With so much focus on product packaging finding its way into the world’s oceans and piling up in our landfills, sustainable packaging is at the forefront of consumer consciousness. It’s difficult to imagine what life on earth will look like in two to three hundred years. Although it’s hard to predict what the future holds,…
Packaging waste is a big problem in the U.S. According to recent EPA statistics, it’s an 80.1 million-ton-per-year problem. That’s how much packaging waste made it into landfills in this country in 2017, the most recent year with published data available. In fact, packaging waste accounted for nearly a third of all solid waste dumped…