Packaging sustainability is failing. Or it isn’t. Or maybe it’s just changing.
Discussions about that hot-button topic unexpectedly wove through multiple sessions at The Packaging Conference this week after one of the first speakers, Tim Burns, senior advisor at Perella Weinberg Partners, declared: “We’ve been talking sustainability, we’ve been talking recycling, we’ve been talking composting, we’ve been talking all this stuff. The bottom line is: We’re failing.”