Packing Slip

One thing I didn't pack...

THE STREET OF SHAME

Malcolm McLean was a 24 year old truck driver.

leave the lower left corner screw in place but loose on top of the enclosure, detach the shipping bracket and remove the packing material

And we had a crate built for it.

But this story's not about eliminating it, it's about minimizing it.

And also a sample of your shipping plastic.

This packaging material provides heat insulation.

Bale

Remove all the screws connecting the bracket to the panel and then remove the bracket from the machine

It was called break bulk shipping.

The final step is, of course, the product, whether it's a packaging material, a table top, or building block.

Fossil fuels are needed for farming equipment, transportation, refrigeration, packaging in plastic, and cooking.

Ideas that didn't come out while you stare at the data will start to come out.

So far, they've packed up about 4,500 feet of ice cores for shipment back to the United States.

Well sometimes you have to stand packed to appropriate a work of art.

I fit into it, you fit into it, and a hundred years tops, my body can return to the Earth with no preprocessing.

Yet, after just a few weeks of use, you'll throw this material in the trash.

A major Fortune 500 furniture maker uses these corner blocks to protect their tables in shipment.

Needle?

A stitch in time saves nine.

Turn on the light. Needle, please.

Options?

The stinger.

The clock has two hands, an hour hand and a minute hand.

What comes from technical insights are making things more efficient or smaller or faster and sometimes lower cost and simpler.

The compass pointer always seeks north.

There's a wire.

Poison darts!

Lines.

Seamstresses?

We recognize this is a finite resource, and it's simply crazy to do this, to put a liter and a half of petrol in the trash every time you get a package.

And while, today, we can practically guarantee that yesterday's packaging is going to be here in 10,000 years, what I want to guarantee is that in 10,000 years, our descendants, our children's children, will be living happily and in harmony with a healthy Earth.

Cold Pricklies

Needles and pins?

Wait, what, what is that?

With no hands.

A stitch in time saves nine.

Convex Hull

Containment

Bandages.

And if you plot them, you must choose some system.

Ten stitches.

Needles and pills.