The practive of using shrink-wrap plastic is pretty widespread in the building supply industry, especially things like baseboard trim.
It is single use and ends up in the land fill.
What are suppliers doing about this?

I would encourage the use of shrink wrap. As far as shipping materials and protective wraps go, shrink wrap would probably represent the smallest class of product that appeared on my build site this year.

And, it did a good job of protecting the materials from weather.

You can buy reusable products for the same job. Better than single use plastic.

Like what, for example?

Posted By KerryAll on 18 Nov 2011 11:05 PM
You can buy reusable products for the same job. Better than single use plastic.

Not aware of an alternative reusable product either.

Shrink wrap is easily recyled, any project LEED certified would want to recycle it anyway,

Our SIPs come shrink wrapped to prevent shifting and damage during transportation, the safety benefits are a great advantage

I guess we're not going to get to hear from KerryAll what the alternatives are.

As far as building materials on my job this year, the ICF block packaging wasn't too bad, even though the volume seemed interminable. Literally hundreds of large cardboard sheets. At least they all got recycled save for a few which were used as protection from muddy ground. The recyclers didn't want the wet, muddy ones, so they ended up in the compost pile. I think all of the plastic strapping would have gone into one garbage bag, had I been a better packer, but the recyclers didn't like those, either, as I guess they jam machinery.