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

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

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…

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.

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.

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…

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…

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

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?

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.

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?

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

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

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?

.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…

🎉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

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…

⏰ Don't forget to 'fall back' this weekend! ⏰ Daylight Saving Time ends, so set your clocks back one hour on Sunday at 2:00 AM. 💤Enjoy that extra hour of sleep! 😴👍 #DaylightSavingTime #Fallback #VIEmag

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