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By Max Bracken

With so much focus on climate change and the environment especially in the media in the last number of years, it’s difficult to escape the responsibility that we all have to the environment. With the proliferation of the internet, we have also seen a massive increase in product packaging as necessitated from all the related deliveries. This packaging comes in many forms but is usually a mix of paper, card and plastic. As the rise in online shopping activity continues to rise so too does the waste associated with it.

As a result, there’s been a growing desire among the public and industry alike to come up with more sustainable solutions and those that don’t include unnecessary amounts of excess packaging. Of course, this presents challenges to industries on how to come up with a packaging solution that provides physical support to the product while also being environmentally friendly in its make-up and crucially, that doesn’t substantially increase unit costs.

The guys at Bracken Foam Fabricators have produced the infographic below that outlines everything you need to know about packaging from a sustainable point of view. It highlights some interesting sustainable packaging case studies; it includes some key trends in sustainable packaging; it details examples of sustainable elements of packaging plus lots more. Check out the full infographic below for all the details!

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Max Bracken is a marketing manager with Bracken Foam Fabricators. Bracken F.F. produce foam products and foam packaging across vast different industries and are a market leader in developing and manufacturing some high-quality sustainable solutions.