Sustainability

Winners of Metsä’s Sustainable Design Challenge Share Insights

Winners of Metsä Board’s Better with Less – Design Challenge provide perspectives on what inspired their submissions and what is needed to expand sustainable packaging design.

April 10, 2023

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Sustainable Packaging

Nestlé, ScottsMiracle-Gro, and Les Jardins de Gaïa Introduce Refillable Packaging Innovations

ThePackHub

See a few examples of refillable packaging innovations by Nestlé, ScottsMiracle-Gro, and Les Jardins de Gaïa from ThePackHub’s March Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

April 10, 2023

Sustainability

Avery Dennison Implements Carbon Trust Footprinting Tool

Avery Dennison

As part of its commitment to its 2030 sustainability goals, the company will use the tool to better assess the water and carbon impacts of its label products.

April 10, 2023

Flexibles

Toppan Wins Gold at Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design Awards

TOPPAN Holdings Inc.

Retortable PP mono-material stand-up pouch adopted by Flavour Makers takes top prize for Sustainable Packaging Design

April 10, 2023

Flexible packaging

Frito-Lay and Quaker Go All In on Compostables

A new Greenhouse Learning Lab enables PepsiCo’s food divisions fast-track compostable packaging materials by enabling them to field test, measure, and analyze the materials on-site.

April 6, 2023

Sustainability

Sonoco Releases White Paper on Steps to Increase Paper Can Recyclability

Sonoco

The report details the market landscape in Europe and the U.S., and how the use of rigid paper cans can reduce the amount of waste to landfill.

April 6, 2023

Sustainability

Countdown to interpack 2023

At interpack 2023, the latest technologies and innovations, from circular economy to digitalization, will be on display.

April 5, 2023

Sustainability

Tetra Pak Unveils Recycling Collaborations, Investments

Tetra Pak Inc.

Prior to Earth Day 2023, Tetra Pak unveiled some of its recent recycling initiatives that are helping to turn all components of a used carton package into quality materials and goods.

April 5, 2023

Package Design

Chocxo Goes Plastic Neutral to Help Fight Plastic Waste

Chocxo, the indulgent, lower sugar, organic chocolate brand, is now Certified Plastic Neutral through a partnership with rePurpose Global, the world’s leading Plastic Action Platform.

April 5, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

McDonald's, Nestlé, and Jägermeister Adjust Packaging for Sustainability

ThePackHub

See a few examples of sustainable packaging innovations by McDonald's, Nestlé, and Jägermeister from ThePackHub’s March Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

April 4, 2023

Sustainability

Indorama Ventures, Evertis Collaborate on PET Food Tray Packaging

Evertis

Indorama Ventures Public Co. and Evertis are collaborating to use flake from recycled PET trays to produce PET film suitable for food packaging trays.

April 4, 2023

Sustainability

PlasticFree Platform Empowers Designers

A new online platform from A Plastic Planet contains hundreds of case histories, a library of alternative materials, and other tools to educate designers on plastic-free solutions.

March 31, 2023

Flexible packaging

Pros and Cons of Mono and Multi-Layer Materials for Packaging

This video looks at the pros and cons of mono and multi-layer materials as a sustainable packaging choice, and provides examples and descriptions of each.

March 29, 2023