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With a widely-recognized need for a smarter, more sustainable package for car fluids, Scholle Packaging has taken the initiative of providing a bag-in-box solution that addresses all the special requirements of auto-chemical producers, distributors and end-users.
Scholle’s Carefully-Designed Automotive Bag-In-Box Solution:
• Uses 89 % less plastic than comparable rigid packaging, offering a substantial decrease of land fill waste.
• Efficiently stacks with 50% more utilization of storage space and transportation.
• Allows 99.9% efficient dispensing without surging, foaming, splashing, or any product loss.
• Offers exceptional durability and speed of use, increasing efficiencies for the end-user.
Automotive Industry Facts
• The total number of automobiles in the world averages 0.17 per adult.
• The automobile is the most recycled consumer product in the world today (95 percent of retired autos are processed for recycling each year).
• The United States has the largest oil pipeline system in the world, with nearly 200,000 miles of pipeline.
• Your car actually uses six different fluids: motor oil, coolant, power steering fluid, brake fluid, transmission fluid and windshield washer fluid.
• On average, Americans drive their passenger cars and trucks just over 10,000 miles per year. That translates to nearly 900 million oil changes.
• In one year, Americans use at least 1.1 billion gallons of oil in their vehicles. Much of this oil is reused and recycled.
• The world’s largest waste oil processing plant is located in East Chicago, Indiana. The facility recycles about 75 million gallons per year of crankcase and industrial oil and 20 million gallons per year of oily wastewater.
• One gallon of used oil provides the same 2.5 quarts of high-quality lubricating oil as 42 gallons of crude oil.
Sources:
Green Design and the City by Jia Lin
eHow.com
Kate Miller Wilson: http://cars.lovetoknow.com/Fun_Facts_About_Car_Maintenance
Purdue.edu
