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With the increase of consumers' concern about environment and climate change, plastic in particular has started to be perceived as a problem, one that people feel it's possible to mitigate if not solve. Lots of attention has been focused on the approach to packaging: it must change and it is. Here are some of my reflections on packaging trends.

Food waste: perception is far from reality
During the last decade, waste has become a worldwide issue connected with environmental protection and climate change. One side of the problem stands on the facts that people are often not aware of the results of their actions as they really occur. Unfortunately, food waste isn't an exception: here are some data.

Recycling a discount [Tesco]
Ocean pollution is a fact, a very scary problem that all of us must contribute towards solving. First of all we can do our best to reduce our plastic waste and focus on recycle and reuse. In Malaysia Tesco have launched a fantastic initiative to convince their customers to reuse their plastic bags to carry the shopping and to reward them each time. Discover how by reading on.

Beer recruitment
Design and advertising agencies, pay attention to Christmas gifts delivered from competitors to your staff! Last year, in fact, Good Morning, a Norwegian agency, created an insidious recruiting campaign organising a sharp and smart direct marketing action based on Christmas gifts: “The Trojan beer”.

Big MAC can
This year the Big Mac has turned 50. With the aim to celebrate this important anniversary, McDonald’s managed to convince another icon of the food and beverage sector – Coca Cola – to pay their respects and join the historical celebration organising an unprecedented co-branding action: a limited edition Coca Cola can.

From cardboard to fun
How to recycle or upcycle cardboard boxes? Miami Ad School have had a fantastic idea to solve this issue. In order to give a new life to IKEA packages and give kids invaluable experiences, they have transformed the cardboard boxes that come with furniture into play kits.

Have a lovely holiday… and a tonic! ;)
My blog goes on vacation until September. I hope you’ll miss it! ;) In the meantime, I wish you a marvellous summer and I leave you with a very unexpected tip for your holidays: as I discovered from the Thomas Henry’s advertising campaign, you can use tonic to avoid mosquitos bites. Have a look at their commercial if you don’t believe me ;)

Appliances and cardboard furniture
Because of the recent recession, the increasing number of single households and the rise of house prices, in Korea more often young people are living in small studios of a maximum of 28 sqm. Those people need to optimise the use of space but also to avoid not being able to show their style, so Himade have had the idea to launch a line of appliances dedicated to them.

Cultivate bags
Recycling is fundamental and everybody is trying to find a solution especially for those occasions in which plastic is still used too much. Supermarkets should be the first concern because of all the plastic packaging still used there, in particular in the fruits and veggies area. FEEDitBaG is an alternative to the thin plastic bag used in that supermarket area.