Allison Berg

2 months ago | packagingimpressions.com | Allison Berg

Many stakeholders in the sustainability landscape — investors, banks, customers, suppliers, and the media — want a clear understanding of the metrics and analytics associated with a company’s sustainability targets. These scores are increasingly relevant to an organization’s short-, medium-, and long-term growth potential. In response to this demand, several third-party rating systems and agencies have emerged.

Jul 8, 2024 | packagingimpressions.com | Allison Berg

Too often, we focus our sustainability efforts on what happens at the end of a product’s lifecycle — how we dispose of it, recycle it, or reuse it. But effective sustainability must also include the beginning of a product’s lifecycle — sourcing, designing, and protecting the resources that make fiber-based packaging a truly sustainable option. Historically, our industry has accelerated the transition to a more circular economy even as the demand for our products has increased.

Mar 20, 2024 | packagingimpressions.com | Allison Berg

Much of my job as a sustainability manager involves data tracking and modeling – reviewing water usage and emissions, for example, or OCC usage and paper recycling rates. The numbers tell how fiber-based packaging can drive circularity, minimize waste, and replace renewable resources, but it is all too easy to disassociate the data from the bigger picture of a circular economy and what it means for nature, people, and the communities we serve.

Dec 6, 2023 | packagingimpressions.com | Allison Berg

If there is one thing the packaging industry has taught me, it is that it is never enough to only focus on a problem. Many of the seemingly endemic situations packaging companies face – be it a finicky folder-gluer on the production floor, or a byzantine permitting process that complicates how the entire plant is managed – the problems themselves will stay just that, unless you shift your focus to the solutions.

Jul 14, 2023 | nation.lk | Allison Berg |Zach Ben-Amots