Chatting with a Self-Proclaimed Packaging Hater and Judger Charles Tschaggeny

Charles Tschaggeny is a self-proclaimed hater and a judger of packaging.  So, I thought, we should chat! Turns out he really is, especially when it comes to overdone and elaborate packaging. He is against the amount of waste and potentially misleading information or marketing in the industry of packaging but in favor of functional core packaging that is necessary for products.

On today's episode, we talked about:

•The excessive demands of and the need for packaging in order to make people's lives "more convenient or easier"
•Why aren't we recycling?
•Charles Tschaggeny background in packaging, design, and development
•With very much design and manufacturing background, at what point did he realize the purely functional standpoint in approaching packaging
•Greenwashing
•Why is it bad to capture more recycled content, process it, and use it?
•When selecting packaging or choosing packaging materials, what are the little things that brands can potentially do to make things better?
•Why manufacturing equipment is a bad thing?
•What would he recommend working with or trying to change people's minds when it comes to old-school packaging?
•What would it be the closest thing he could come up with to describe optimal packaging?

Charles built his career as an engineer by being able to think outside the box. He graduated from the University of Utah with an MS and a BS in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis on design, several patents, and a passion for problem-solving. Now, 15+ years in the industry have allowed him to build experience and refine his abilities through work in the fields of robotics, automation, product and process design, and system architecture.

He has worked in the molecular diagnostics world for over 10 years and has become very knowledgeable about the diagnostics world including both the design of diagnostic products and their manufacture.

When it comes to designing solutions, products, and processes, He is most interested in carving new paths by pursuing unique and innovative options.

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