Food & Agribusiness
We help our clients to strengthen food & agribusiness supply chains through our insights on business trends, sourcing strategies, food logistics and packaging in global markets.
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The call for a circular economy grows around the world, including a strong push from a large group of stakeholders to solve the issues with plastic packaging waste. This has become a priority for the entire plastic packaging value chain. As mechanical recycling has many limitations, advanced recycling, or chemical recycling, has been touted as a promising solution to drastically increase recycling rates of plastic packaging waste. But, is advanced recycling really the silver bullet to the plastic packaging waste problem?
The main pulp trade flows, as presented in Rabobank’s fiber map, are occurring from west to east, with the Americas supplying Asia and parts of Europe.
Over the past 20 years, China has proven its massive influence on the global recovered paper (RCP) market. Driven by China’s supply/demand imbalances, the RCP market has undergone a gradual transition, from being a rather local product to a global commodity. As a result, global trade in RCP increased by a CAGR of 8.5% between 2000 and 2012. Exports to China accounted for about half of trade volumes.
For a long time, demand for food and beverage cans in North America was more or...
About a third of all food produced globally ends up lost. Proper packaging can...