Insights on sustainable logistics & Plastic Resources

Your Guide to Sustainability, Industry Trends, & Expert Advice

Your Guide to Sustainability, Industry Trends, & Expert Advice

Stay informed and inspired with our expert-led blog, where we explore the intersection of sustainable logistics and the responsible use of plastic resources. Discover the latest industry trends, actionable insights, and eco-conscious strategies that empower your business to thrive. From innovative supply chain practices to practical sustainability tips, we help you move forward efficiently and responsibly. Learn more about the broader environmental benefits of recycled plastics from the Plastics Industry Association.

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An Extera team member in a high-visibility vest and helmet analyzes logistics data on a computer in a warehouse, using AI-driven software to optimize inventory and supply chain processes. This image reflects Extera’s use of AI to enhance manufacturing efficiency.

How AI in Manufacturing is Transforming the Plastics Industry

Stack of wooden pallets in a warehouse, illustrating the hidden costs of wood pallet breakage, mold, and maintenance challenges in supply chains

Why Wooden Pallets Are Secretly Increasing Your Supply Chain Costs

Custom dunnage solution with black plastic dividers inside a green industrial container, designed for maximum product protection during transport and handling.

Protect Your Assets: A Look Into Custom Dunnage

A dunnage rack with multiple blue fabric compartments designed for securely organizing and transporting parts; a visual example for explaining what dunnage is and how custom dunnage solutions optimize protection and space in logistics.

What is Dunnage? The Smartest Move You’ll Make in Logistics

Industrial setup featuring a compounding machine and pelletizing machine in a manufacturing facility, used for blending and forming plastic materials into uniform pellets.

Powering Progress: Extera Launches Compounding & Pelletizing Machine

Aerial view of a busy shipping port filled with colorful cargo containers and cranes, symbolizing global manufacturing trends and the impact of international tariffs on supply chain logistics.

Q2 2025 Manufacturing Trends & Tariff Impact on the Plastics Industry

An industrial facility showcasing machinery used in the plastic recycling process, including a conveyor system and shredder surrounded by pallets and storage bins. This setup highlights the scale and efficiency of sustainable manufacturing solutions.

Extera’s Plastic Recycling Process: Giving Materials a Second Life

Close-up of vibrant red plastic regrind flakes, representing raw material used in plastic compounding and the refining regrind process to create high-quality recycled plastics.

Compounding: Refining Regrind for Maximum Value

A handheld Honeywell device with asset tracking software displayed on the screen, docked on a counter in an industrial setting. This technology enhances asset management and supply chain visibility by streamlining tracking and logistics operations.

Scoutwise: The Key Tracking Software for Asset Management

A warehouse scene focused on supply chain optimization, featuring black reusable containers scattered on the floor and stacked in the background. A forklift moves a load of containers, emphasizing efficient container services in a high-volume logistics environment. The organized storage system highlights streamlined inventory management and supply chain efficiency.

How Extera’s Container Services Optimize Your Supply Chain

A stacked array of colorful industrial totes, including green, orange, and blue Handheld Totes (HHTs), used for organized storage and transportation in industrial settings. The image showcases the durability and versatility of these reusable containers for various applications.

The Versatility and Efficiency of Handheld Totes in Supply Chains

A forklift operator moves a stack of reusable containers into a loading dock, with additional containers visible in a trailer. The scene illustrates the efficiency of container leasing in supply chain operations, highlighting the practicality of leasing vs buying for scalable logistics.

Container Leasing vs Buying: What Every Business Needs to Know

Stacks of recycled cardboard boxes in a warehouse, symbolizing sustainable practices and sustainability in business operations.

How Businesses Can Turn Sustainable Practices Into an Advantage

Stacked metal containers demonstrating their durability and efficiency for industrial and commercial applications.

Does Your Business Need Plastic or Metal Containers?

Extera factory recycling industrial waste, with crushed materials collected in a large plastic-lined container. This scene underscores Extera's commitment to sustainable business practices and innovative waste management as part of their efforts toward a circular economy.

Sustainable Business Practices: Turning Waste into Opportunity

Stacks of industrial plastic waste ready for recycling, emphasizing post-industrial recycling as part of comprehensive industrial waste recycling solutions, also applicable to commercial and residential recycling needs.

Industrial Waste Recycling: Why It Matters More Than Ever

Close-up view of a black plastic container with a secure lid, stacked in an industrial yard, demonstrating the use of container lids for safe storage and transport in bulk material handling.

The Unsung Hero of Supply Chain Efficiency: Container Lids

Several black bulk collapsible containers are laid out on the ground in a warehouse, ready for processing or recycling and highlighting their versatility in the supply chain.

Bulk Collapsible Containers: The Future of Supply Chain Management

Bulk collapsed reusable plastic containers at the Extera Ohio warehouse.

How Can Reusable Containers Benefit My Business?

Moving plastic bulk containers in the Extera warehouse

Why Plastic Bulk Container Recycling is a Game-Changer

Image showcasing the facilities of JIT Containers and Extera, representing the beginning and how far Extera has come, overcoming logistic challenges through innovative material handling and recycling solutions.

From Startup to Leader: Extera’s Journey in Solving Logistic Challenges

Huge piles of different types of pallets at a warehouse.

Plastic Pallets vs Wooden: Why Plastic Wins, Everytime

Stacks of compressed plastic waste and other recyclables, highlighting the growing plastic waste problem and the need for effective recycling solutions.

Beyond Landfills: A Sustainable Plastic Waste Strategy

Extera at NPE 2024: A Recap of the Plastics Trade Show