Sustainability is a consumer trend that is transforming the packaging industry. The top three concerns in relation to beverage packaging include recycling or landfilling, renewable resources and energy, said Erin Reynolds, marketing director at Evergreen Packaging, at last year’s Sustainable Packaging Forum in St. Petersburg, FL.
At the forum, Evergreen Packaging presented the renewable and recyclable attributes of paper carton packaging. “Over 56 million US households have access to carton recycling. Over 70 percent of the [paper] carton is made from renewable resources—the paper comes from trees grown in forests where responsible practices are used. Over 50 percent of the energy used to turn the trees into this paper comes from renewable energy such as biomass,” said Reynolds.