This year was going to be one of seismic change for packaging. Because towards the end of 2019, the food and drink industry was setting out some truly ambitious targets. Stark warnings such as the one from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the World Economic Forum, which forecast the oceans would contain more plastic than fish by weight by 2050, meant something had to be done. And so the industry united under one common aim: to reduce the detrimental impact of packaging on the environment.
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