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The Future of Flexible Packaging

Source from: https://www.flexpackmag.com/articles/89602-the-future-of-flexible-packaging

October 5, 2018

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) developed a new infographic that summarizes the future of flexible packaging and provides foresight into future opportunities for flexible packaging with the emergence of e-commerce, innovation, and sustainability trends.

Innovating to Fight Food Waste

Flexible packaging innovates to reduce food waste and helps to extend product shelf life. Global food waste is a persisting challenge, and flexible packaging can help decrease food spoilage and waste and extend product shelf life through use of barriers and compostable materials.

Higher Packaging Recovery Goals

As the U.S. and other countries drive toward higher packaging recovery goals, it will require additional focus on new flexible packaging recycling technologies and recovery systems. Consumer education is vital to impact behavior change and effectively utilize new systems. Over 80% of marine debris comes from countries that lack waste management infrastructure. Global investment in infrastructure, industry initiatives, and consumer behavior can help in reducing marine pollution. Investment in infrastructure in developing countries is needed to reduce ocean-bound plastics, and more consumer behavior education in developed countries, where the infrastructure is already robust, is needed to reduce litter.