Sustainability

Plastic Handle Recycling Program Helps Close the Loop

Plastic multipack carrier producer PakTech launches its own recycling program to ensure the collection and recycling of its products.

September 25, 2019

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Collaboration Will Drive Development of Recyclable Pouches

Mespack and Dow partnership puts a hf/f/s machine at Dow’s Pack Studios to help develop and commercialize recyclable pouches.

September 24, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

New Variations in Flexible Mono-Material Packaging

PAXXUS, Inc. introduced additional variations of single-stream recycle-ready flexible materials.

September 24, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Panel Alert: White Paper on Smart Asset Technologies

Tuesday panel to introduce the new report on identification, monitoring and tracking of reusable transport packaging assets.

September 23, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Sainsbury’s Pledges to Halve Plastic Packaging by 2025

Strategies to achieve this goal include remove, reduce, reuse, and recycle initiatives, as well as collaboration with food manufacturers, packaging suppliers, the waste and recycling industry, and others.

September 21, 2019

Sustainability

Coca-Cola European Partners to Eliminate 4,000-Plus Tons of Multipack Shrink Wrap

Replacing plastic shrink wrap with 100% recyclable paperboard for its multipack cans across Western Europe will help CCEP meet its Action on Packaging commitments.

September 20, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Coca-Cola, PepsiCo Cut Ties with Plastics Association

Beverage giants exit the Plastics Industry Association after facing pressure from Greenpeace, which denounces the association’s advocacy against plastic bag bans.

September 18, 2019

Protective/transport packaging

Jenny Craig Trims the Excess from its Meal Delivery Packaging

New delivery option allows consumers to receive one-week shipments of food in a 30% smaller package fitted with compostable insulation panels made from corn.

September 15, 2019

Sustainability

Carlsberg Replaces Shrink Wrap with Adhesive for Six-Packs

The radical new technology, which uses adhesive dots to hold multipacks of cans together, is expected to decrease the Danish brewer’s use of plastic by up to 13,000 tons/year.

September 14, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Survey: 85% of consumers recycle

While a majority of respondents to a new survey report that they do recycle, 44% don’t believe that those materials are actually being recycled.

August 28, 2019

Sustainability

Dasani uncaps a record number of more-sustainable packaging options

Among them, a bottle using rPET with plant-based plastic, two new aluminum package formats, a lighter-weight PET bottle, and a package-less, customizable water dispensing system.

August 24, 2019

Protective/transport packaging

Meat delivery service uses cornstarch-based insulated coolers

NIKU Farms uses bio-based, insulated coolers made from cornstarch that are backyard compostable and biodegradable to ship its farm-to-door meat subscription boxes in Canada.

August 9, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

​Recyclable toothpaste tube brings style to hygiene

Premium toothpaste manufacturer Twice’s signature product, called The Duo, uses the packaging itself to explicitly illustrate the importance of brushing teeth twice daily.

August 8, 2019