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As of 2022, we produce approximately 400 million tons of plastic waste every year globally. Of this colossal amount, 40% is contributed by packaging.[1] It is also estimated that 17 to 20% of all plastic packaging is multilayer packaging.[2]

Multilayer packaging (MLP) materials cannot be recycled using traditional plastic recycling systems and technologies, like mechanical recycling, owing to the chemical incompatibility of the different layers.

Following the theme of last week’s blog, this week’s piece will use pictorial representations of AI-generated brands and parallelly examine commercial success to truly understand the impact of the design of a product once it hits the shelves.

While statistics alone should be enough to reveal what works and what doesn’t, what further analysis will help us define is the reliability of AI.

All of us interact with plastics, whether you’re cracking open a fresh bag of potato chips or diving into a crisply wrapped bushel of homemade chocolate chip cookies. Manufacturers use plastics to package each neatly wrapped food item. This is a wonderful thing!

After all, plastics ensure fresh ingredients stay well-preserved. They also protect our favorite products from contamination. Explore some of the different types of plastics commonly used in food packaging. Moreover, discover just how prominent these plastics are in our daily lives.

The global fertilizer market is a huge market that has been divided into several sectors, for instance, specialty fertilizer, organic fertilizer, chemical fertilizer, etc., and each of them has a considerable market share. The Global Specialty Fertilizers market accounted for $34.65 billion in 2019 and is expected to reach $66.56 billion by 2027 growing at a CAGR of 8.5% during the forecast period.

While every corporate event attendee appreciates receiving a gift bag at the event’s culmination, many of those gift bags still contain single-use items or, worse, get thrown away immediately upon leaving. This happens not because the receiver wasn’t appreciative of what they got but because the business handing out the event favors didn’t put a lot of thought and effort into what goes into their giveaway. 

In intaglio or gravure printing ink is transferred from a sunken surface. It is the reverse of relief printing. One type of industrial intaglio printing. Gravure sometimes called rotogravure, shown in the image uses a recessed- image plate cylinder to transfer the image to the substrate. the plate cylinder can be either chemically etched or mechanically engraved to generate the image cells. The image area consists of cells or wells etched or engraved into a copper cylinder and the unetched surface of the cylinder represents the nonprinting areas.

A day to express appreciation and affection to our loved ones, in 2023 we must take celebrate Valentine’s Day by also being mindful of the waste generated from elaborate gift wraps and single-use trinket packages.  
To supplement your own ideas of innovative and sustainable packaging, we have curated a list of materials and design fitting for the occasion. 
We are not going to lie, our research for this piece did also involve scrolling on Pinterest. 

We have delved into EPR – a system that holds manufacturers and producers accountable for either correctly disposing or recycling the waste introduced into the economy by them – now, we will break down a system that incentivizes consumers to dispose their waste appropriately.
Deposit Return Scheme, also known as Deposit Return System, Deposit Refund System, Bottle Bills or Take-Back System, is essentially a surcharge on product, typically contained in a plastic or glass bottle or metal can, that is reimbursed to the purchaser upon return of the empty packaging.

Along with the surge in global voicing of concerns regarding sustainability comes “greenwashing” – an attempt made by corporations and brands to exploit such sentiment and mislead consumers into buying and using more expensive products that are no better for the environment.

In the short timeline of the last five years, there has been a 71% rise in online searches for sustainable goods globally, as reported by The Economist Intelligence Unit.