Sustainability

Revisiting Las Vegas

Their 2005 visit to Pack Expo Las Vegas yielded big dividends, so these two packaging professionals plan a return to Vegas for another look-see.

August 9, 2007

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Flexibles

French Rabbit came first

Boisset’s first alternative package for wine was French Rabbit, a 1-L Tetra Pak Prisma®. Like Yellow Jersey, this paper/foil/polymer lamination was launched through Ontario’s LCBO and was driven largely by environmental concerns. The promotional tag line accompanying the launch: “One smart rabbit. Savour the wine. Save the planet.”

August 9, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

SUSTAINABILITY NEWS & Events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned From World News

August 9, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Package design for a sustainable future

Pressure on business to embrace sustainability is increasing daily. The most widely-accepted response for sustainable packaging is a "cradle-to-cradle" approach that inspires design and engineering of packaging systems that balance health, environment, and safety benefits with bottom-line cost considerations.

August 9, 2007

Sustainability

No tolerance required

EPA proposal would make it easier to get some new food packaging approved, especially for produce.

August 9, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

The technology behind the most cost-effective, flexible sustainable packages

Food, personal hygiene, pharmaceutical, industrial, and chemical companies, along with many others, are looking today for ways to make packaging more sustainable. Read this White Paper from J&J to find out how to attain sustainability, flexibility, and superior price and performance.

August 9, 2007

Sustainability

The vinyl frontier: Dispelling myths about PVC and sustainability

Assessing the facts about polyvinyl chloride ends up dispelling myths about this oft-maligned, but invaluable polymer used extensively in packaging.

August 2, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Letting the 'greenie' out of the bottle?

Every consumer packaged goods company (CPGC) has a stake in the debate over whether bottled water is bad for the environment.

August 2, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainability news & events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned From World News

July 11, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Responsible sourcing and usage of paperboard-based materials

Although the modern concept of sustainability has actually been around for decades, this topic has never been more relevant to the packaging industry than today. Initiatives such as the Wal-Mart sustainability scorecard show that marketplace demand for sustainable packaging solutions is growing exponentially. Sustainable packaging is larger than recycling and being a good corporate citizen—it’s a concept beginning to realize its potential to change the marketplace and provide benefits to individuals and society.

July 11, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Reduce, reuse, and recycle

Hewlett-Packard, ranked 11th on the 2006 Fortune 500 list of largest American corporations, practices sustainability on a global scale. If you ask Jill Wollam, a packaging engineer and new product planner for HP’s LaserJet supplies, for insights on how a packaging organization can make sustainability actionable, you receive recommendations that any packager—on the Fortune 500 list or not—can immediately apply.

July 11, 2007

Secondary Packaging

Packaging's contribution to social equity

Sustainable packaging is widely perceived as a three-legged stool. Packaging professionals focus a lot of attention on two of those legs, the “environmental” and the “economic.” What about the third leg, “social equity?” That’s the one that has us measure a business’s success not only in terms of profit made but also in terms of the positive impact the business has on society in general.

July 11, 2007

Flexibles

Europe at the forefront of fiber-based packaging technology

SustainPack, a four-year European research program, aims to make sustainable packaging an industry standard by 2015. The consortium, which is made up of 35 partners from 13 countries, will encourage the use of traditional, natural-based packaging products by producing easily degradable, renewable, and recyclable packaging based on biopolymers, paper, and board.

July 11, 2007