Sustainable Packaging

Shoppers: Green packaging is a purchase tiebreaker

Two years' worth of research yields shoppers' attitudes toward green packaging.

June 4, 2009

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Sustainable Packaging

Expert analysis

June 4, 2009

Sustainable Packaging

Sound off

Frito-Lay’s SunChips snack chips have been launched in a new bag with an outer layer made from PLA. It is the first step toward the PepsiCo division’s plans to roll out a 100%-PLA bag for the snack in 2010. Will this help drive biopolymer’s popularity? Share your opinion: greenerpackage.com/node/913

June 4, 2009

Flexibles

Organic baby snacks come in redundant Method packs

“Pure serendipity.” That’s how Shazi Visram, cofounder and CEO of HappyBaby, Brooklyn, NY, describes the events that led to her company’s use of rigid plastic containers from home care company Method for its Organic Puffs finger food for babies.

June 4, 2009

Sustainability

Inspired leadership and the power of innovation

Now is not the time to innovate. Innovation involves risk, and doing anything even remotely risky is unwise in times of economic uncertainty.

June 4, 2009

Flexibles

Talking at length with an eco-revolutionary

A Q&A with Albe Zakes, eco-revolutionary and vp media relations for TerraCycle, which turns old packaging into new products.

June 3, 2009

Sustainability

Abbott develops sustainable packaging guidelines

Healthcare company revises product features and designs to limit the adverse environmental effects from manufacturing through disposal.

June 3, 2009

Sustainable Packaging

SunChips to use compostable PLA bags

Frito-Lay starts with a PLA outer layer now and a promise for compostable bags in 2010.

June 3, 2009

Sustainability

Blister packer

The Visual F1 Series blister packer, from Visual Packaging LP USA, is engineered to produce environmentally friendly packaging formats.

June 3, 2009

Sustainable Packaging

2009 Greener Package Awards competition

Entries from brand owners, suppliers, package designers, and retailers will be accepted through June 29.

May 27, 2009

Secondary Packaging

Getting enough fiber

How much fiber do your corrugated boxes need, what types, and from what sources?

May 21, 2009

Sustainable Packaging

Walmart joins GreenerPackage.com in new product database

Walmart Stores, Inc. and its Packaging Scorecard software provider ECRM have tapped GreenerPackage.com to serve as the entry point for packaging material suppliers wishing to add their sustainable product data.

May 6, 2009

Flexibles

Can you benefit from changing packaging drivers?

May 5, 2009