Sustainable Packaging

Reusable Packaging Association Announces New Board Leadership for 2019

With the word ‘reuse’ being used regularly around the world to identify better packaging solutions, the Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) is committed to promoting reuse and the advantages of a reusable system.

January 31, 2019

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Sustainability

Clean, green design for ‘microdrink’ packaging

Kvell puts sustainable and sleek package design at the forefront when developing its waterdrop microdrink, a 5-g cube of powdered health and wellness ingredients that dissolves in water.

January 31, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

McCormick: Not just doing well, but doing good

Michael Okoroafor, VP, Global Sustainability & Packaging Innovation for McCormick & Co., shares insights on the company’s goals and strategies around reducing the carbon footprint of its packaging.

January 30, 2019

Sustainability

Printed ingredients could disrupt the beverage category

California-based company Smart Cups releases a line of energy drinks, with microencapsulated ingredients printed on the bottom of a disposable cup that are activated with water.

January 28, 2019

Sustainability

The case for rPET wine bottles

Santiago Navarro, CEO and Co-Founder of London-based Delivering Happiness Ltd., trading as Garçon Wines, discusses why the company chose PET, and in particular recycled PET, for its award-winning Flat Wine Bottle for e-commerce.

January 26, 2019

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

Co-packer, brand owners toast success of wine in a can

Canned wine takes off for co-packer Free Flow Wines after it adds a canning line. Also getting a boost are customers Essentially Geared and Foley Family Wines.

January 23, 2019

Sustainability

Company recruits ‘army of children’ to recycle plastic caps

Green Tree Plastics establishes the ABC Promise Partnership, which enlists school children and other community groups to collect plastic caps for recycling that are then used for bench products.

January 22, 2019

E-commerce/D2C packaging

3PL turns to automation to offset workforce shortages

Faced with a declining pool of warehouse workers and a rapidly expanding e-commerce business, third-party logistics provider ODW relies more on automated packing equipment.

January 22, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Biopolymer Materials and Technologies Flourish

As the biopolymers market for packaging gets ready to take off, the range of bio-based renewable materials and the technologies being developed or used commercially continue to expand.

January 22, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Global alliance formed, commits $1 billion to end plastic waste

Nearly 30 global companies representing the plastics value chain commit $1 billion to help end plastic waste in the environment, with the goal of investing up to $1.5 billion in the next five years.

January 21, 2019

Bag/pouch fill/seal (pre-made bags)

Report: Innovative new e-commerce at PACK EXPO

Covering 1.2 million net sq ft of exhibit space and drawing 2,500 exhibitors, PACK EXPO International brought 50,000 attendees to the biggest packaging event of the year. Here is our report on e-commerce.

January 21, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Single-serve packaging: the villain?

In this exclusive interview, Greener Package talks with Lynn Dyer, President of the Foodservice Packaging Institute, about the recent war on single-serve packaging, and whether it’s justified.

January 20, 2019

Sustainability

Tide packaged for E-com only

This bag-in-box format is designed specifically for e-commerce. Super-concentrated formula means just 105 oz washes the same 96 loads that a 150-oz HDPE press-tap bottle does.

January 18, 2019