Sustainability

The case for rPET wine bottles

Santiago Navarro, CEO and Co-Founder of London-based Delivering Happiness Ltd., trading as Garçon Wines, discusses why the company chose PET, and in particular recycled PET, for its award-winning Flat Wine Bottle for e-commerce.

January 26, 2019

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Sustainability

Company recruits ‘army of children’ to recycle plastic caps

Green Tree Plastics establishes the ABC Promise Partnership, which enlists school children and other community groups to collect plastic caps for recycling that are then used for bench products.

January 22, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Biopolymer Materials and Technologies Flourish

As the biopolymers market for packaging gets ready to take off, the range of bio-based renewable materials and the technologies being developed or used commercially continue to expand.

January 22, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Global alliance formed, commits $1 billion to end plastic waste

Nearly 30 global companies representing the plastics value chain commit $1 billion to help end plastic waste in the environment, with the goal of investing up to $1.5 billion in the next five years.

January 21, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Single-serve packaging: the villain?

In this exclusive interview, Greener Package talks with Lynn Dyer, President of the Foodservice Packaging Institute, about the recent war on single-serve packaging, and whether it’s justified.

January 20, 2019

Sustainability

Tide packaged for E-com only

This bag-in-box format is designed specifically for e-commerce. Super-concentrated formula means just 105 oz washes the same 96 loads that a 150-oz HDPE press-tap bottle does.

January 18, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

PepsiCo closing in on recyclability goals for North American beverage packaging

PepsiCo has a stated goal that by 2025, 100% of its global packaging will be recyclable. The North American beverage side of the business is about 95% recyclable right now, according to Kathleen Niesen, Director of Recycling and Sustainability at PepsiCo North American Beverages and Quaker.

January 15, 2019

Sustainability

Report: Plastic bottle recycling declines slightly in 2017

Industry challenges include changing export markets, a 3.6% drop in material collection, and increases in single-stream collection, resulting in greater contamination of recyclables.

January 14, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

New resource reviews global packaging frameworks, standards, and definitions

As more and more brands commit to packaging goals around reusability, recyclability, compostability, etc., it is becoming more important to clarify and align definitions.

January 12, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Top 10 Greener Package stories of 2018

Efforts at home and abroad to curb the use of plastic packaging was a popular topic in 2018, especially those that involved innovative new solutions.

December 31, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

CPGs: Do you know the size of your fiber footprint?

More than 45 million acres of working forests are at risk of fragmentation or conversion for other uses, threatening the future of the paper packaging supply chain, jobs, and the environment.

December 15, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Nestlé Waters North America to achieve 25% recycled plastic by 2021

Beverage firm plans to continue expanding its use of recycled materials, with the aim of reaching 50% recycled plastic by 2025.

December 13, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Cannabis packaging, PCR material availability to be examined at The Packaging Conference 2019

The Packaging Conference, produced by PTI and SBAcci, has a decade-plus reputation as the must-attend event for the debut of new technologies and other key industry announcements.

December 5, 2018