This week: Monica Gross, ecosystem engagement manager at Avery Dennison, talks with Innovation Forum’s Ian Welsh about the multiple functions of packaging and why labelling is central to all of them. They also discuss connected packaging and the shift from paper to film-based labels.
And, Ian talks with Innovation Forum’s Lia Da Giau about how reuse, material innovation and waste management solutions are beginning to work together for packaging.
Plus: report estimates €25.4tn lost annually through linear economic processes; and, Indian packaging sector reduces dependence on fossil fuel-derived materials, in the news digest.

