Remember when receiving a UPS package and you had to dig past the polystyrene peanut shells to find the package’s content? That’s now a thing of the past because of air pillows.

Once the excitement of receiving the package wore off, you had to clean up the mess made from left over dust and the hundreds of peanut shells that were scattered all over the floor. 99% of the time the peanut shells were thrown into the garbage where they ended up in a landfill.

Have you now noticed packages are coming will with balloon-style packaging? These are also known as air pillows, or void fill packaging. Air pillow packaging is a cleaner and greener solution than peanut shell packaging. This is because polystyrene is notorious for not break down well and is being phased out rapidly.

When needed, air pillows are expanded with a portable machine whereas peanut shell packaging are always fully expanded thus requiring more warehouse space and increased transportation cost.

One box of air pillows (8″x8″ or 275 cubic feet) equals 20 bags of peanuts @ 14 feet/bag.

For more information on how air pillow packaging can reduce your shipping and overall packaging cost, click here. You can contact Pyramid Packaging Inc. by giving us a call at (847)-272-3400. You can also email us at [email protected]. Finally, you can fill out our contact us form here and a member of our customer service team will respond promptly.