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Sustainable packaging is packaging that, over time, reduces its environmental footprint. The Sustainable Packaging  as defined by the GreenBlue® project is packaging which:

• is sourced responsibly,
• is designed to be effective and safe throughout its life cycle,
• meets market criteria for performance and cost,
• is made entirely using renewable energy, and once used,
• is recycled efficiently to provide a valuable resource for subsequent generations.

In summary: a truly closed loop system for all packaging materials.

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In the last blog we talked about the urgent need to be socially responsible in order to combat COVD-19.  Similarly, we have another contagion which we have nursed and encourage all these years and which is causing great and lasting undesirable impact and harm to our planet to combat – plastics!

Since we use plastics in almost every part of our lives, we may not be ready to break up with plastic altogether, but there is some low-hanging fruit that can make a big difference in reducing the amount of disposable plastic in our lives.

We are faced with a new virus COVID-19 that affects the lungs and airways, our very lifeline!  This is the time to learn and know what belonging to a community is. All of us are in this battlefield and victory will only come if all of us without exception do our part. It is a global pandemic and each of us, each family, each community, and each country needs to do its part to stop the pandemic. Coronavirus knows no borders or ethnicity. We are so connected that if any of the stakeholders let up, the pandemic will not stop. Globally there are now almost 500,000 cases and more than 22,000 deaths. In the UK we now almost 10,000 cases and 477 deaths. 

This blog is meant to collate all the salient facts that have been disseminated so far about this health crisis.

Does recycling help the environment or are we just going around in circles?
One of the original goals of the recycling movement was to avert a supposed crisis as the nation’s landfills were running out of space and to reduce carbon emissions and the greenhouse gases as we reduce the need to manufacture new products, hence less mining, drilling and logging.  But because more and more materials types have been added to the recyclable list, the process has become more complex and expensive than expected. In addition, recycling, especially of  plastic waste  mitigates carbon impacts only to a limited extent.

The Cycle of Plastic - From You, to the Ocean, and Back

A small study was done recently where eight participants in various countries recorded everything they ate, then had their stool sample tested. Every stool sample tested from the participants contained traces of microplastics. Of the 10 different types of plastic being tested for, 9 of the were identified in the stool. Six of the participants ate seafood, meaning the participants didn’t have to have seafood to have ingested plastic.