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Sustainability

Research: Wine, over time, doesn't hold up as well in plastic bottles or bag-in-box packaging

Researchers in France find that white wine loses freshness, taste within six months in single-layer and multilayer PET bottles and bag-in-box. Red wine also loses some stability.

May 14, 2010

Sustainable Packaging

OFF THE SHELF: Method's 8x concentrated detergent

Cleaning products maker Method has gone green big time by coming up with an 8x concentrated laundry detergent. Jim George delivers a few observations about the packaging of this clever product.

May 14, 2010

Sustainability

Refresh your perspective on water bottles

An easy environmental target, water bottles offer benefits around the globe that occasionally receive media attention.

May 13, 2010

Sustainable Packaging

Thinking on the outside of the box

By replacing large volumes of preprinted boxes and outdated date-and-time coding equipment with low-cost, high-resolution direct-to-case coding equipment, packaging companies slash expenses and help the environment. Find out more about this and other helpful tips to becoming sustainable in this white paper from ID Technologies.

May 11, 2010

Sustainability

Register to 'attend' the DuPont Awards

Winners of the long-running DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation will be announced at a global online event, The DuPont Packaging Exchange.

May 11, 2010

Flexibles

PUMA's 'Clever Little Bag'

Sports lifestyle company PUMA has developed a greener footwear package as part of a company-wide initiative to reduce PUMA’s “paw print.”

May 11, 2010

Sustainable Packaging

Campbell Soup proves that size does matter

Reducing its Pepperidge Farm cracker carton by three-quarters of an inch nets a 300,000-lb reduction in packaging for Campbell Soup, reveals 2010 CSR report.

May 10, 2010

Flexible packaging

Industry watch

May 5, 2010

Sustainable Packaging

100% renewable material creates a new twist for pretzel packs

May 4, 2010

Flexibles

Sound off!

May 4, 2010

Sustainable Packaging

8 Tips to acing green guideline compliance

For several months, packaging suppliers have been eagerly submitting their products’ sustainability claims to third-party reviewers for the Greener Package Product Database to ensure they meet the Guidelines to Sustainability Claims.

May 4, 2010

Sustainability

90-day shelf life + sustainability gains = progress at Byrne Dairy

Byrne Dairy has a proven track record in ESL products. Now it’s using a new technology called ‘dry sterilization’ to get 90-day shelf life and get greener at the same time.

May 3, 2010