Our new, environmentally friendly shipping packaging: mini prisms made of cardboard and kraft paper padding

Some things are so ingenious that you ask yourself: why didn't someone think of this before? That's what happened with our new filling material, which is basically the high-end version of crumpled paper. From now on, we will not only put our REA products in boxes for shipping, but also between cardboard or paper, or more precisely: between many small prisms made of cardboard - and where necessary also in padding made of kraft paper.

With the sustainable filling and padding material made of recycled paper, we are replacing the previous chips made of foamed plastic, which are not biodegradable, but are unfortunately often found in nature and, in the worst case, are mistaken by children for something edible. Light and heavy, sensitive or robust goods now reach their destination in an equally safe and environmentally friendly way - embedded in our new material made from 100 percent environmentally friendly recycled paper. Each individual piece of cardboard is extremely sturdy thanks to its prism shape. In their entirety, the prisms have excellent properties as filling material, as they are both cavity filling and padding at the same time: They nestle around the transported goods and interlock with each other thanks to their jagged edges, giving our products a firm grip so that they arrive safely and securely at the customer. They are also antistatic and dust-free.

For particularly heavy or sensitive items, we also use a patented folding and stapling process to produce our own protective and shock-absorbing paper padding from kraft paper. It has excellent shock-absorbing properties and is just as environmentally friendly, dust-free and recyclable as the paper prisms.

Once at its destination, all packaging for deliveries from REA can now be easily returned to the material cycle via the waste paper garbage can.

With this step, we at REA are continuing on our path towards greater sustainability, environmental compatibility and conservation of resources wherever possible.