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Crazy About Packaging Season 3, Episode 12: High Barrier Food Packaging

Welcome back to Crazy About Packaging! This month we got into high barrier food packaging: what the package is protecting the product from, why those requirements shift from one application to the next, and why barrier makes recyclable packaging so hard to design. When the goal is recyclability, the usual answer is to simplify. Fewer materials, fewer additives, fewer colorants. But food packaging...