OUGD601 | Packaging Research - 'Spoiler alert: Packaging helps reduce No.1 source of food waste by Robert Lilienfeld.' - Online website, Packaging Digest

·      Packaging Digest (2017) Spoiler alert: Packaging helps reduce No.1 source of food waste by Robert Lilienfeld. Available at: http://www.packagingdigest.com/sustainable-packaging/spoiler-alert-packaging-helps-reduce-no1-source-of-food-waste-2017-11-1. (Accessed: 25th November 2017).

• "It is not the number of people on the planet that is the issue – but the number of consumers and the scale and nature of their consumption," says David Satterthwaite, a senior fellow at the International Institute for Environment and Development in London. He quotes Gandhi: "The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed."
• "The global impact of adding several billion people to these urban centres might be surprisingly small."
• "It is not the number of people on the planet that is the issue – but the number of consumers and the scale and nature of their consumption."
• The real concern would be if the people living in these areas decided to demand the lifestyles and consumption rates currently considered normal in high-income nations; something many would argue is only fair. If they do, the impact of urban population growth could be much larger
• "If we change our consumption habits, this would have a drastic effect on our environmental footprint as well."
• The analysis showed that household consumers are responsible for more than 60% of the globe's greenhouse gas emissions, and up to 80% of the world's land, material and water use. 
• "If we change our consumption habits, this would have a drastic effect on our environmental footprint as well."