Sustainability

PLA-bottled beverages couple with compact, on-site compost unit

Naturally Iowa offers foodservice and institutional customers a composting solution for its PLA beverage bottles.

February 24, 2009

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Sustainable Packaging

Packaging is the answer to world hunger

Read this position paper prepared jointly by the World Packaging Organisation and the International Packaging Press Organization.

February 24, 2009

Sustainability

Lance invests in its future

As an aging fleet of bagging systems is replaced over a three-year period, payback comes through enhanced performance of both combination scales and vf/f/s systems.

February 1, 2009

Sustainability

Feedback on oxo-biodegradables

Research leading up to last month’s Lead Off column included a call to the Biodegradable Products Institute, whose executive director comments here.

February 1, 2009

Sustainability

Procter & Gamble sustainability tips, insights

Tony Burns, associate director, sustainability, for P&G’s Global Package and Device Development (GPDD) group, says the company has learned several important lessons during its corporate sustainability journey.

February 1, 2009

Sustainable Packaging

P&G's report focuses on energy, waste, and emissions reductions

Procter & Gamble Company’s 2008 Sustainability Report—the 10th annual version of its kind—entitled “Designed to Innovate…Sustainably,” outlines P&G’s approach to sustainable development.

February 1, 2009

Sustainability

P&G provides leadership in sustainable packaging journey

With more than 300 brands sold all around the world, Procter & Gamble utilizes just about every packaging material available. Tony Burns shares his views on how P&G rises to the sustainable packaging challenge.

February 1, 2009

Sustainability

Bioplastics, bioresins adding new dimensions

February 1, 2009

Flexibles

Sustainable design ideas

There is no one right approach, but our cross-functional experts agree that any attempt requires homework and the need to extend a branding strategy rather than replace it.

February 1, 2009

Flexibles

Sustainability news & events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned from World News

February 1, 2009

Flexibles

Europeans Bullish on the Growth of the Bioplastics Industry

The third annual European Bioplastics Conference was held in Berlin in November.

February 1, 2009

Sustainable Packaging

Greener in Europe: Mars' tin

Mars in the U.K. changed a container from tin to plastic to reduce its carbon footprint.

January 31, 2009

Sustainability

Prudence remains compulsory in packaging

As policy makers attempting to fix the nation’s economy seek a balance between big-time government intervention and America’s passionate belief in free markets, many economists are turning conventional wisdom on its head.

January 30, 2009