The food waste/sustainable packaging connection - Filed in: -
Waste reduction Sustainable packaging is emerging as a tool to
mitigate food waste in the U.S. In this Q&A, GMA’s Meghan Stasz
discusses the issues behind this product-package relationship.
Meghan Stasz is the director of Sustainability for the Grocery
Manufacturers Association (GMA), a U.S. association that
promotes and represents the world’s food, beverage, and consumer
products companies. She is also a distinguished co-chair for
Sustainable Packaging Symposium 2012: Advancing Sustainable
Supply Chains with Optimized Packaging, organized by Greener
Package and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers’
(AIChE) Institute for Sustainability, and scheduled for April
3-5 in Houston. One of the topics receiving considerable
coverage at this year’s event will be sustainable packaging’s
role in reducing food waste. In the following Q&A, Stasz
provides a preview of some of the issues that will be discussed.
Why has mitigating food waste become such a