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A time to burn?

There was a time not so long ago when lightweighting of food and beverage packages was driven primarily by an interest in cost savings.

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Today we think more about environmental sustainability than cost when talking about lightweighting.

Corporate America has really been bitten by the sustainability bug. Boardroom discussions of life cycle analysis are now as commonplace as talk about expansion plans or new product launches.

Biologically derived polymers are commercially available, and now recycled polymers, such as rPET, are cleared for food contact. Things are changing so rapidly, maybe this is a good time to make sure that promising environmental opportunities aren’t being overlooked along the way. For example, what about Waste-to-Energy?

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