Packaging Hottest Topics for 2025, So FarPackaging Hottest Topics for 2025, So Far

From sustainability shifts and regulatory impacts to digital innovations and political controversy, these five best-read articles from January 2025 highlight where packaging pros should focus this year. Are you keeping up?

Lisa McTigue Pierce, Executive Editor

February 2, 2025

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A renewed interest in packaging design, with sustainability still in mind, weaves through so many of our stories these days — especially these best-read articles from January 2025.

But beyond that, each one of these signals where our attention needs to be this year: on packaging regulations; recycled content; new digital technologies; sustainability shifts; and impacts from new White House policies.

In reverse order, here are the top five articles from 2025’s first month.

About the Author

Lisa McTigue Pierce

Executive Editor, Packaging Digest

Lisa McTigue Pierce is Executive Editor of Packaging Digest. She’s been a packaging media journalist since 1982 and tracks emerging trends, new technologies, and best practices across a spectrum of markets for the publication’s global community. Reach her at [email protected] or 630-272-1774.

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