A Canadian consultancy is piloting an environmentally friendly cannabis packaging service with an eye to reducing waste by reusing wholesale packaging many times instead of recycling or throwing it away.
Unlike many other green cannabis packaging initiatives, the reusable, or circular, master pack prototype from Apical Ethical Cannabis Collective – an environmental, social and governance (ESG) consultancy – involves packaging for wholesale shipments from producers to distributors or stores.
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Looking ahead, Apical CEO Mika Unterman aspires to reusable consumer cannabis packaging.
“I think reuse can be implemented and be profitable and be successful at both levels of the supply chain,” she told MJBizDaily.
Unterman said starting with business-to-business packaging is a lower-risk way to test collection and reuse infrastructure and the associated costs, since Canadian consumer cannabis packaging is subject to significant regulatory requirements.
Pilot project launched
The circular master pack works as a so-called product-as-a-service, applying a
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