Live the color™
Your future is looking Greener every day With your customers more concerned about the environment than ever before, with government regulations tightening and with retailers everywhere looking to make a contribution to the health of our planet, isn’t it time to Live the Color? At Be Green, we create and distribute highquality packaging products that are well designed, sustainable and functional. In fact, we’re a worldwide leader in the production and distribution of green packaging materials. We offer consumer, food service and industrial solutions. Our products are Cradle-to-Cradle™ certified, and can be turned into biological and technical nutrients upon disposal.
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Why Be Green? International concern over teeming landfills and poor waste management is no secret. As a progressive, socially conscious, for-profit company, we are driven to offer alternatives to traditional packaging, and to educate our stakeholders, employees, suppliers and communities about their impact on the environment. We think the time is NOW for everyone to do his or her part. And we’re committed to offering the world a simple way to participate through the responsible use and disposal of packaging in people’s everyday lives.
Be Green Packaging designs, manufactures and distributes Cradle to Cradle™ certified, tree-free, compostable packaging for the food and consumer packaging industries that is safe for people and healthy for the planet.
“ Sustainability takes forever. And that’s the point.” William McDonough
“ Waste equals food, whether it’s food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them
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from cradle to cradle. William McDonough
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Consumer packaging
Precision Production
Exact Draft Angles
We understand the importance of getting it right. If trim cuts or molds are 1/100th mm out of spec, a launch date can be compromised and costs can run out of control. Be Green has a proven track record of bringing products to market under pressure to deliver on time, within budgets and spec, all without compromising workplace safety issues.
Be Green can now execute draft angles as steep as an incredible 1.5 degrees, increasing design flexibility and ensuring you get the packaging that best meets your needs.
Environment Our patent-pending blend of plant fibers is Cradleto-Cradle Certified, BPI Certified, and Certified recyclable by Western Michigan University. Our pulp is Non-GMO Project verified as well and meets the demands and specifications of the worlds largest consumer goods companies.
Cutting-Edge Pulp Fiber Blends The fibers we use include bulrush, kenaf, wheatstraw, bamboo, rice and bagasse, all of which are abundant, cultivated and uncultivated crops that grow in the wild.
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Third-Party Certified Be Green Packaging has been reviewed and approved by an impressive roster of third-party agencies. Our packaging pulp has passed numerous audits, certifications and has received many awards including the coveted Cradle-toCradle Certification.
Professional Product Development From prototypes to CAD drawings, Be Green can execute in as little as 14 days. Production tooling is fast, reliable and competitive. From our current facilities in China to our new USA facility in South Carolina, Be Green has the international clout and resources to offer global solutions to your packaging needs.
Food packaging
Your customers care about what they eat. They believe healthy food deserves healthy packaging. That’s why we provide the nation’s leading green grocers and other food purveyors with compostable, tree-free packaging. Consumers also care about the planet. They are demanding alternative packaging solutions that will not clog landfills or pollute the oceans. By offering your customers sustainable packaging Be Green can help you build a healthy business.
Be Green Packaging offers high quality food packaging that is a sustainable alternative to plastic, paper and Styrofoam. Our compostable, tree-free food service products are composed of natural fibers that are rapidly renewable and do not contain genetically modified organisms (GMO free).
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Our Core Values Quality
Science & Technology
We manufacture well-designed, high quality, industrial and food-grade packaging made from annually renewable plant fibers at competitive prices.
We maintain and advance our product’s sciencebased certifications annually. We continually search out the best technologies to produce raw materials that are free of harmful chemicals and safe for the environment.We develop and enhance our product’s science and technology to be sustainable and evolutionary by nature.
Cradle to Cradle Mentality We are committed to considering the full life cycle of our products. Our packaging utilizes annually renewable plant fibers, recycles water waste, reduces general waste, protects the environment, and returns healthy fertile soil back to Mother Earth through the process of composting, what we like to call the ‘soil-to-soil’ process.
Commitment to Our Customers We offer the most thoughtful and transparent customer experience in the packaging industry.
Communication We provide a dynamic and open company culture that allows our core values to permeate our management team, partners, vendors and sales associates.
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Abundance From harvesting to manufacturing, transportation, warehousing and end-user customers, we provide an abundance of educational information, transparency, entrepreneurial opportunity, and leadership.
Community We donate our energy, time, and money to the communities where we do business so that our positive impact is social as well as environmental.
Be Green Packaging is a triple bottom line company dedicated to people, planet and profit. This philosophy is embedded in our mission, our goals and in how we measure our success. At Be Green Packaging, we strive to uphold the highest green standards to ensure product quality and performance. And we consider it a priority to maintain a beneficial presence in our local and global communities.
“ You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
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We’re committed to community At Be Green Packaging, we believe being green is simply a better way to do business. The company was founded with the specific intent to provide compostable, tree-free packaging that is safe for people and beneficial for the planet. At Be Green Packaging, we believe business has social, economic and environmental responsibilities to make a positive difference. We’re more than just a growing, global and green packaging company; we are also a progressive, socially conscious organization that educates our stakeholders, employees, suppliers and communities where we do business about the environment, packaging and waste streams. At Be Green Packaging, we believe making sustainable packaging means better service and smarter business. By using natural plant fibers, we can reduce or even eliminate the use of both forested and petroleum-based raw materials. We also reduce materials going into landfills and avoid polluting the oceans with plastic. Using healthy packaging is a simple way we can all improve our footprint on the planet every day.
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Co-founders Ron Blitzer and Robert Richman
To learn more, visit our website at begreenpackaging.com or contact us at:
121 West De La Guerra Street Santa Barbara CA 93101 United States +1 805 456-6088