Processors of meat, poultry and seafood need to shift attention beyond the usual sustainability efforts to integrate environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies into corporate policy. Firms also need to move beyond an emphasis on source reduction, recyclability, renewable content, recycled content and carbon footprint reduction to prepare for looming regulatory requirements related to extended producer responsibility (EPR), which requires product producers to fund the collection, recycling, and management of packaging waste.
Both findings are based on input from end users and suppliers of packaging and processing technologies in attendance at the Top to Top Summit in March 2023 and detailed in Sustainability and Technology – the Future of Packaging and Processing, a report published in May 2023 by PMMI Business Intelligence, a division of PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, the event host. The report also features segments about workforce and technology and digitalization.