Sustainable Packaging

Cooler return program is a ‘win-win’ for lab

UC-Berkeley’s Glaunsinger Lab reduces environmental impact by reusing coolers for its temperature-sensitive reagents, chemicals and kits.

February 8, 2018

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Protective/transport packaging

Grimmway Farms gains economic, environmental benefits

By switching from wood to ‘pooled’ pallets, the global produce company reduces solid waste, carbon emissions, and travel costs.

February 6, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Has sustainable packaging arrived?

Without much fanfare, McDonald’s revealed on its website a commitment to eliminate polystyrene drink containers from its entire system by the end of 2018.

February 5, 2018

Secondary Packaging

Building Markets in Milk

This co-manufacturer is betting on a new American appetite for shelf-stable milk. Though much of the U.S. isn’t ready for shelf-stability in its everyday milk, Gossner is a first mover on specialty, value-added milk products that lay a foundation for turning the larger adoption tide.

February 5, 2018

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Packaging professionals need to define and understand e-commerce better to respond to challenges posed by online grocery ordering

It’s easy to get swept up in the recent reports about the astonishing growth of e-commerce. How grocery sales will be affected, and the ramifications for food and beverage CPGs as well as makers of packaging materials and machinery, are harder to pin down.

February 1, 2018

Flexibles

Video highlights value of paper sack recycling

As part of a recycling awareness campaign, The Paper Shipping Sack Manufacturers’ Assn. releases a video highlighting the benefits of recycling clean, unlined shipping sacks with OCC.

January 31, 2018

Protective/transport packaging

Meal kits get insulated, curbside-recyclable box liner

San Francisco-based healthy meal kit delivery service Sun Basket switches to a 100% recyclable box liner that is also 1-in. thinner than its previous material and reduces box size by 25%.

January 29, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

AMERIPEN talks packaging, policy for 2018

Kyla Fisher, AMERIPEN Program Manager, and Andy Hackman, Principal Lobbyist, discuss the organization’s work around policies related to packaging and the environment, and offer predictions for 2018.

January 27, 2018

Sustainability

100% rPET for evian by 2025

Bottled water company evian takes a circular approach to its packaging supply chain, committing to the use of 100% rPET bottles by 2025 by engaging in three strategies.

January 24, 2018

Sustainability

Coca-Cola to collect/recycle equivalent of its packaging sold

The company and its global network of bottling partners will tackle the goal through a renewed focus on the entire packaging life cycle.

January 23, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

McDonald’s makes significant commitments to packaging sustainability

Among them, 100% of materials to come from renewable, recycled, or FSC-certified materials by 2025, and recycling of 100% of packaging in its restaurants, also by 2025.

January 22, 2018

Sustainability

Suntory continues to pursue 100% plant-based bottle

Additional investment in technology continues progress towards the development and commercialization of cost-competitive 100% bio-based plastics for use in beverage bottles.

January 18, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

First-ever Europe-wide strategy launched to address plastic waste

The European Strategy for Plastics commits to 100% recyclable plastics in the EU by 2030, a reduction in single-use plastics, and the restriction of microplastics, among other goals.

January 16, 2018