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In this post, I translate the European Commissions’ Plastics Strategy into an easy to digest overview that you can scroll through on your commute.

Following on from my previous post about the latte levy and the public's reaction to Blue Planet 2, I’m sharing my packaging-specific overview of the UK Government’s recently revealed 25 Year [...]

The value of packaging material is currently being lost in amongst the reactive talk of taxes, 'anti' campaigns and finger pointing...

Root talks to author, campaigner and food innovator Tristram Stuart about the origins of Toast Ale and gets his perspective on the argument of extending shelf life vs over-packaging.

Root founder, Tracy Sutton's upcoming thought leadership and speaking events

In this post, Tracy talks to food entrepreneur Tessa Cook, the founder of OLIO - a free app that connects neighbours with each other and with local shops & cafes so that surplus food can be [...]

Tom Szaky is the CEO and founder of Terracycle; the global business with the purpose of eliminating the idea of waste by collecting and recycling what can't be recycled today.

2017 will see a variety of exciting material, technology and circular economy inspired packaging innovations come to market.

Consumers and manufacturers alike are increasingly demanding sustainable packaging which meets sometimes complicated requirements.

Many in the industry are vaguely familiar with the 'circular economy' as a concept but wouldn't know how to apply its thinking to their own businesses...