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Four plastic packaging topics outplayed the competition this past month: PET bottles, a controversial plastics ban, bioplastics, and flexible packaging.

Rick Lingle, Senior Technical Editor

April 3, 2023

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Basketball is basically a sport that involves a ball and a basket including backboard, rim, and a net.

However, when March rolls around and it’s paired with Madness, there’s suddenly serious talk centered around other things like seeds, brackets, and pools. In other words, it’s a great time to be a college basketball fan.

We combine these two themes in a Final Four of Plastics Packaging, featuring the four top-read articles for the month determined by reader interest via website metrics.

Our seedings are listed below in alphabetical order; the results are presented in reverse order in the accompanying four-slide gallery.

  • Bioplastics News Stream;

  • Breaking News in Flexible Packaging March;

  • Canada’s Plastics Ban Has Its Day in Court (note the basketball reference); and

  • PET Bottles Have Smaller Environmental Impact than Glass and Aluminum Containers, Study Shows.

Please fill in your bracket before proceeding…

About the Author(s)

Rick Lingle

Senior Technical Editor, Packaging Digest and PlasticsToday

Rick Lingle is Senior Technical Editor, Packaging Digest and PlasticsToday. He’s been a packaging media journalist since 1985 specializing in food, beverage and plastic markets. He has a chemistry degree from Clarke College and has worked in food industry R&D for Standard Brands/Nabisco and the R.T. French Co. Reach him at [email protected] or 630-481-1426.

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