Editorial policy

PackageTheWorld publishes practical reference material for people who specify, buy and design packaging. This page explains how that material is made, so you can judge how much weight to give it.

AI assistance

We use AI tools to help research and draft articles. Every article is reviewed by a person before publication, and we say so rather than presenting machine-drafted work as though it were written unaided. Using these tools does not lower the standard an article has to meet; the sourcing rules below apply regardless of how a draft started.

Sourcing

Every statistic we publish must link to its primary source — the standards body, regulator, company filing or peer-reviewed paper it came from. If we cannot link it, we do not publish it. We do not attribute figures to research firms without pointing at the specific research, and we do not quote interviews that did not happen.

Where we assert a rule of thumb from our own experience rather than a published source, we say that plainly instead of dressing it up as a study.

Corrections

In August 2026 an audit of our own archive found articles published before June 2026 that attributed statistics to named research firms without sourcing them, and in some cases attributed figures to research we could not verify existed. Those articles have been withdrawn from search results and carry a notice while we re-check every claim in them. Articles that cannot be properly sourced will be rewritten or removed rather than quietly left up.

If you spot something wrong, tell us and we will correct it and say what changed.

Commercial relationships

PackageTheWorld is affiliated with Paking Duck, a packaging supplier. Where an article links to Paking Duck, that link is marked rel="sponsored" so it carries no search ranking benefit, and we only include it where it is genuinely relevant to what you are reading. Our recommendations are not for sale, and no supplier pays for coverage or placement.