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Semi-serious account of an impossible future. Editorial by Stefano Lavorini.

It's a good thing that summer vacation is also behind us this year.
We finally have a whole year to get back to dreaming...imagining how it would be okay to live.
Editorial by Stefano Lavorini

When you say Design for Recycling
Editorial by Stefano Lavorini

Sustainability as part of the management strategy: a word from Marta Schiraldi, Safety, Health, Environment and Sustainability Head of Gruppo Nestlé Italia. Maria Costanza Candi, Luciana Guidotti 

Sustainability and profitability: this is the theme we have to deal with today, while looking ahead to tomorrow.
Editoriale di Stefano Lavorini
 

Environmental sensibility has distant roots for the Turin-based multinational: Francesca Squillace, Packaging and Materials Director of Lavazza, talks about it. 

At the beginning of May, the data relating to the IX and X reports on segregated collection and recycling, produced by ANCI* as part of the ANCI-CONAI** framework agreement, was presented. By Stefano Lavorini

MEAT-TECH by Ipack Ima has started a journey towards the edition scheduled at Fieramilano from 22 through 26 October 2021, in conjunction with TuttoFood and Host. And it has done  so by calling together experts and operators in the sector on a virtual platform on 24 March, to take stock of sustainable packaging for the meat and cured meats sector.               

Or rather… Our matters seen from Mars. By Stefano Lavorini

Not for one's own good but for the good of humanity, the people, the nation…» This challenging statement has been and is widely used to celebrate unconfessable interests and manipulate the economic, cultural and political needs that characterize the functioning of society.. Stefano Lavorini

"Who in the world manages to keep themselves upright, while overwhelmed by fear? This was asked by Athena in the Eumenides of Aeschylus, when she founded the Areopagus, the ancient Athenian court reserved for the most serious crimes.

We receive and gladly publish the considerations of the newly elected President of Giflex, Alberto Palaveri (CEO of Sacchital) about the new “criteria informing the activity of packaging waste management” reported in the DL of last September 3.

“Ferrari Challenger" by Sun Chemical, or rather, if you don't race you don't win: as a person and as a company. Notes of a very enjoyable and instructive day, even without having won. Stefano Lavorini

Know yourself and be aware of your limits: this is one of the classical interpretations of the maxim that, it is said, was inscribed on the temple of Apollo in Delphi.

Stefano Lavorini

No Papeete Beach, no Billionaire... For many of us humans, this summer has been very different from diving into more or less exclusive and risky social events, from the spasmodic search for pleasure.
Stefano Lavorini

Up to now, within the world we knew, we have felt reasonably strong and secure as individuals and as a collective... Yet it only took an extraordinary event to bring us back to the past, to the recollection and personal experience of ancestral fears.
Stefano Lavorini

Packaging Design in Times of Crisis. Systemic Approach and Ethical Implications of the Project, Amid Environmental Impact and Social Change

Once upon a time there was sustainability... and there will be once again in the "new" world after Covid-19. Rather, although the epidemic phase is still far from over, environmental issues in general and the circular economy will remain at the centre of government and industry agendas, exacerbated by consumers' growing emergency discomfort in the face of an increasingly uncertain future. Stefano…

Unusual and full of uncertainties, the times we are all experiencing, and with us our families, our friends, our companies. And yet, we already need to look ahead, perhaps with a baggage of convictions and awarenesses different from the time "before".

Champoluc, 5-6 febbraio 2020. Unusual, engaging, exciting - in perfect "Sun Chemical style" -  the "Ice Driving School", wished for by the ink multinational and organized by the Toyota Driving Academy on the Champoluc Driving Park (AO) track. By Stefano Lavorini