Leading Futurists Jennifer Jarratt @jenjarratt, John Mahaffie @jbmahaffie successfully completed another Future of Packaging program looking out to 2030
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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
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🎉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.
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.@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
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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 https://t.co/AlWqTnd3fj Is this a model consumer companies, etc. can work with?
Designing & building the factory of the future to turn out EVs that will carry goods & people in crowded cities https://t.co/gXZGxMR1Y7 A possible factory-in-a-box model with applications for packaging?
Growing kelp in the ocean to become a CO2 sink may be a good idea, but like many eco-ideas it faces issues https://t.co/sWZ0SWLFnm. Do you stick to the sustainability and carbon reductions achievable in packaging or do you aim for bigger change--circular economies, for eg.
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 https://t.co/25qXWyhvnS Can sleep be sold as a package along with actual brands & goods?
Brands are doubting the use of bioplastics in packaging, based on several issues, including the access to feedstocks that may harm local sources https://t.co/gAVVIGqkHk
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." https://t.co/HY8fOqTtic
Researchers in soft robotics have created a caterpillar-like robot that can inch under anything https://t.co/rFB7XzBYNP Robots like this could maybe tend packaging machinery & robots, keeping it all clean.
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.
The structure, businesses and recycling sectors are not there yet to fully supply sustainable packaging, new (EU) rules notwithstanding https://t.co/w8UekwgA7Y