{"id":6917,"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":"2024-09-27T15:29:15","modified_gmt":"2024-09-27T13:29:15","slug":"packaging-with-a-community-conscience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/packaging-with-a-community-conscience\/","title":{"rendered":"PACKAGING WITH A COMMUNITY CONSCIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working for a plastic packaging manufacturer isn’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

We cannot get away from the fact that plastic packaging is not having a golden time at the moment. It’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’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’s not like packaging professionals want to waste loads of valuable raw materials and just dispose of them in the nearest river.<\/p>\n

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 ‘non glass like’ packaging with higher recycled content, even though it’s more sustainable) and metaphorically (being under the spotlight means there’s nowhere to hide).<\/p>\n

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’ve been a part of a number of community projects for years; we’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

Read more online at Sustainable Plastics<\/a><\/p>\n

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Working for a plastic packaging manufacturer isn’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":5303,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[116,103,104],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-personnes","category-all-fr","category-article-fr"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6917"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9726,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6917\/revisions\/9726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.retalgroup.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}