
ROBERT LILIENFELD CONSULTING
PACKAGING FOR A SUSTAINABLE PLANET
Articles
Recent articles (2023):
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What ChatGPT gets right (and wrong) about packaging sustainability
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Best of Earth911 Podcast: SPRING's Robert Lilienfeld on Packaging, Plastics, & Tradeoffs
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A critical review on the UN's roadmap towards cutting plastics pollution (June, 2023)
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What makes Sainsbury's new mince format a packaging fail? (May, 2023)
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Has the Sustainability Packaging Ship Sailed? (April, 2023)
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Sustainability Holdups? Knowledge and Backbone (March, 2023)
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4 Sustainable Packaging Predictions for 2023 (January, 2023)
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Packaging Trends: Balancing Sustainability with Profits (January, 2023)
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The Cultural Dimension of Policy and Packaging Stability (January, 2023)
Recent articles (2022):
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New Thinking About Compostable Packaging (December, 2022)
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Top 5 Sustainable Packaging Issues of 2022 (December, 2022)
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To Attach or Not to Attach Thy Cap, That is the Sustainable Question (November, 2022)
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The Science Behind Sustainability (November, 2022)
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A Common Sense Approach to Sustainable Thinking (November, 2022)
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The Science Behind Packaging Sustainability (November, 2022)
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Bioplastic Causes More Sleight-of-Hand Confusion (November, 2022)
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A Bit of Sustainable Sleight of Hand, Frustration, and Confusion (October, 2022)
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What I learned about plastic waste by watching bread bake (October, 2022)
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Lifestyle Dimensions of Plastics Sustainability (October, 2022)
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Microplastics Problems and Solutions (September, 2022)
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CA SB 54 Plastic Packaging Law: Three Questions Answered (August, 2022)
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When It Comes to Safe, Sustainable Packaging, What is Job #1? (August, 2022)
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Sustainability As We Know It Must Go (August, 2022)
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Don't Throw the Plastic Baby Out with the Bathwater (July, 2022)
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How to Bring Sustainability Messaging into the Packaging Fold (June, 2022)
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Riding the Sustainable Packaging Waterfall (June, 2022)
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Looking Beyond the Carbon Cycle (May, 2022)
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A Sustainability Story Hiding in the Cereal Aisle (May, 2022)
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Sorry, Kroger, but the Truth Isn't Always So Simple (April, 2022)
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Game Time for the National Recycling League (April, 2022)
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A Sustainability Story That's (Ocean) Bound to Make a Difference (April, 2022)
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Refillables Can't Solve Today's Consumer Problems (March, 2022)
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What Litter Teaches Us About Sustainability (March, 2022)
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How to Build More Momentum for Sustainable Packaging ESG Efforts (March, 2022)
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More Sustainable Ways to Enhance Plastics Recycling (February, 2022)
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Material Bashing Has Become the Marketing Message of the Day (February, 2022)
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Don't Shoot the Sustainable Packaging Messenger (February, 2022)
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Adapt or Die: The Ecology of Plastics (January, 2022)
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A New Roadmap Towards Packaging Sustainability? (January, 2022)
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$ustainability is #1 (January, 2022)
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Sustainability's Fourth Wave (January, 2022)
On This Site
Plastics Europe
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What ChatGPT gets right (and wrong) about packaging sustainability
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A critical review on the UN's roadmap towards cutting plastics pollution
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How to Build More Momentum for Sustainable Packaging ESG Efforts
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Material Bashing Has Become the Marketing Message of the Day
Packaging Digest
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To Attach or Not to Attach Thy Cap, That is the Sustainable Question
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How to Bring Sustainability Messaging into the Packaging Fold
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Is Carbon Neutrality the Next Big Sustainable Packaging Thing?
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Here, there, everywhere: Global differences in sustainable packaging
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Once Upon a Time: Why Brands Need to Tell Their Sustainability Story
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Spoiler Alert: Packaging Helps Reduce the #1 Source of Food Waste
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The Secret to Sustainable Packaging? It’s About Supply Chain Energy Reduction
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A Convenient Truth: When It Comes to Food Waste, the Value of Packaging Hits Home
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When Sustainable Packaging Perceptions Are Trumped by Reality
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Don’t Shoot the Messenger: What’s the Real Role of Recycling?
Packaging Digest (Featuring Bob)
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Does this often-overlooked sustainable packaging metric deserve more attention?
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DuPont Online Event Puts Spotlight on Package Design, Sustainability
Plastics Today
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A Sustainability Story That's (Ocean) Bound to Make a Difference
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Sustainable Thinking Requires Both Relative and Absolute Views of Reality
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Sustainable Plastics, Recycling, and the Elephant in the Room
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How sustainable is plastic packaging? Here’s what the numbers tell us.
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Less is Often – But Not Always- More When it Comes to Packaging
Packaging Strategies
Packaging World
Food Safety
Environmental Leader
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The Science Behind Sustainability
New Research Indicates That Commercially Available Compostable Packaging May Not Be Compostable -
Tomorrow's Sustainable Packaging Solutions Require Systems Thinking
baking+biscuit international
Other Publications
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Speaking Sustainably: Changing Consumer Perspective Around Packaging and Food Waste (SuperMarket Perimeter)
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Mulch ado about nothing: How viable is industrial composting for beauty? (Cosmetics Business)
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How Packaging and Sustainability Can Go Together (SuperMarket Perimeter)
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3 Sustainability Myths That Might Surprise You - and Your Customers (Grocery Dive)
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These 7 crafts might help decrease your holiday waste (National Geographic)
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Is Black Box Thinking Hampering Blue Box Success? (LinkedIn)
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How to have a more sustainable New Year's Eve (Hello Homestead)
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Plastic bags, silly walks (Steamboat Pilot & Today)
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T'is the Season to Reduce Waste (MyMotherLode.com)
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From Crisis to Myth: The Packaging Waste Problem – Live Science
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Holistic Harmony – Brand Packaging
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Use Less Stuff: An Interview with Sustainability Expert Bob Lilienfeld - The Epoch Times
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The Easy Way to Packaging Sustainability, Efficiency - Packaging Design
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Portion-Control Food Packaging Offers Sustainability Benefits - Food Online
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5 Social Benefits of Sustainable Packaging - Plastic Packaging Facts
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Sustainable Goals for Secondary Packaging - Beverage Industry
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Over the past 20 years, packaging has evolved... - Beverage Daily
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Use Less Stuff with these plastics recycling tips - PlasticsMakeItPossible.com
Oldies (But Goodies)
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Six Enviro-Myths (with Dr. William J. Rathje) - The New York Times
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Thinking Small in a Season of Excess - The Los Angeles Times
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A Review of "Use Less Stuff" - Grist