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Packaging Digest is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013. Throughout the year, we'll share interesting and fun facts from the past five decades of packaging. Send us your contributions/stories, too! 

Did you know ... 

By 1964, Americans were said to be consuming an average of 2,000 packages and the value of packaging materials was estimated at about 3.5% of GNP.

Packaging accounted for 54% of total hot-melt consumption from the 1960s to the early 1970s.

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