12 Jun 2023 --- Packaging’s carbon footprint at a time of growing climate change fears will take center stage at this week’s Environmental Packaging Summit in Birmingham, UK. But Robert Fell, director and chief executive at the Metal Packaging Manufacturers Association (MPMA), tells us that food waste is a bigger environmental issue than packaging, and a problem that packaging can help alleviate. Although the premise of the session in which Fell will participate is the decarbonization of packaging, he argues that effective packaging avoids more carbon than it requires to manufacture by prolonging the shelf life of food and protecting items from damage.
