Comment: Unpacking society

Renee Wever, IAPRI Vice President

Looking now at the scope of IAPRI conferences and symposia, I see a healthy community around these topics, currently with packaging and its relation to food-waste in particular receiving substantial attention. But in general, packaging design, human factors, and (soft) sustainability are receiving far more attention than they did a decade ago.
 
Obviously, I cannot and will not claim sole credit for this development, but I do look back with a lot of satisfaction at what has been built. There are still many human-packaging interaction questions to be researched, and I hope to engage in some of those over the coming years. Meanwhile, I will continue to follow with great interest what fresh directions are taken by new and incumbent Board members, together with the Working Groups and wider IAPRI community.