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As ever, the 2025 Sustainable Packaging Summit was designed to bring as many key value chain players together as possible – over 900 delegates at final count – in order not only to lament the ongoing and emerging challenges we all face but to discuss possible solutions. Here is a summary of the key talking points.
McDonald’s Corporation recently released a report detailing its opinions on the potential environmental, financial and operational impacts of introducing reusable packaging in some of its European restaurants. The company commissioned PwC UK to analyze the impacts of single-use and reusable packaging scenarios based on McDonald’s experience in certain European countries. In this edition of the Brief, we outline each scenario and highlight McDonald’s’ key claims, giving crucial insights into the world’s largest fast food chain’s opinions on reusable packaging.
The spork is an infamous utensil, envisioned as a spoon-and-fork hybrid but widely mocked for its impracticality. Should we write it off entirely, or can we learn some valuable lessons from its poor reception? We answer these questions and more in this edition of the Brief.