environmental impact of linerless label systems
Understanding your environmental impact using linerless labels versus traditional linered labels.
- There are several factors to consider
- Waste generation
- Transportation costs
- CO2 Emissions
- Packaging
Waste generation of linerless labels
Compared to linered labels there is ZERO additional waste generated for our landfills.
If you use 1 million 4×6 shipping labels per year you will save about 1 ton of silicon release liner from going into your landfill.
Less trips to the landfill means less garbage trucks on the road, more fuel savings, less emissions from those fewer trucks.
Transportation Costs
There are more labels on a roll when you use linerless labels. About 50% more.
50% more label per pallet means less pallets shipped to you.
Less pallets means lower freight cost for you incoming linerless labels.
Less shipments to your facility means fewer delivery trucks on the road, less fuel used, and less emissions from those fewer delivery trucks.
These two reasons are plenty to consider linerless labeling for your shipping/distribution department but let’s continue.
CO2 Emissions – Brokens down at its most simple level
Linerless labels do not use the liner, so there is less energy to produce
Less raw materials in production, less processing & less waste disposal
Fewer resources used means less CO2 emissions used in production and waste management
How many less trees are used? It depends on you! How many labels do you use in a year?
Packaging
More Linerless labels per roll.
Less rolls used means fewer boxes are used to ship them.
Fewer boxes used means a positive impact on CO2 Emissions
You should notice a recurring theme above. Linerless labeling means less! This “less” is great for the environment.
Linerless Labeling also means more! We didn’t even cover that here, but you are more efficient where it counts the production floor! More efficient means more money in your pocket, and isn’t that the goal?
