The Packaging Talk!
Packaging is a tough business. Some of the greatest earth-friendly innovations can't be used for many products. Sonoco (one of the big players in plastics in the US) help create, at Clemson University's packaging lab, one of the first plant-based plastics (using corn). I know, because it happened after I graduated Clemson in a degree in packaging and food science (where we used the Sonoco Lab). Later on I worked at Virginia Tech at a packaging lab, with a bunch of dudes with pocket protectors (they are [...]