Sustainable Packaging

Field Guide to Sustainable Packaging due out soon

Editor’s Note: Convinced that the need for reliable information and insight on the subject of sustainable packaging has never been greater,

September 5, 2007

Sustainability: Page 308

Sustainability

Sustainable packaging operations

Sustainability goes far beyond creating a package from a renewable or recyclable substrate or designing a package to minimize its environmental footprint.

September 5, 2007

Flexibles

Breaking through performance thresholds

One perfect word summarizes the sustainable packaging movement:less.

September 5, 2007

Coding, Printing & Labeling

5-gal water bottles vended using RFID

RFID technology plays a fundamental role in an environmentally based business proposition from S2C Global Systems (www.s2cglobal.com),

September 5, 2007

Flexibles

Liquid dairy packaging offers global opportunities

Worldwide, nearly 270 billion packs were used in 2006 for liquid dairy products, including white,

September 5, 2007

Sustainability

A look under the hood at Tetra Pak

Tetra Pak hosted a late August media update of marketing and technical topics.

September 4, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

New book makes sense of sustainable packaging

Acclaimed new book breaks through the clutter to offer practical strategies, tactics and resources to jump start your sustainable packaging program. Included are case histories and interviews with leading corporations that have adopted environmental stewardship programs.

September 4, 2007

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

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