Category: Industry Trends

Packaging Pro Australia  Packaging has been around for many centuries and had only come to light with the advent of consumerism. It can make the difference of whether an item sells or not, whether this be retail or wholesale sales. Packaging can be grouped together as processes (such as cleaning, drying, preserving) and materials (such as… Continue reading Packaging

If you read today’s BBC website then you may have come across this article. It tells of a City’s reluctance to accept foam as a sustainable product for disposable packaging and landfills. The basic problem with foam is that you just can’t recycle it or upcycle it making it a problematic product that lingers forever.  To… Continue reading The Banning of Polystyrene Foam

One of the common concerns about plastic packaging is that it is generally non-biodegradable and will persist in the environment for extremely long periods of time once thrown away. In the Pacific Ocean, for instance, there is the Great Garbage Patch, large swaths of oceans that collect debris and include millions of pieces of tiny plastic… Continue reading Additives to make plastic biodegradable don’t work!