Sustainability

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what we offer

Partnerships with sustainability innovators EARTHCRATE® and ROKBOX® are part of Icon's commitment to reducing the environmental impact of shipping & storing art

EARTHCRATE ​

EARTHCRATE is the most environmentally friendly one-way crate available in fine art shipping. Traditional crates are built from plywood & heat-treated lumber, with interior bracing from petroleum derived foam. At the end of the crate’s usable life, it ends up in a landfill.

Each patent pending EARTHCRATE is custom designed, hand-built, & professionally packed just like a traditional plywood crate, however, entirely constructed from rigid plyboard that can be curbside-recycled at the end of its usable life. What's more, it is lighter weight and less expensive than our standard international crate, without compromising the safety of the artwork in transit. A preliminary Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) produced by a third party indicated that building an EARTHCRATE in place of a traditional wooden crate can have the impact of an approximately 90% CO2 reduction.

Comparison chart showing CO2 emissions of earthcrate and traditional wooden crates, with illustration of a bee and artwork box labeled DNA, and green trees at the bottom.
Various cardboard boxes with DNA and Earth Creative logos, packing materials, and packing tape. Additional items include a bee, stacks of packing pads, and trees.

rokbox

ROKBOX is an award-winning crate specifically designed to reduce the environmental impact, risk & cost of shipping and storing art. Instead of chopping down tree after tree to make traditional crates, & then filling them with non-recyclable foams only to dispose of them after a single use, plastic ROKBOX crates can be reused up to 100 times depending on the model & do not necessarily require any additional single-use protective packaging within. What’s more, at the end of their lifecycle, ROKBOX crates can be fully recycled. In short, using plastic means we can “reduce, reuse, recycle” and thereby minimize harm to the environment.

Two large ROKBOX crates in a bright room with brick walls and large windows.
A compact, square-shaped industrial or electronic device with a metallic, ridged surface and gray and green accents.
An art gallery with framed paintings on the walls and two large portable display cases containing framed artwork, one with a woman in a dress, the other with an older man.
Three large gray protective shipping cases with green accents on a grassy field, trees, and blue sky in the background.

earthcrate 📷 courtesy: delaware national art co.

rokbox courtesy: rokbox + giphy