Sustainable Packaging

Report: ‘2018 was a very good year for bio-based polymers’

The most important market drivers in 2018 were brands that wanted to offer their customers environmentally-friendly solutions and critical consumers looking for alternatives to petrochemicals.

February 17, 2019

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E-commerce/D2C packaging

Brands redesign packaging for e-commerce shipping

CPGs make changes to existing packages to provide greater product protection, eliminate product leakage, reduce the amount of dunnage needed to secure the product, or solve other shipping-related issues.

February 14, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

EarthCoating awarded Triple A certification for recyclability from The Green Dot

Smart Planet Technologies’ reCUP recyclable paper cup with EarthCoating is awarded the highest-possible certification for recycling from The Green Dot in Europe.

February 13, 2019

Contract Packaging

CPA to participate in 2019 ProFood Tech Partner Program

CPA’s Sourcing Center booth will provide information to attendees on CPA members’ packaging and manufacturing services and how to engage these service providers.

February 13, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Caps collection program gets kids thinking sustainably early

We’ve all seen increased sustainability activity with CPGs commitments to the environment, but there is a small company in Evansville, IN that created a grass roots recycling effort eight years ago and it continues to grow.

February 12, 2019

Protective/transport packaging

Meal kit company tackles sustainable packaging

San Francisco-based Sun Basket only uses packaging that is 100% recyclable or compostable for the 1.5 to 2 million certified-organic meals it produces each month.

February 12, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge seeks solutions to single-use plastics

National Geographic and Sky Ocean Ventures have launched a competition that will focus on three strategic ways to address the growing issue of plastic pollution.

February 11, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Plasma gasification closes the loop (on sustainability)

The traditional approach of ‘reduce, reuse, recycle’ needs to be replaced with a new paradigm focused on converting terminal packaging waste into recovered products and energy.

February 11, 2019

E-commerce

Nestlé’s reusable ice cream container for Loop keeps contents cold

A new reusable, stainless-steel double-walled container for Häagen-Dazs keeps ice cream fresh and cold from filling to delivery at consumers’ homes, as part of the new Loop shopping platform.

February 9, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

P&G designs 11 refillable, reusable products and packaging for Loop shopping platform

Among the brands are Pantene, Tide, Cascade, and Oral-B, as well as hygiene products Pampers and Always, which will test collection and recycling of used products.

February 9, 2019

Sustainability

Transportation enables Loop's circularity

A collaboration between UPS and TerraCycle results in the creation of a reusable shipper, the Loop Tote, optimized to flow smoothly through UPS’s transportation process and provide consumer convenience.

February 9, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Unilever innovates two new product formats for Loop

A refillable stainless-steel deodorant package and new toothpaste tablets are among the innovations developed by Unilever for the Loop circular shopping platform.

February 9, 2019

Sustainability

Loop complements Mondelēz’s waste-reduction strategies

Aligning with Mondelez’s new ‘snacking made right’ strategy, a new stainless steel, reusable container for its Milka brand, designed for the Loop platform, eliminates packaging waste.

February 9, 2019