This week on Packaging Speaks, Christian sits down with Calvin Lakhan, Ph.D, Director of the Circular Innovation Hub at York University and an investigator at Waste Wiki, to explore where sustainability assumptions collide with real-world evidence. Dr. Lakhan shows how environmental impact plays out in practice, including situations where preventing spoilage can matter more than recyclability, and he walks through how to access and apply the datasets his team has assembled. If you build or buy packaging, this conversation gives you a sharper way to frame decisions and a clear path to the sources behind them.

Guest: Dr Calvin Lakhan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/calvin-lakhan-ph-d-56329224/)

Waste Wiki: https://wastewiki.info.yorku.ca/

Host: Christian Ellis (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christianellis/)

Presented by: PackStaff, LLC (https://www.packstaff.com/)

Music: Flopsy by Wallypop