Everybody loves to hear fortune telling. But in Botta Packaging, we do not need a soccier to know about the future of packaging industry. Based on the reports and experience, below are our predictions about 2 foreseen trends of packaging industries:
Retail is the sector which consumes the most plastic bags; and 21st century’s consumers do not like it. Indeed, according to 2020’s report by Mintel – a Global Market Research Company, only 9% of plastic waste is recycled. In the meanwhile, nearly a half of US youngsters (26-43 years old) in their research agreed that companies and brands should show their values by following the eco-friendly practices.
For those reasons, we believe that a more sustainable packaging like paper-based one will replace plastic packaging in the near future as an unavoidable trend. In late August 2020, Morrisons – one of the largest supermarket chains in UK, has announced their scheme for “paper bag only” in eight of their stores. It is just a trial for their future plan to replace their plastic bags with paper bags in all Morrisons’ system.
If Morrisons model wins the consumer’s support, the race for paper bag among supermarket chains will come out sooner or later.
Responsible packaging
The term “responsible packaging” might sound new to you but indeed, it is emerging as an important concept in sustainable packaging. Responsible packaging is not just eco-friendly material or recycling plans but also in the logistic concepts. In this aspect, responsible packaging should include saving the energy and resources by refilling program, reducing the packaging layers or optimizing the space for warehousing or transporting the goods.
Waitrose in UK, Carrefour at Mall of the Emirates in Dubai and many other stores have launched their refilling program for detergents, cereals, and other food, grain or liquids. Customer can fill in their own containers with these products.
On the other hands, Botta Packaging also launched our free Pallet Calculator service, available on our website, so that companies can know how optimized their pallet stacking is to save the space, cost and energy in logistics. All of our effort is heading to a world of responsible packaging.
Above are, in fact, the early trends of packaging which are more sustainable than before. And our prediction is that these eco-friendly solutions like Morrisons’ paper bag plan, Waitrose’s or Carefore’s refilling program or Botta Packaging’s Pallet Calculator… will become very popular in packaging world.
References
Mintel, 2020 Global Packaging Trends, link for download: https://www.mintel.com/global-packaging-trends/thank-you
Paper bags favoured by Morrisons as they consider removing plastic bags from all stores, link
Sustainable Packaging: The Refill Market Opportunity Everyone Is Missing, link
