Sustainability Starts Here
One visible component of marine litter is plastic waste. The presence of this plastic waste in the world’s oceans has increasingly become a hot topic in the media. This has led to the Global Plastic Alliance, consisting of worldwide environmental
While they have yet to receive as much public scrutiny as plastic grocery bags, polybags have a large environmental impact on our planet. They are a threat to human health as well as the environment. If littered, polybags have the
To meet consumer demand for less packaging waste, companies are investing heavily to find new sources of raw material as well as new ways of returning these materials safely to the environment. This has
If you do your own grocery shopping, you’ve probably noticed that most food packaging is plastic. There are plastic jars that hold peanut butter, plastic tubes of tomato paste, plastic squeeze bottles of ketchup, plastic bottles of soda, and plastic
Starbucks recently announced that they were planning to replace straws with recyclable plastic lids in all their stores by 2020. This decision has sparked a debate over what actions companies can take to reduce the plastic that flows into oceans
With the average consumer wanting a quick convenient product with no-hassle, can reusable or refillable packages be incorporated into the market?
The packaging industry has grown exponentially since the refillable glass bottles of milk delivered door
Recently, Mady Delvaux-Stehres, an MEP for the EU from Luxembourg, drafted legislation to rule robots as electronic persons. If passed, such legislation would make a robot closer to a person than an object in the eyes of the law.
Surprisingly,
Over the past few years, single serve packaging has taken over the shelves and the market catering to the active, busy consumer. There are various reasons for smaller products popularity, such as an overall increase in 1 to 2 person