{"id":6920,"date":"2020-11-09T09:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T07:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/packaging-with-a-community-conscience\/"},"modified":"2024-09-27T15:29:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T13:29:16","slug":"packaging-with-a-community-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/packaging-with-a-community-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"PACKAGING WITH A COMMUNITY CONSCIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"first-graph\" class=\"inline-ad-para\">Working for a plastic packaging manufacturer isn&#8217;t always something people want to shout about at parties, especially if they are a passionate advocate of environmental projects in their local community. But for Danielle Cycak, Supply Chain Manager at RETAL, being on the inside is the perfect way to make a real difference.<\/p>\n<p>We cannot get away from the fact that plastic packaging is not having a golden time at the moment. It&#8217;s an easy bogeyman across the media, from wildlife programmes to EU legislation, so it can be hard to be a plastic packaging champion without looking like you&#8217;re disconnected from the zeitgeist. And of course, we all want to be responsible citizens and leave the world a better place than how we found it, so it&#8217;s not like packaging professionals want to waste loads of valuable raw materials and just dispose of them in the nearest river.<\/p>\n<p>Yet with plastic packaging being so easy to criticise, it also means that the reality of plastic as a packaging material is also incredibly transparent; both literally (consumer studies show a slow uptake for &#8216;non glass like&#8217; packaging with higher recycled content, even though it&#8217;s more sustainable) and metaphorically (being under the spotlight means there&#8217;s nowhere to hide).<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-ad-para\">For Danielle Cycak, Supply Chain Manager for global plastic packaging manufacturer RETAL at its Donora, Pennsylvania plant, her dedication to actively supporting and participating in community-based environmental activities predates her employment with this leading company. Integrating her strong sense of responsibility towards environmental projects and her career development was a crucial aspect in her taking the job in the first place. Cycak tells Sustainable Plastics, \u201cI&#8217;ve been a part of a number of community projects for years; we&#8217;re so lucky to have an abundance of natural resources to explore from waterways to state parks as well as Pennsylvania being rooted in agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more online <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sustainableplastics.com\/news\/packaging-community-conscience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">at Sustainable Plastics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/stat_82.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read \/ download in PDF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working for a plastic packaging manufacturer isn&#8217;t always something people want to shout about at parties, especially if they are a passionate advocate of environmental projects in their local community. But for Danielle Cycak, Supply Chain Manager at RETAL, being on the inside is the perfect way to make a real difference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[111,98,97],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personas","category-article","category-all"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6920"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9729,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6920\/revisions\/9729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}