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Shawn Welch, VP and general manager of Hi-Cone Worldwide talks about the post-pandemic circular economy for plastics, data from Hi-Cone’s 2021 “State of Plastic Recycling” report and consumer recycling trends in the beverage packaging industry.
A dominant theme in packaging today is sustainability. It seems to be at the core of every packaging conversation, and plastics, in particular, are the villain du jour.
A rising tide of consumer sentiment against use of plastics is starting to flood the world. Everywhere, you can see images of debris in the oceans choking marine animals. Dire warnings are being floated about these environmental concerns. It is estimated that 80 percent of the estimated 8 million tons of plastics that flow into the oceans each year originates on land, much of it in six Asian nations.
With the demand for film and flexible packaging expanding, efforts to recover and reclaim that material are becoming increasingly complex and critical.
Royal DSM, a global life sciences and material sciences company, will be presenting a material solution for flexible food packaging at Multilayer Packaging Films and TAPPI Flexible Packaging Symposium.
