Climate Impact of Plastics
Plastics are frequently criticized for everything from their toxicity to their contributions to ocean pollution, but they play an important role in enhancing use efficiencies and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
2022 and Beyond for the Packaging Industry’s CEOs: The Priorities for Resilience
The white paper is overview by McKinsey & Company of the various different era’s the packaging industry has went through and what the coming focus areas should be sustainability and digitalisation.
Sustainability in Packaging: Global Regulatory Development Across 30 Countries
Sustainability regulations for packaging have become increasingly ambitious. A detailed understanding of the diverse regulatory landscape will be essential for companies to remain compliant.
True Packaging Sustainability: Understanding the Performance Trade-Offs
Sustainability of packaging materials varies by which sustainability elements are prioritized. Companies in the value chain will need to understand the trade-offs across carbon footprint, recyclability, and waste reduction. McKinsey team shares the key elements which merit consideration in this analysis
Global consumers’ attitudes toward sustainable packaging
Sustainability remains a key topic for the packaging value chain, but there are few (if any) insights into consumer perceptions globally—especially now that the COVID-19 pandemic is also influencing consumer sentiment and behavior. To better understand this influence, Mckinsey launched a survey across ten countries to explore consumers’ attitudes toward sustainable packaging, building on an earlier work focusing on consumer sentiment in the United States.
Sustainability in packaging: Inside the minds of US consumers
The pandemic is reshaping their views about sustainable packaging materials in ways that will force the whole value chain to act quickly.