Several leading packaging material producers discuss issues influencing the type of packaging bakers and snack producers are using to meet consumer needs and their own.
Packaging is a key component of most of today’s consumer products, especially food. Items sold unpackaged years ago, such as lettuce, eggs, cookies and bread, are now sold in plastic bags, expanded polystyrene foam cartons, polyethylene terephthalate (PET) clamshells and kraft paper bags with polylactic acid (PLA) liners.