‘Less Plastic’: Waste Reduction and Environmental Sustainability through Design
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It’s not news to the packaging industry (especially you, the designers and developers of our packaging products) that consumer unease for the environment continues to grow. The vilification of single-use plastics in product packaging is especially driving industries to take a more holistic, sustainable, and ecological approach to waste reduction and packaging solutions.

Replacing single-use plastic with raw materials that are widely recycled and recyclable, such as paper/board packaging solutions, can aid product developers to empower industries and countries to meet waste reduction targets and environmental global goals.

Supermarket chains, industrial manufacturers of household appliances, and automotive and construction industries are all the focus of consumers, eco-groups, and governments aiming to reduce and stop their use of single-use-plastics.

Packaging is a requirement of every industry, from B2C and B2B; all-natural, sustainable, lightweight, recyclable protective packaging is being sourced more than ever before. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, recycling one ton of paper saves 17 trees and more than 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space. If you’re making the conscious choice as product developers and industry designers to use recycled paper/board solutions for primary and secondary product packaging, then your innovative ideas are on-trend to meet business and consumer’s ecological expectations.

This is particularly prominent for industrial designers and developers of packaging in e-commerce businesses; online shopping has grown exponentially. The need for innovative, strong, durable protective packaging that is simple, ecological, and on-brand is not set to go away anytime soon. Due to the stable structure, recycled nature, and 100% recyclability of paper/board packaging, environmental and economic sustainability through design is achievable for all you ground-breaking engineers, product developers, and industrial designers. 

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