The COVID-19 pandemic has changed just about everything, and food and beverage packaging is one of the most visible.
As public health concerns dictated a new approach to consumer safety from restaurants to the supermarket aisle, plastic was seemingly everywhere, with single-use reversing a trend to, once again, proliferate. Sales of packaged food and takeout skyrocketed, taking plastic containers with them. Consumers flocked to favored brands and comfort foods whose familiar packaging offered a form of reassurance to the public. And the very idea of packaging took on new meaning.
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