Supporting a Cross-industry Collaborative Project to Find Alternative Solutions to Pallet-stretch Wrap

Collaborate across industries to find alternatives to linear stretch wrap.

  • Project management
  • Technical packaging support
  • White paper/report writing
  • Design of the final white paper
  • Highlighted alternatives and challenges in a white paper, promoting circular solutions.
  • Demonstrated industry collaboration for scalable circular packaging solutions.

Objectives

Microsoft has committed to becoming zero waste across its direct operations, products, and packaging by 2030, including eliminating single-use plastic from its packaging by 2025. As part of this target, the company has undertaken a global effort to reduce the use of single-use plastic for servers and components within its datacenter operations.

This objective of the project was to bring together companies from across the industry, to explore alternative solutions to traditional and linear, single-use pallet stretch wrap.

With this project, we hope to spotlight viable alternatives to linear stretch wrap and promote continued exploration and development of circular solutions to drive adoption across industries globally. Ultimately, we want uptake of circular models to occur at a scale that will significantly reduce the amount of plastic packaging that ends up in landfills, incinerators, and the environment.

Alessandra Pistoia Sr. Program Manager, Zero Waste and Circularity, Microsoft Corporation