Marty Metro, founder and CEO of UsedCardboardBoxes.com, returns to Green is Good to share his empowering story as a former struggling entrepreneur who now heads the premier marketplace for used boxes. What started as a grassroots operation going door to door to service new homeowners is now a buyer and reseller of packaging from some of the world’s most renowned Fortune 500 companies. Since its beginnings in 2005, UsedCardboardBoxes.com has saved more than 500,000 trees (and counting).

“Nobody told businesses 100 years ago that they shouldn’t be cutting down trees — they thought it was a natural resource,” Metro says. “However, times have changed. We realized we don’t need to be cutting down more trees to make boxes. Why don’t we just use the boxes that we already have?”

Judith Albert, Executive Director at Environmental Entrepreneurs, or E2, joined the company during the economic downturn as a means to focus on sustainable ways to cultivate the job market. E2 is a platform for independent business leaders to promote environmentally sustainable economic growth. The company focuses on sustainable growth in the fields of clean tech, sustainable transportation and more, all in the name of developing economic prosperity while also reducing carbon emissions.

“It’s not the economy versus the environment,” Albert explains. “What we need to do is adopt policies that support a strong economy that is also environmentally sound.”

Tony Schultz, Vice President of Honeywell Turbo Technologies, and Steve McKinley, Vice President of Engineering at Honeywell Turbo Technologies, work to make fuel-efficient, fun-to-drive vehicles for consumers. At Honeywell, Schultz and McKinley spend a great deal of time focusing on turbochargers — devices that recycle energy from a vehicle’s exhaust to power a compressor that packs fresh air into engine cylinders. In short, the turbocharger makes the engine act more powerful than it is by reducing friction losses, improving fuel economy without sacrificing performance.

“The regulatory changes in the U.S. — where car manufactures have to meet an average fuel fleet of 35.5 miles per gallon by 2017 — will continue to increase through 2025 to 54.5 [miles per gallon],” Schultz explains. “Turbochargers are a big enabler to meet that [requirement].”