Sustainable Packaging

Three factors driving the global biodegradable polymers market

A new report looks at the current state of the global biodegradable polymers market as well as its potential for future growth based on three drivers.

January 22, 2017

Business Drivers/Specialty: Page 338

Sustainable Packaging

Unilever commits to 100% recyclable plastic packaging by 2025

Other packaging-related goals include finding a solution to multilayer film recycling and creating a plastics protocol for the fast-moving consumer goods industry.

January 21, 2017

Sustainability

P&G unveils first recyclable shampoo bottle made with ‘beach plastic’

Beginning this summer, P&G will offer its Head & Shoulders shampoo in a limited-edition recyclable bottle made in part from material collected from plastic waste found on beaches.

January 19, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Five Cold Chain Trends Shaping 2017

Heading into 2016, lifescience cold chain trends to watch included passive vs active bulk shippers and the growth of biologics and biosimilars and the patent cliff. Some of these trends will continue into 2017, but here are five additional trends shaping the lifescience cold chain.

January 19, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Singapore’s sustainable packaging mandate is coming

It makes all the sense in the world to get out in front of this impending regulation rather than scrambling to catch up with it after implementation has begun.

January 15, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Poll: Americans tend not to believe what they hear about recycling

A new survey proves that efforts by the recycling industry to fight back against common misperceptions around recycling have been successful, but more work needs to be done.

January 13, 2017

Flexibles

Drop-in bioplastic for pet-food bag

A Canadian provider of organic and non-GMO cat and dog foods extends its commitment to accountability to its packaging, with flexible bags made from bioplastic for a new product line.

January 12, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Wine capsule goes green

Recently introduced by Washington State's Snoqualmie Winery is a wine capsule sourced from a bio-based polyethylene produced from sugar cane.

January 5, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Top 10 sustainable packaging stories of 2016

See what visitors to GreenerPackage.com were reading about last year in the annual Top 10 list of most-read articles on the site.

January 2, 2017

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Top 10 of 2016 focus on e-commerce, Walmart

The top 10 articles in packworld.com’s annual countdown of most-read stories show readers’ concerns about what’s coming down the pike—in particular e-commerce and Walmart’s new case-coding requirements.

January 1, 2017

Sustainability

Tomato fiber-based packaging finds commercial applications

Canadian grower Pure Hothouse Foods and French grower Idyl switch to solid board packaging for their vegetables that is enriched with tomato plant fibers.

December 25, 2016

Flexibles

Bio-based Snickers wrapper wins top award

Four years in the making, a bio-based film wrapper for Mars' Snickers candy bar made from potato starch waste is given top honors in the 11th Global Bioplastics Awards.

December 19, 2016

Contract packaging

New Clinical Syringe Line Key Helps Vetter Meet Growing Batch Production Needs

Additional storage expansion strengthens the facilities’ ability to meet increased customer demand in prefilled syringes.

December 15, 2016