The International Coastal Cleanup day took place on September 15, 2018. Organized by the Ocean Conservancy in collaboration with local organizations like ECO-warriors, this event started 32 years ago in Texas. It has now grown to include over 100 countries across the world and 800,000 volunteers. Direct Pack employees, partners, and family members participated in the…
Direct Pack and BOTTLEBOX® gathered employees, partners and family members to participate in the LA River 2018 Cleanup in Sepulveda Basin on Saturday, April 14. This great event was organized by Friends of the LA River, and with our 114 volunteers, Direct Pack was the single largest group of participants they have ever had. For 29 years,…
We are happy to announce that the use of BOTTLEBOX® containers keep increasing, and we are saving more bottles from landfills and the ocean. In 2017, we used a total of 850 million recycled plastic bottles, which is 15% more than the year before. Since 2011, when we started measuring the amount of recycled plastic…
The site Fast Casual.com just released a list of 11 menu trends going mainstream in 2018, and on top of that list is BRILLIANT COLORS. They are talking about bright colored ingredients of salads and pot stickers, as well as colorful drinks. That’s something we at the BOTTLEBOX® like a lot! Our colored take-out containers…
This past weekend our Director of Corporate Sustainability Andrew Jolin participated in the annual Coastal Cleanup Day, organized by Friends of the DUNES. They spent the day in Humboldt Coastal Nature Center cleaning up the beaches and dunes by the Pacific Ocean. The organizer reported that the most common debris on the beach is PET bottles.…
Using recycled beverage bottles to make our famous BOTTLEBOX® containers, we divert millions of plastic bottles from landfills every year. Since 2011, we have used 2.8 billion bottles! This little video shows you just how much that is, and what it equates to in terms of the number of cars taken off the road, energy…
Once again, we are increasing our use of recycled material to make our BOTTLEBOX containers. In the first quarter of 2016, we used 3.6 million pounds post-consumer recycled PET, which is equivalent to 158 million recycled PET bottles. That is 80% more than during the last quarter of 2015. Keep recycling those bottles!
Check out what Dallas Independent School District is doing for their students. A healthier school lunch is served in a sustainable BOTTLEBOX! The video features Restaurant Critic Leslie Brenner back in school. Recommended Products
The BOTTLEBOX prints is one of the hot new products recommended in the FSR’s Buyer’s Guide 2015. We are of course found in the sustainability category. Check out this link to read more (number 22). Every year the editors of FSR Magazine, who publish restaurant news for full-service restaurants, handpick the best products for chefs…
We’re all about making recycling attractive. As the demand for the BOTTLEBOX® containers continues to grow, we keep adding innovative, great looking take-out containers to the range. This time, we are launching 10×7” and 9×9” containers in four different prints. The prints are designed by well-known textile designer Kerry Cassill, and the containers are of…