Expert's Opinion

The Virtue of the Pouch: A Moral Defense of Flexible Packaging

To understand the moral good of flexible packaging, one must reject the anti-human premise that human impact on the world is inherently evil.

By: Kyle Vafiadis

Sr. Packaging Engineer, PPC Flex

Photo: Shutterstock/ New Africa

There is a war being waged against industrial progress, a quiet assault on the materials that empower human life. It is fought in the name of “sustainability” and “naturalness” by those who find virtue in limitation. They look at a piece of modern, lightweight, flexible packaging—a plastic pouch holding fresh food—and see a pollutant. They are wrong. To understand the absolute moral good of flexible packaging, one must reject the anti-human premise that human impact on...

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