Packaura
/ July 20, 2026
If your packaging carries a chasing-arrows symbol or the word ‘recyclable’ and you sell into California, SB 343 changes what you’re allowed to say — and the rules just got more complicated after a federal court stepped in. This guide walks through what the law
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Packaura
/ July 20, 2026
When most teams evaluate packaging, they compare unit price and stop there: box A costs 12 cents more than box B, so box B wins. That comparison misses almost everything that actually determines whether a packaging choice makes or loses you money — dimensional weight
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Packaura
/ July 20, 2026
Apparel brands ship a lot of poly bags, and most of them are virgin plastic that ends up in a landfill within days of the customer opening the box. Switching to recycled or compostable mailers is one of the highest-impact, lowest-effort sustainability moves a clothing
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Packaura
/ July 19, 2026
Every growing ecommerce or product business hits the same question: stick with generic stock boxes and mailers, or invest in custom packaging with your own branding, sizing, and inserts? The honest answer is that custom packaging isn’t automatically better — it’s a math problem first
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Packaura
/ July 19, 2026
Shipping perishable food or beverages sustainably sounds simple until you actually try it. EPS foam coolers keep temperature reliably but are getting banned or restricted in a growing list of states, while some “eco” alternatives fall apart in transit or fail to hold temperature long
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Packaura
/ July 19, 2026
Walk down any grocery aisle and you’ll see two very different metal cans doing the same job: keeping food shelf-stable for months or years. What most shoppers call a “tin can” is almost always tin-plated steel, while soda and beer cans are aluminum. They look
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Packaura
/ July 18, 2026
Pet food brands face a packaging problem that’s harder than it looks: bags need to block moisture, oxygen, and fat for months on a shelf, survive shipping, and still satisfy retailers, regulators, and increasingly skeptical pet owners who check the bag for recycling claims before
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Packaura
/ July 18, 2026
Switching to sustainable packaging feels like it should be simple: swap plastic for something greener. In practice, e-commerce brands have to weigh a half-dozen materials against very different cost structures, protection levels, and recycling or composting realities — and getting it wrong means damaged shipments,
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Packaura
/ July 17, 2026
Pick the wrong paperboard grade and you’ll find out the hard way — either your box costs more than it needs to, or it cracks on the fold, tears in transit, or looks dull next to a competitor’s product on the shelf. Most folding cartons
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Packaura
/ July 17, 2026
A vague brief is the single biggest reason packaging projects run over budget and over deadline. When a designer has to guess at your audience, your materials, or your must-have legal text, you end up paying for rounds of revisions that a clearer document would
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Packaura
/ July 17, 2026
A vegan logo on a box or label is supposed to be a quick trust signal, but the packaging itself can quietly break the promise. Adhesives, inks, coatings, and even the glue in a shipping carton sometimes contain animal-derived ingredients like gelatin, casein, tallow, beeswax,
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Packaura
/ July 16, 2026
Packaging is often the first physical touchpoint a customer has with your handmade brand, and it does double duty: it has to protect a one-of-a-kind item during shipping and make an impression good enough to get photographed and shared. For makers selling on Etsy, at
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Packaura
/ July 16, 2026
If you sell into Muslim-majority markets, or sell to brands that do, your packaging can now be the thing that stalls a shipment at customs — not the food inside it. Indonesia’s BPJPH is enforcing mandatory halal certification for packaging materials that touch food starting
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Packaura
/ July 15, 2026
Since January 1, 2026, Amazon no longer preps, bags, or labels inbound inventory on sellers’ behalf in the US — every poly bag, barcode, and suffocation warning has to be correct before your shipment ever leaves your hands. Get it wrong and Amazon can reject
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Packaura
/ July 15, 2026
Retail buyers and customers now treat sustainable packaging as a baseline expectation rather than a bonus, but “going plastic-free” isn’t a single material swap you can make in an afternoon. It touches your primary container, the closure, the secondary carton, the shipper, and the claims
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Packaura
/ July 15, 2026
If you ship into the EU, a new packaging law is about to change how you box orders. The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) — Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — puts a hard numeric limit on how much empty air you’re allowed to ship inside
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Packaura
/ July 15, 2026
If you manufacture, import, or place packaging on the EU market, the clock is running. From 12 August 2026, Regulation (EU) 2025/40 — the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) — requires every packaging type to be backed by a signed Declaration of Conformity (DoC).
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Packaura
/ July 14, 2026
If you ship anything classified as a hazardous material, the box, drum, or pail it travels in isn’t just packaging — it’s regulated equipment. The Department of Transportation requires that hazmat shipments go out in containers that have passed a specific battery of performance tests
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Packaura
/ July 13, 2026
If you’ve been comparing packaging suppliers, you’ve probably seen both the FSC checkmark-and-tree logo and the SFI green tree label on box specs, and wondered whether they mean the same thing. They don’t — and picking the wrong one (or not checking for either) can
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Packaura
/ July 13, 2026
Retailers and food brands are increasingly requiring their packaging suppliers to hold recognized food safety certification — and the SQF Food Safety Code: Manufacture of Food Sector Packaging has become the standard many reach for first. Achieving SQF Packaging Code certification signals to buyers that
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