| Cushion Pack© Carbon Footprint Reduction - This worksheet can help determine how much greener
your organization could be with a Cushion Pack© corrugated shredder. You may download the Excel spreadsheet here. |
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Values to Determine
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Cost Savings
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Carbon Footprint Reduction
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Collect Annual Purchasing Costs of Packaging Material
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$
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*
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Determine Value of Damaged Replacement Parts When Shipped via UPS or Fedex
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$
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*
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Determine Value of Employee time and expense in issuing credit and reshipping
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$
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*
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Determine unpaid claims by UPS and Fedex
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$
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*
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Identify inbound consumption of diesel fuel by distributor of packaging supplies such as bubble wrap, poly urethane, styrene, etc
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$
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*
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Measure average pollution of diesel engine per distributor to delivery at your facility
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$
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*
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Measure how cardboard is either recyled for sale as scrap and measure
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$
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*
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Identify dumpster expense of scrap cardboard or other packaging materials
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$
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*
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Measure pollution of diesel engine from plant to recycle center or landfill
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$
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*
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Attend a demonstration of the Cushion Pack Shredder, identify all sources of scrap cardboard that may be shredded to make packaging material for all depts
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$
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*
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Convert tonnage of cardboard to be recycled and convert to board feet of lumber
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$
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*
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Measure to determine if shipping damages are reduced by use of Cushion Pack
shredded cardboard
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$
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*
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If shipping damages are reduced, investigate the use of thinner cardboard boxes
to both reduce cost and reduce consumption in tons of new thinner boxes
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$
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*
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Convert tonnage of cardboard from point of tree cutting to cardboard plant or to cardboard sheeting plant to measure diesel consumption
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$
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*
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Identify cost of cardboard shredder operation, using 4.0kW motor with BTU cost |
$
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*
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CP440 is designed for 24 hours per day of operation, measure output of operator
per hour of operation |
$
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*
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Identify cost of operation of Jet DC-1100 dust collect based on BTU cost |
$
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*
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Use CP440 to claim OSHA Source Reduction Credits for those mandated by OSHA to reduce volatile compounds |
$
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*
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$ column will reflect money spent or saved.
* column reflects effect on carbon footprint.
Partner with MBA program at NetImpact.org for submission of study.
Download the Excel spreadsheet here.
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ProSource Packaging, Inc.
14911 Stuebner Airline Suite A
Houston, TX 77069-2122
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