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News
| April 19, 2013

European bottled water company is certified as carbon-neutral

Croatian water bottler Jamnica earns CarbonFree certification in North America, offsetting its carbon emissions through investments in third-party programs.
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| February 22, 2013

GreenBlue to offer standardized packaging design assessment

Organization leverages its COMPASS life cycle-based design software to provide packaging analysis for more sustainable package design.
Feature Article
| July 17, 2012

Ensuring package design sustainability through LCA

Life Cycle Analysis is a tool that the package designer/engineer can use to steer the design and materials selection of a package on a more sustainable route early in the process.
News
| May 7, 2012

LCA helps Kraft measure, improve environmental impacts of packaging

Proprietary Eco-Calculator helps Kraft’s packaging designers create more efficient, sustainable solutions for products, such as the Kraft YES Pack and the Tassimo T Disk.
Relative amounts of GHG emissions during film production.
News
| February 15, 2012

Comprehensive analysis of barrier materials

A recently published report provides volumetric and revenue forecasts for barrier materials through 2016.
News
| December 16, 2011

Kraft maps full footprint, 'from farm to fork'

Project provides initial details of company’s effects on climate, land, and water; validates focus on sustainable agriculture.
News
| November 4, 2011

Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability published

In early September, The Global Packaging Project, part of the sustainability workstream at The Consumer Goods Forum, released the Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability.
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News
| September 14, 2011

First sustainability report on North American aluminum industry unveiled

Documents steady improvements in aluminum’s environmental footprint over past 20 years, and provides full LCA data for all steps of the manufacturing process.
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News
| September 7, 2011

Global Packaging Project releases sustainability measurement system

The new Global Protocol on Packaging Sustainability provides a common measurement system for companies to assess the relative sustainability of packaging.
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Feature Article
| July 27, 2011

2011 Greener Package Awards recognize data-driven results

Stricter entry requirements for this year's awards ensure that the 10 winners of the 2011 competition are providing measurable sustainable differences.

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