Unbox Innovation. Power Growth. Enable Sustainability.
Fostering innovation
With a global network of 500+ sustainability experts, we support clients as they balance natural resource challenges, emissions reduction targets, and ethical production practices. Our cutting-edge research helps clients understand which levers to pull to drive industry disruption – whether creating a net-new substrate or using an existing substrate in a brand-new way, we value helping our clients foster industry innovation.
Streamlining operations
To scale sustainable packaging solutions, organizations need to have the systems, processes, infrastructure, and capabilities to support them. We work with clients across the packaging value chain to manage supply chains, enhance manufacturing processes, and improve productivity.
Accelerating growth
We combine years of proprietary consumer and industrial data, conduct timely research, and work with the world’s leading organizations to help understand consumer preferences and uncover value-driven growth opportunities.
Drive sustainable solutions
We take clients through the whole sustainability journey, from building a comprehensive baseline and defining an analytics-driven aspiration, through to designing a rigorous plan to achieve impact across multiple dimensions, and guiding clients through the full-scale implementations for near and long-term impact.
Featured capabilities
Global Consumer Sentiment Analytics
A global database with the latest data measuring consumer sentiment on sustainable packaging. Our in-depth data covers 11 countries with generational, neighborhood, and income-level breakdowns across key sustainability aspects and themes.
Global Packaging Regulations Scan
A comprehensive index of packaging regulations from around the world, the regulatory database spans 57 countries and 20+ packaging substrates featuring both active and proposed legislature across key topics such as food safety, reusability, traceability, reusability, labeling, and more.
McKinsey Sustainable Packaging Assessment
A comprehensive benchmark across industries, regions, and functions to identify opportunities to improve sustainable packaging capabilities.
PackIQ
A digital analysis tool built up using 15 years of detailed packaging studies and a database of thousands of types of packaging to help identify value levers for packaging sustainability and redesign.
Our insights
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Sustainability in packaging: US survey insights
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Coming out of the pandemic, new realities are reshaping consumer attitudes on sustainable packaging in the United States.
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Sustainability in packaging: Five key levers for significant impact
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Our survey reveals a strong commitment to sustainability in packaging, but few organizations are on track to meet these goals. We...
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Sustainability in packaging: Global regulatory development across 30 countries
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Sustainability regulations for packaging have become increasingly ambitious. A detailed understanding of the diverse regulatory...
Our people
David Feber
Senior Partner, Detroit
Global leader for packaging, drawing on extensive expertise to help packaging companies grow, shape their strategies, improve their operations and transform their overall performance.
Yogesh Malik
Senior Partner, Washington DC
Global leader of Sustainability in Operations. Drives client transformations across industries on sustainability, operations and strategy topics
Greg Vainberg
Senior Partner, Montreal
Global leader for Packaging and Paper, working directly with management teams to improve their strategic choices, investment decisions and operational performance.
Abhinav Goel
Partner, Pittsburgh
Serves clients across the packaging value chain: raw materials, converters, and recyclers across substrates (paper, plastic, glass, and metal) on strategy, growth and transformation processes.
Mukund Prasad
Partner, Toronto
Drives transformations across industries on sustainability, operations, and strategy topics. Brings together our capabilities across practices on sustainable packaging.
Darshit Gandhi
Associate Partner, New York
Serves clients across the packaging substrates (paper, plastics, glass) focusing on strategy, growth, commercial and digital topics.
Keep exploring
Sustainable Materials Hub
McKinsey’s Sustainable Materials Hub empowers organizations to solve the sustainable materials challenge and achieve carbon reduction commitments through the production and sourcing of low-carbon materials.
Packaging & Paper
Learn how we help our clients refine strategies and business models to improve products, operations, and organizational effectiveness.