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Video: The UPS approach to eco-friendly packaging, shipping

By Padma Nagappan

Published June 08, 2012

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Video: The UPS approach to eco-friendly packaging, shipping

Arnold Barlow of UPS spoke this week to GreenBiz at the Sustainable Brands Conference in San Diego about how its Eco Responsible Packaging design lab works with customers to meet its green packaging standards.

Padma Nagappan is a San Diego-based freelance business writer with an interest in green technology, renewable energy and sustainability. She writes for a variety of online media, trade publications and newspapers.

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