If you look at the landscape of sustainable packaging and meat processing, you will see quite an evolution over the past four or five years. Not so much in technology advancements, but in a more enlightened and reasoned view of the broader economic value that sustainability initiatives can have on business absent packaging formats constructed from renewable or compostable materials.
Early on, according to a senior packaging manufacturing source, many meat processors were looking for real breakthroughs in materials that were sustainable. Now, most realize that there are no silver bullets, and sustainability is a much more complex proposition.