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A Waste-Free Packaging Future

Though there are influencers like Lauren Singer who demonstrate how to live a zero-waste lifestyle in New York City, most common consumers aren’t conscientious of the waste that comes with the food product they purchase—“76.7 million tons of [containers and packaging] generat[ed] in 2014” according to an EPA report. Therefore, I believe it is the responsibility of businesses, material scientists, and manufacturers to reinvent the future of packaging. To encourage the innovation, I created a speculative agency that inspects food packaging from all food businesses and assesses whether their products follow its environmental packaging regulations.