date:Oct 29, 2012
g usage of packaged food as grocery multiples take share away from specialist butchers and fruit/ vegetable shops, and increasingly shift to central packaging operations to reduce waste and control stocks more effectively. Other key growth drivers include the rise of smaller sized households, leading to increasing units of smaller pack sizes (smaller pack size = bigger total volume of package waste), as well as the shift from metal, glass and other packaging to plastic packaging in areas such as