Articles

Recent articles (2023):

• What ChatGPT gets right (and wrong) about packaging sustainability

• Best of Earth911 Podcast: SPRING's Robert Lilienfeld on Packaging, Plastics, & Tradeoffs

• A critical review on the UN's roadmap towards cutting plastics pollution (June, 2023)

• What makes Sainsbury's new mince format a packaging fail? (May, 2023)

• Has the Sustainability Packaging Ship Sailed? (April, 2023)

• Sustainability Holdups? Knowledge and Backbone (March, 2023)

• Paper Pack Pragmatism (January, 2023)

• 4 Sustainable Packaging Predictions for 2023 (January, 2023)

• Packaging Trends: Balancing Sustainability with Profits (January, 2023)

• The Cultural Dimension of Policy and Packaging Stability (January, 2023)

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Recent articles (2022):

• New Thinking About Compostable Packaging (December, 2022)

• Top 5 Sustainable Packaging Issues of 2022 (December, 2022)

• To Attach or Not to Attach Thy Cap, That is the Sustainable Question (November, 2022)

• The Science Behind Sustainability (November, 2022)

• A Common Sense Approach to Sustainable Thinking (November, 2022)

• The Science Behind Packaging Sustainability (November, 2022)

• Bioplastic Causes More Sleight-of-Hand Confusion (November, 2022)

• A Bit of Sustainable Sleight of Hand, Frustration, and Confusion (October, 2022)

• What I learned about plastic waste by watching bread bake (October, 2022)

• Lifestyle Dimensions of Plastics Sustainability (October, 2022)

• Microplastics Problems and Solutions (September, 2022)

• CA SB 54 Plastic Packaging Law: Three Questions Answered (August, 2022)

• When It Comes to Safe, Sustainable Packaging, What is Job #1? (August, 2022)

• Sustainability As We Know It Must Go (August, 2022)

• Don't Throw the Plastic Baby Out with the Bathwater (July, 2022)

• How to Bring Sustainability Messaging into the Packaging Fold (June, 2022)

• Riding the Sustainable Packaging Waterfall (June, 2022)

• Looking Beyond the Carbon Cycle (May, 2022)

• A Sustainability Story Hiding in the Cereal Aisle (May, 2022)

• Sorry, Kroger, but the Truth Isn't Always So Simple (April, 2022)

• Game Time for the National Recycling League (April, 2022)

• A Sustainability Story That's (Ocean) Bound to Make a Difference (April, 2022)

• Refillables Can't Solve Today's Consumer Problems (March, 2022)

• What Litter Teaches Us About Sustainability (March, 2022)

• How to Build More Momentum for Sustainable Packaging ESG Efforts (March, 2022)

• More Sustainable Ways to Enhance Plastics Recycling (February, 2022)

• Material Bashing Has Become the Marketing Message of the Day (February, 2022)

• Don't Shoot the Sustainable Packaging Messenger (February, 2022)

• Adapt or Die: The Ecology of Plastics (January, 2022)

• A New Roadmap Towards Packaging Sustainability? (January, 2022)

• $ustainability is #1 (January, 2022)

• Sustainability's Fourth Wave (January, 2022)

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On This Site

• Avoiding the Biodegradation Minefield

• 10 Things I Bet You Didn't Know About Packaging

• Guide to Sustainable Packaging Claims

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Plastics Europe

• What ChatGPT gets right (and wrong) about packaging sustainability

• A critical review on the UN's roadmap towards cutting plastics pollution

• What makes Sainsbury's new mince format a packaging fail?

• The Science Behind Packaging Sustainability

• What I learned about plastic waste by watching bread bake

• Sustainability As We Know It Must Go

• Looking Beyond the Carbon Cycle

• How to Build More Momentum for Sustainable Packaging ESG Efforts

• Material Bashing Has Become the Marketing Message of the Day

• Adapt or Die: The Ecology of Plastics

• A New Roadmap Towards Packaging Sustainability?

• Taking a Critical Look at the French Plastic Packaging Ban

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Packaging Digest

• 4 Sustainable Packaging Predictions for 2023

• Packaging Trends: Balancing Sustainability with Profits

• New Thinking About Compostable Packaging

• Top 5 Sustainable Packaging Issues of 2022

• To Attach or Not to Attach Thy Cap, That is the Sustainable Question

• How to Bring Sustainability Messaging into the Packaging Fold

• Riding the Sustainable Packaging Waterfall

• Game Time for the National Recycling League

• Don't Shoot the Sustainable Packaging Messenger

• Packaging Sustainability Needs a Big Shift

• What is SPRING and Why Is It Needed in Packaging Now?

• Are Biodegradable Additives for Food Packaging a Solution?

• Is Carbon Neutrality the Next Big Sustainable Packaging Thing?

• 2020 Sustainable Packaging State of the World

• Here, there, everywhere: Global differences in sustainable packaging

• 4 reasons branded packaging is vital in an ecommerce world

• Acknowledging The Third Leg on the Sustainability Stool

• Once Upon a Time: Why Brands Need to Tell Their Sustainability Story

• Surprise! We're trashing less packaging now

• Spoiler Alert: Packaging Helps Reduce the #1 Source of Food Waste

• Busting the Myth of Zero Waste

• The Secret to Sustainable Packaging? It’s About Supply Chain Energy Reduction

• A Convenient Truth: When It Comes to Food Waste, the Value of Packaging Hits Home

• When It Comes to Sustainable Packaging, Embrace the Fear

• Sustainable Packaging Requires Yin and Yang Thinking

• Let’s Make Packaging Great Again

• The Irony of Flexible Pouches

• Time to Get Out of the Packaging Business

• Rethink Sustainable Packaging as an Asset, Not a Liability

• Packaging Sustainability Hangs in the Balance

• Happy Earth Day! Ready for Some Good Enviro News?

