Packaging by the Numbers

How large is the food-packaging industry in the United States? Too large, pontificate the economic pundits. Much too large, shout the environmental/sustainability folks. Way too large, opine the consumers of all the food products contained in these packages. Massively large, offer the popular media.

More than $600 billion, reflects long-time packaging industry expert Ben Miyares in his article, “One Trillion Reasons to Recognize,” which appeared in the September/October 2007 issue of PMT magazine…