Future of Packaging

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Our latest Finalist Interview ahead of the Sustainability Awards is with Floeter regarding its PaperWave box. We spoke to the company about this entry, nominated in the commercialised E-commerce category Full story: packagingeurope.com/features/susta…

🎉Her name is… LAURA MÆRSK🍾 the world’s first container vessel sailing on green methanol was formally christened by her Godmother European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at today’s historic name giving ceremony. #Maersk #allthewaytozero #lauramaersk #greenmethanol

.@Tesco is trialling a new ‘pillow pack’ to replace the tray packaging for two of its fresh beef mince products, a move said to result in a 70% reduction in plastic Full story: packagingeurope.com/news/tesco-tri…

Elon Musk's intention is apparently to make X the supermarket/convenience store of all apps where you may do anything you can think of mediapost.com/publications/a… Is this a model consumer companies, etc. can work with?

Heatwaves and severe storms are factors today for planning future supply chains and last-mile delivery reuters.com/world/climate-…

Using paper for packaging fruit and veggies: a growing alternative to plastic hortidaily.com/article/954651…

Designing & building the factory of the future to turn out EVs that will carry goods & people in crowded cities just-auto.com/interview/is-a… A possible factory-in-a-box model with applications for packaging?

Growing kelp in the ocean to become a CO2 sink may be a good idea, but like many eco-ideas it faces issues technologyreview.com/2022/06/16/105…. Do you stick to the sustainability and carbon reductions achievable in packaging or do you aim for bigger change--circular economies, for eg.

Is getting a good night's sleep an amenity, a packaged good that can be sought, bought, and sold? Some hotels are seeing it as an emerging goal for travelers mediapost.com/publications/a… Can sleep be sold as a package along with actual brands & goods?

You haven’t lived until your 8 year old son pulls out a quarter from his pocket and says “Dad, can I buy the Aldi shopping cart this time?”

Bioplastics do not solve #pollution, taking lifecycle accountability and making sure plastics (fossilized or plant-based) are designed to work in our managed waste systems – that’s puts an end to pollution. #EndPlasticWaste #ZeroWaste #CleanPlanet #cleanenergy #Sustainability

Brands are doubting the use of bioplastics in packaging, based on several issues, including the access to feedstocks that may harm local sources reuters.com/sustainability…

Useful to packaging is this framing of sustainability by Freya Williams: "align the sustainable economy agenda to people’s most deep-seated values, things like freedom, love, family and belonging." greengiantsetc.substack.com/p/youve-been-f…

Researchers in soft robotics have created a caterpillar-like robot that can inch under anything new.nsf.gov/news/robot-cat… Robots like this could maybe tend packaging machinery & robots, keeping it all clean.

Do stores even care about the customers' shopping experience? From pushing a cart & searching for products, trying to read info in tiny print on packaging, self-unloading the cart & checking items, self-packing & passing the receipt checker at the door, one wonders.

Many money systems are moving away from cash, but the Euro money system plans to keep its notes, and redesign them ecb.europa.eu/euro/cash_stra…

The structure, businesses and recycling sectors are not there yet to fully supply sustainable packaging, new (EU) rules notwithstanding nutraingredients.com/News/Regulatio…

A fábrica de bebidas mais antiga do Brasil ainda em operação embalagemmarca.com.br/2023/06/a-fabr…