• Notice a Sustainable Packaging Difference?

• A Little More (Sustainable) Packaging, Please…

• When Sustainable Packaging Perceptions Are Trumped by Reality

• Message in a Bottle

• Don’t Shoot the Messenger: What’s the Real Role of Recycling?

• Sustainable Packaging and the Bathtub-Shaped Curve

Packaging Digest (Featuring Bob)

• Microplastics Problems and Solutions

• Packaging analysts applaud Amazon's new incentive program

• Quaker Overnight Oats Packages Simplicity

• The sustainability of e-commerce packaging is in question

• Does this often-overlooked sustainable packaging metric deserve more attention?

• How2Recycle Label Continues to Scale Up

• 12 Amazing Articles for Packaging Pundits

• DuPont Online Event Puts Spotlight on Package Design, Sustainability

Plastics Today

• Has the Sustainability Packaging Ship Sailed?

• Sustainability Holdups? Knowledge and Backbone

• The Cultural Dimension of Policy and Packaging Stability

• A Common Sense Approach to Sustainable Thinking

• Bioplastic Causes More Sleight-of-Hand Confusion

• Lifestyle Dimensions of Plastics Sustainability

• CA SB 54 Plastic Packaging Law: Three Questions Answered

• Don't Throw the Plastic Baby Out with the Bathwater

• A Sustainability Story Hiding in the Cereal Aisle

• Sorry, Kroger, but the Truth Isn't Always So Simple

• A Sustainability Story That's (Ocean) Bound to Make a Difference

• Refillables Can't Solve Today's Consumer Problems

• What Litter Teaches Us About Sustainability

• More Sustainable Ways to Enhance Plastics Recycling

• $ustainability is #1

• Magnetic Ink Attracts Sustainable Solutions

• P&G Cracks the Sustainability Code

• Sustainable Thinking Requires Both Relative and Absolute Views of Reality

• Super-Sustainable Flexible Packaging

• Are Biodegradable Additives for Food Packaging a Solution?

• Biodegradation Is Not a Sustainable Silver Bullet

• Sustainable Plastics, Recycling, and the Elephant in the Room

• The Sustainable Packaging Evolution: Rapid Bander

• The Sustainable Packaging Evolution: Ineos

• The Sustainable Packaging Evolution: Kwik Lok

• Top Eight Things to Know About Biodegradable Packaging

• False assumptions on food waste, plastics and packaging

• How sustainable is plastic packaging? Here’s what the numbers tell us.

• What Do Guns and Plastic Ocean Debris Have in Common?

• Plastic Perceptions: Let’s Make Something Perfectly Clear

• LCA Reveals True Environmental Friendliness of Plastics

• Less is Often – But Not Always- More When it Comes to Packaging
   

Packaging Strategies

• Earth Week and 'eco-glibberish'

• Taking the pulse of sustainability

• Revolutionizing our approach to sustainable packaging

Packaging World

• Paper Pack Pragmatism

• Insights for Less Packaging

• 8 Tips to Acing Green Guidelines Compliance

• How efficient is retail packaging in reducing waste?
   

Food Safety

• When It Comes to Safe, Sustainable Packaging, What is Job #1?

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Environmental Leader

• The Trials of Packaging for E-Commerce

• Greenwashing: How to Avoid Typical Marketing Traps
   

LinkedIn

• The Science Behind Sustainability
  New Research Indicates That Commercially Available Compostable Packaging May Not Be Compostable

• Tomorrow's Sustainable Packaging Solutions Require Systems Thinking

• Is Black Box Thinking Hampering Blue Box Success?

• Packaging Sustainability Hangs in the Balance

baking+biscuit international

• Zero Waste: Can We Get There?

• A Simple Way to Reduce Food Waste

• Plastic Versus Paper: Life Cycle Analysis

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Other Publications

• Sustainability's Fourth Wave (Food Technology)

• Speaking Sustainably: Changing Consumer Perspective Around Packaging and Food Waste (SuperMarket Perimeter)

• Mulch ado about nothing: How viable is industrial composting for beauty? (Cosmetics Business)

• How Packaging and Sustainability Can Go Together (SuperMarket Perimeter)

• 3 Sustainability Myths That Might Surprise You - and Your Customers (Grocery Dive)

• These 7 crafts might help decrease your holiday waste (National Geographic)

• Is Black Box Thinking Hampering Blue Box Success? (LinkedIn)

• How to have a more sustainable New Year's Eve (Hello Homestead)

• Plastic bags, silly walks (Steamboat Pilot & Today)

• T'is the Season to Reduce Waste (MyMotherLode.com)

• From Crisis to Myth: The Packaging Waste Problem – Live Science

• Holistic Harmony – Brand Packaging

• Use Less Stuff: An Interview with Sustainability Expert Bob Lilienfeld - The Epoch Times

• The Easy Way to Packaging Sustainability, Efficiency - Packaging Design

• Portion-Control Food Packaging Offers Sustainability Benefits - Food Online

• 5 Social Benefits of Sustainable Packaging - Plastic Packaging Facts

• Sustainable Goals for Secondary Packaging - Beverage Industry

• Over the past 20 years, packaging has evolved... - Beverage Daily

• Use Less Stuff with these plastics recycling tips - PlasticsMakeItPossible.com

Oldies (But Goodies)

• Six Enviro-Myths (with Dr. William J. Rathje) - The New York Times

• Thinking Small in a Season of Excess - The Los Angeles Times

• A Review of "Use Less Stuff" - Grist