Dennis Salazar

Dennis Salazar is the president of Salazar Packaging Inc., a certified MBE (Minority Business Enterprise) company specializing in flexible packaging products, equipment and sustainable packaging solutions.

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Moving Beyond Baby Steps on Sustainable Packaging Design
By Dennis Salazar, July 01, 2010
Often times we all overlook the easiest sustainability “R” of all and that is reduce. Packaging reduction opportunities are usually very simple to identify and almost always even...
ExpandOS: New and Perhaps the Most Effective Loose Void Fill Ever Design
By Dennis Salazar, January 15, 2010
That seems like quite a claim and I have to admit I did not believe it, but recently I received an egg, light bulb and a brick packed in the same box.
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What's (Still) Wrong With Staples' Packaging Design
By Dennis Salazar, October 15, 2009
Earlier this year I wrote an article complaining about some very eco-unfriendly secondary packaging I had received from one of our favorite suppliers, Staples. Ten months later, Staples delivered...
Sustainability Solution: Recycled Waste Market Innovation Design
By Dennis Salazar, September 29, 2009
While I agree with the idea of improving the way we process waste, collecting it is not the problem, at least not yet. Our greatest recycling problem is that not enough people are doing it. But...
Is the Quality Bar Set Higher for Green Products?
By Dennis Salazar, August 21, 2009
In a recent blog post, Joel Makower asked readers why green doesn't also equal better. Despite the great progress I've witnessed in the packaging industry, I can only say that there is a long way...
Eco Friendly Corrugated Boxes - “100% PCW” is Not 100% Bad or 100% Good Design
By Dennis Salazar, April 28, 2009
Corrugated cardboard made of post consumer waste material is an excellent sustainable packaging solution and a critical part of a long term environmental solution, but it has to be combined with...
Sustainable Packaging - It Can Be So Degrading, or Not Design
By Dennis Salazar, April 07, 2009
Whether you are talking about composting, oxo-degradability or biodegradability, the options are numerous, the facts confusing and the claims are very often downright misleading....
Is There a Disconnect In Your Green Company?
By Dennis Salazar, February 17, 2009
As you move further away from the top people in an organization, the weaker and less important the sustainability message becomes, says Dennis Salazar of Salazar Packaging, who explains how he has...
For Staples, Eco Friendly Packaging - That's not easy! Design
By Dennis Salazar, January 12, 2009
As a customer, I admit I love Staples but as a provider of eco-friendly packaging products, and as a citizen of the earth, they are very disappointing....
Eco-Consistency: The Cure for Eco Skepticism Design
By Dennis Salazar, December 22, 2008
Whether you are a green-minded retailer selling to eco-conscious consumers or a packaging supplier as I am, selling to green-minded retailers and wholesalers, we all have a serious credibility...

Sustainable Packaging -- At What Cost?
By Dennis Salazar, June 15, 2008
Many people subscribe to the stereotype that being environmentally responsible carries a hefty price tag. A recent leap of faith into offering a new green packaging product, however, revealed that...
Sustainable Packaging and the Five Stages of Grief
By Dennis Salazar, April 13, 2008
Many in the business community reflect on the how the green economy will impact their industries with reactions reminiscent of the "Five Stages of Grief."...
Sustainable Packaging: Cost vs. Price
By Dennis Salazar, March 05, 2008
Manufacturers and their shareholders need to learn that moving to more sustainable packaging can and should be immensely profitable without an accompanying, unjustified price increase....
Secondary Packaging -- A Silent Threat to the Environment
By Dennis Salazar, February 03, 2008
While direct contact, retail and primary packaging has been receiving all of the attention and well deserved scrutiny of the world, secondary packaging, without much attention at all, has been...
Am I Retrainable for Sustainable?
By Dennis Salazar, November 29, 2007
The packaging industry has endured its share of new technologies -- PVC, corrugated cardboard and now sustainable packaging -- that put the fear into the market. But the goals of sustainable...

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