Cardboard Boxes Recycling Packaging Business Plan Paper How does cardboard boxes affect the environment? ( Especially since online retail)This assignment i

Cardboard Boxes Recycling Packaging Business Plan Paper How does cardboard boxes affect the environment? ( Especially since online retail)This assignment is the intro of a business plan. Our business idea is to create savings for companies by outsourcing their recycling methods, and reusing packaging materials for resale via recycling.( I will attach the power point presentation) In the Intro you basically have to explain why remaking cardboard boxes from recycle material is better than creating brand new boxes. I already found some facts online ( They are in the power point). Eco-Board Recycling
One Box at a Time
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100 billion cardboard boxes are produced in the U.S.
165 billion packages are shipped
Annual
Environmental
Impact
This equates to about 1 billion trees
80% off all products sold in U.S. are packaged in
cardboards.
850 millions tons of cardboard are thrown away
Since 2017, 300 thousand fewer tons of
cardboard are recycled each year in the U.S.
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Eco-Board Consulting
Waste Management Consulting Group
Create savings for companies by
outsourcing their recycling
methods, and reusing packaging
materials for resale via recycling.
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Market Sector
• Waste Management & Recycling
Target
• Amazon
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Consulting
• Walmart
Demographic
• U.S. Consumers
Scale
• D.C. Local Area
• Expand within U.S.
• Expand Global
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Brick & Mortar
vs.
Ecommerce
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Manufactured
Shipped
Received by Retailer
Recycled
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Eco-Board Consulting Services
Create company specific sustainability plans
Implement sustainability efforts
Engage employees
Recycle to save energy and save money
Reduce clients global waste impact
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75% recycled material
Recycling
Cardboard
14 days to transform
cardboard
Saves 24% of energy
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REUSE
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SUPPLY CHAIN
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SUPPLY CHAIN USING E.B.C.
Customer
Places
Order
Amazon
Processes
Customer
Amazon
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Recycles
Recreates
Amazon
Reuses
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• Emphasize Eco-Board Product & Services
Marketing
Goals
• Positive Impact on Environment
• Customer Relations
• Focus on E-commerce
• Social media
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SWOT ANALYSIS
Strengths
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Less environmental waste
Higher recycling rates
Educate the public
Opportunities
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Partnerships
E-commerce
Expansion
Weakness
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Resources
Viability
Brand recognition
Threats
? Incentivizing
? Reusable packaging
? Competitors
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Competitive Analysis
Market Strategy
Mix of Service
$14.5 billion in revenue in 2017
20 million customers in the U.S. and Canada
95 Material Recovery facilities
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Marketing Strategy
Media
#ecoboard
Events
National Recycling Day
Promotional Products
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Sponsorships
Private
Federal Government
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Most popular online stores in the U.S. (2018), by e-commerce net sales
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Why Cardboard? Why not
plastic?
Finances
• $4,000 to recycle one ton of plastic
• $20 to recycle one ton of
cardboard
• EPA Statistic 39,920 Tons of
Cardboard
• 14,680 tons of plastic produced
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Gross Profit
Gross Profit
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Operating Expense
Operating Expense
Global Expansion
Growth Strategy
Federal Government
Relations
Product Diversification
Eco-Board Educates
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#Ecoboardtogether
One Box at a Time
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