Articles

Here’s an article on critical thinking that I've been thinking about since 1999. It's especially relevant today, given the raging debates regarding the pandemic, climate change, sustainable packaging, etc.:

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Critical Thinking Starts with Logic

 

Other recent articles:

• A Simple Way to Reduce Food Waste (October, 2021)

• Sustainable Thinking Requires Both Relative and Absolute Views of Reality (September, 2021)

• Mulch ado about nothing: How viable is industrial composting for beauty? (August, 21)

• New Research Indicates That Commercially Available Compostable Packaging May Not Be Compostable (June, 2021)

• How Packaging and Sustainability Can Go Together (June, 2021)

• Super-Sustainable Flexible Packaging (June, 2021)

• 3 Sustainability Myths That Might Surprise You - and Your Customers (May, 2021)

• Plastic Versus Paper: Life Cycle Analysis (April, 2021)

• Tomorrow's Sustainable Packaging Solutions Require Systems Thinking (April, 2021)

• Are Biodegradable Additives for Food Packaging a Solution? (March, 2021)

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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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Packaging Digest

• 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)

• 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

• 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

• Insights for Less Packaging

• How efficient is retail packaging in reducing waste?

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Environmental Leader

• The Trials of Packaging for E-Commerce

• Greenwashing: How to Avoid Typical Marketing Traps
   

LinkedIn

• 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

Other Publications

• A Simple Way to Reduce Food Waste (Baking & Biscuit International)

• 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)

• Plastic Versus Paper: Life Cycle Analysis (Baking & Biscuit International)

• 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