Future of Packaging

Leading Futurists Jennifer Jarratt @jenjarratt, John Mahaffie @jbmahaffie successfully completed another Future of Packaging program looking out to 2030

[Dieline @TheDieline]

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[VIE-mag @VieMag_fr]

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[Packaging Europe @PackagingEurope]

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

Full story: https://t.co/KjTa4fGhuK

[Maersk @Maersk]

🎉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.
#Maersk #allthewaytozero #lauramaersk #greenmethanol

[Packaging Europe @PackagingEurope]

.@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

Full story: https://t.co/1cZMhbumFo

[Future of Packaging @packfutur]

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?

[Future of Packaging @packfutur]

Heatwaves and severe storms are factors today for planning future supply chains and last-mile delivery https://t.co/I0WWwqEQKI

[Future of Packaging @packfutur]

Using paper for packaging fruit and veggies: a growing alternative to plastic https://t.co/4XQI6aL4BC

[Future of Packaging @packfutur]

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?

[Future of Packaging @packfutur]

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.

[Future of Packaging @packfutur]

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?

[Cheers! @cheers27402373]

You haven’t lived until your 8 year old son pulls out a quarter from his pocket and says “Dad, can I buy the Aldi shopping cart this time?”

[ENSO Plastics @ENSOPlastics]

Bioplastics do not solve #pollution, taking lifecycle accountability and making sure plastics (fossilized or plant-based) are designed to work in our managed waste systems – that’s puts an end to pollution.
#EndPlasticWaste #ZeroWaste #CleanPlanet #cleanenergy #Sustainability

[Future of Packaging @packfutur]

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

[Future of Packaging @packfutur]

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

[Future of Packaging @packfutur]

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.

[Future of Packaging @packfutur]

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.

[ScanbotSDK @ScanbotSdk]

Which check-out solution gives customers the best in-store shopping experience?

[Future of Packaging @packfutur]

Many money systems are moving away from cash, but the Euro money system plans to keep its notes, and redesign them https://t.co/06zZ76FwJk

[Future of Packaging @packfutur]

The structure, businesses and recycling sectors are not there yet to fully supply sustainable packaging, new (EU) rules notwithstanding https://t.co/w8UekwgA7Y

[نوف منصور 🌺 @NAFii201]

A fábrica de bebidas mais antiga do Brasil ainda em operação https://t.co/13SweVVzB8