Do you know what the dirty secret of CPG’s sustainability is? — do you know where the bodies are buried?
Awareness and progress in the scorecard.
A hot topic in the CPG packaging industry has been sustainability. Since the 1990s, large-scale retailers have responded to consumer pressure. The goal is to develop projects that reduce sources and recycle content.
The manufacturer of the retailers has done a lot of things, and they are pushing machines and materials suppliers to provide a range of solutions. This allows them to follow the incremental source and achieve the goal of reducing the target. Suppliers have already delivered, and the “scorecard” targets set by major retailers and industry groups have long been exceeded by manufacturers
Also joining the discussion is the trade association. For example, PM’s recent earth day infographic highlights this topic.
The problem of substitution and elimination.
Much of the progress has been made by replacing bulky materials with alternative materials. Examples include:
Instead of glass, we use glass tubes with thin plastic bottles. Recycled products from consumers in boxes. Instead of corrugated cardboard boxes are shrink-wrapped pallets; The pallet pad also needs to be replaced. Many of the packing techniques have been eliminated, and the strength and durability of the packaging materials are completely acceptable. At the same time, the need for secondary packaging can be reduced.
As we can see, each incremental step gets a large volume of packaging from the waste stream. What makes these changes in a wonderful way is technology. Bag of technology; The properties of multilayer films are barrier properties. Paper recycling takes advantage of all the advanced resources so that paper can be reduced and CPG sustainable development goals can be achieved.
It also contributes to machine technology – it achieves primary, secondary, and tertiary packaging in a more efficient way.