The Need for Safe and Sustainable Packaging
There are only a few places in the world left untouched by human presence. One of these rare environments, an uninhabited atoll and UNESCO World Heritage site in the South Pacific called Henderson Island, has been overrun with an estimated 38 million pieces of trash. Every single day an additional 3,500 pieces wash up on this once beautiful shoreline. The major concern is that nearly all of the trash analyzed is made of plastic. What’s worse, these pieces come from many countries around the world.
The sheer amount of plastic waste is a global problem. Why? Nearly every single piece of plastic ever made still exists today and global plastic production has exceeded 300 million tons per annum, a figure widely expected to double in the next twenty years alone.…