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Bedtime packaging stories written by you

Article-Bedtime packaging stories written by you

 

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! 

 

 

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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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