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Bio-based
Nestlé Continues to Embrace Paper with New Quality Street Tub
The new paper-based carton for Quality Street sweets for Christmas offers the same shape and brand color, but is now 100% curbside recyclable.
October 21, 2024
The paper carton for Quality Street enables more boxes to fit on a pallet and is said to have the potential to reduce CO2 emissions significantly. Image courtesy of Smurfit Westrock.
Sustainability
The Major CPGs Committing to Carbon Emission Reduction Pledges
Companies like Amazon, Coca-Cola, Unilever, and more have set their sustainability goalposts over the next decades with these carbon emission goals and pledges.
October 18, 2024
Companies are examining their entire operations, including the impacts of those they work with, to lower their carbon emissions.
Package Design
Frank's RedHot, e.l.f. Cosmetics, and Don Smallgoods Introduce Packaging Designed for User Engagement
ThePackHub
See a few examples of packaging innovations designed for user engagement from Frank's RedHot, e.l.f. Cosmetics, and Don Smallgoods from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
October 18, 2024
Frank's RedHot's new PET bottle mirrors the shape and details of the original glass bottle while adding usability features.
Package Design
Google Writes, and Shares, the Book on Plastic-Free Packaging
Available to all brands, Google’s ‘Plastic-Free Packaging Design Guide’ details the solutions it developed to eliminate plastic from its packaging, including technologies and suppliers.
October 17, 2024
David Bourne of Google shared the company’s journey to develop 100% plastic-free packaging by 2023.
Bio-based
Paper Cable Ties Eliminate 1,200 Miles Worth of Plastic Ties
After removing the plastic blister and plastic cable tie from its blister card packaging, Munchkin replaces them with a paper cable tie and backing plate, for 133,000 lb less plastic.
October 16, 2024
For product categories such as these infant spoons, Munchkin is using a new paper cable tie with a molded pulp backing plate to hold the products in place on the blister card.
Recycling
Colgate, Amazon Report ‘History-Making’ Progress with AI for Recycling
AI provider Glacier develops custom programs for Colgate and Amazon to detect tube and bioplastic packaging, respectively, as it makes its way through MRF sorting systems.
October 15, 2024
As Rebecca Hu of Glacier and Greg Corra of Colgate-Palmolive explained, AI is enabling the collection of tube recycling data in real time at the MRF.
Operational Excellence
Packaging Consultants Council is Back
The Institute of Packaging Professionals (IoPP) has relaunched the PCC as a central hub for companies seeking packaging experts and consultants with diverse industry experience.
October 14, 2024
Rob Kaszubowski, managing director, packaging optimization, NTT DATA
PMMI News
Packaging Machinery Market Likely to See Slowest Growth Since 2020
The U.S. packaging machinery market is expected to see a short-lived dip in growth in 2024 but pick up speed in the years ahead.
October 11, 2024
Pandemic-related backlogs in machinery purchases largely cleared by late 2023, resulting in a decline in market growth.
Recycling
A Pizza Hut Box’s Trip from Table, to Recycling, to Table Again
A collaborative initiative between Pizza Hut and Smurfit WestRock aims to enhance pizza box recyclability, addressing challenges and promoting sustainable practices across diverse U.S. municipalities.
October 10, 2024
'It's not a myth, we do use it when it's picked up from your curbside,' said Lisa Bowles Smurfit WestRock at SPC Advance of pizza boxes in recycling streams.
Bio-based
Starbucks, McDonald's, and 4 RE Introduce Bio-Based and Compostable Packaging Solutions
ThePackHub
See a few examples of bio-based and compostable packaging innovations from Starbucks, McDonald's, and 4 RE from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
October 10, 2024
Starbucks is trialing its fiber-based cold cups in the U.K. to ensure the new material can offer the same performance as existing solutions.
Recycling
Coca-Cola Creates Closed-Loop Stadium Recycling System
Partnering with closed-loop venues as well as MRFs and reclaimers, Coca-Cola is ensuring recycled bottles and cans end up back in its packaging.
October 10, 2024
Jim Velky, senior director of sustainability, Coca-Cola
Recycling
New Film Recycling Directory, Validated Data, Breathe Life into Store Drop-Off
At SPC Advance a panel of General Mills, RRS, PLASTICS, & GreenBlue's How2Recycle claimed accelerating progress behind flexible film recycling, store drop-off, and wider film recycling thanks to the newly formed Flexible Film Recycling Alliance (FFRA)
October 9, 2024
(from left) Johnson, Keenan, and Nowak dissect store drop-off, How2Recycle's label designation, underlying data, and the future of flexible film recycling.
Recycling
Key Lessons from Early EPR Adopters
As EPR laws are refined and implemented, policymakers and stakeholders can learn from each state’s experiences, potentially leading to more harmonized and effective EPR frameworks in the future.
October 9, 2024
Dan Felton, executive director, AMERIPEN
Sustainable Packaging
McCormick: Reducing Scope 3 Emissions is a ‘Strategic Imperative’
Michael Okoroafor of McCormick & Company discusses how the company’s sustainability efforts are not only good for the environment, but also ensure its global suppliers thrive ‘in perpetuity.’
October 8, 2024
Michael Okoroafor, chief sustainability officer, McCormick & Company
Operational Excellence
Looking Back to Look Forward: 6 Long-Term Packaging Trends to Watch
According to PTIS, the industry is about to embark on a transformation driven toward a circular economy of packaging where recycling plays a role but coupled with far more reusable/refillable and compostable packs, driven by the digitization of packaging.
October 7, 2024
PTIS and its partners look beyond current trends to identify the potential for Horizon 3—transformational changes that could dramatically impact how packaging is produced, sold, and integrated into the circular economy.
Contract Packaging
Report: Strong Growth Ahead for Contract Packaging
Download PMMI's new Business Intelligence Report to learn what is driving brands to outsource right now, and what they're looking for in contractors.
October 7, 2024
2024 Contract Packaging & Manufacturing Report Cover
Recycling
Column: Can Optical AI Help Revive Undersubscribed Recycling Systems?
U.S. recycling habits are suboptimal to say the least, and brands are getting tight-lipped about their sustainability efforts for fear of being accused of greenwashing given so little material gets recycled. Can vastly improved sortation help the streams?
October 7, 2024
Brian Sano (left) of Oscar Sort demonstrates the system to Patrick Keenan of General Mills.
Contract Packaging
CPA to Launch New AI-Driven RFQ Tool
CPA's booth N-4511 will highlight a new AI-driven tool to help brands and co-packers connect, and it's free for brands.
October 7, 2024
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