ecoSHIELD single-use powder-free nitrile gloves make the workplace greener. Even better, the ecoSHIELD gloves will probably prove to be more economical than standard gloves. Simply having 150 gloves in the box (as opposed to 100) brings significant savings in packaging, to the extent that the equivalent of a half a tree is saved for every million gloves produced. Additionally the use of recycled cardboard reduces CO² emissions by half. The absence of heavy metals in the ink along with minimal printing on the packaging facilitates the de-inking stage, which is possibly the most polluting part of the recycling process; and when taking into account the savings on storage space, packaging waste, fewer deliveries etc, it only gets better.