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Sustainable Packaging Q3 2023
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How the pandemic damaged our progress in plastic recycling
Covid-19 put action on plastic pollution at risk, but governments are getting back on track. In tackling this environmental problem, they must make sure not to create new ones. In early 2020, before Covid upended everything, Pew Charitable Trusts’ Breaking the plastic wave report showed the world was on track to triple the amount of...
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We’re changing our relationship with plastic packaging — for the better
We’ve all seen the projections, and they’re shocking. More plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050 (by weight),1 is just one example. Despite this, the use of plastics, and the resulting plastic waste is projected to almost triple globally by 2060.2 In tackling a challenge of this size and complexity, it is increasingly clear that...
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Working towards more sustainable plastic packaging
Making plastic packaging more environmentally friendly has moved forward considerably in the past 40 years or so, but there are still challenges to tackle. Recent and upcoming legislative measures aimed at making the industry greener are accelerating change in the plastic packaging industry. One was the introduction of the Plastics Packaging Tax. Nonetheless, the sector...
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How the flexible packaging of the future can leave plastic and its problems behind
With 45% of global greenhouse gas emissions dependent on the way we produce and consume products and food, sustainable flexible packaging has never been more important. In 1907, Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland invented Bakelite, the first fully synthetic plastic. It was marketed as ‘the material of a thousand uses’ – by the time of Baekeland’s...
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How sustainable packaging preserves food resources and minimises waste
It’s more important than ever to preserve food resources and reduce food waste. Sustainable packaging solutions help do just that — and in a less carbon-intensive way. With the global population increasing, climate change seemingly accelerating and geopolitical risks multiplying, preserving food resources and minimising waste are becoming more important. Sustainable packaging solutions that protect...