel like we could do this with food containers as well. It used to work great with milk bottles. There is a crazy amount of single use plastic used in this space.
- galleywest200 3y agoAs well -- how about we just slap the shipping labels on the box the item comes in? Why do we need to put a box inside of a slightly larger box? This is wasteful in my opinion.
- hairofadog 3y agoI always thought there was big efficiency to be gained from standardized shopping box sizes for packing into trucks, but I could be wrong about that.
- Nasrudith 3y ago"Display boxes" aren't shipping grade perhaps? Product boxes are usually notably far thinner unless they are already meant to bear a heavy load. Manufacturers of direct to consumer goods seem to generally eshew "display boxes" anyway, at least in my experience. But it could imply retail packaging and package packing for others.
- mbg721 3y agoThe filling material in a lot of stuff I've ordered is tailored to the size of the object--think styrofoam bricks with a laptop-sized indentation on the side--so there might be some additional challenges pairing reused filler with the right sized thing.
- moritzwarhier 3y agoOr additional challenges for the companies to comply with regulation, if there is any