Over the past 15 years, OSRAM SYLVANIA’s packaging department has aggressively pursued source reduction strategies, reducing the thickness and combined weight of both primary and secondary packaging for all of our products.
Through advanced computer software and scientific methods, we have optimized packaging systems from primary through secondary to unit load, saving packaging materials, pallets, fuel, transportation, and warehouse space, without compromising shipping performance.
These benefits extend through the entire supply chain. Our lamp components and highest volume packaging raw materials are typically shipped in re-usable containers, and all packaging is printed using non-solvent inks.
As part of our corporate strategic sourcing policy, all national contract vendors for packaging materials and components are companies that subscribe to sustainable forest management practices. 95% of SYLVANIA packaging comes from renewable resources, and 90% of high volume packaging is made from post-consumer or post-industrial recycled materials. Virtually all of our lamp packaging is recyclable.
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We are packaging many of our CFL products using the Smart Pack -- recycled paperboard packaging with no plastic. Smart Pack packaging has resulted in 40% reduction of materials and 30% reduction in transportation-related air pollution since we can ship more efficiently and reduce our shipping needs.
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