Packaging as a Waste-Reduction Tool Across the Supply Chain

When people talk about food waste, the image that usually comes to mind is what ends up in the trash at the end of the day: unsold produce, bruised fruit, a box pulled from the shelf. What we don’t often talk about is everything that came before that moment: the water, fuel, fertilizer, labor, land and time invested long before the product was ever packed.  That’s where packaging and…