Sustainable Packaging

Letting the 'greenie' out of the bottle?

Every consumer packaged goods company (CPGC) has a stake in the debate over whether bottled water is bad for the environment.

August 2, 2007

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Cartoning

More lessons learned

PW asked for your packaging advice, and more than 440 shared their wisdom and insights.

July 11, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainability news & events

Noteworthy Items Gleaned From World News

July 11, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Responsible sourcing and usage of paperboard-based materials

Although the modern concept of sustainability has actually been around for decades, this topic has never been more relevant to the packaging industry than today. Initiatives such as the Wal-Mart sustainability scorecard show that marketplace demand for sustainable packaging solutions is growing exponentially. Sustainable packaging is larger than recycling and being a good corporate citizen—it’s a concept beginning to realize its potential to change the marketplace and provide benefits to individuals and society.

July 11, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Reduce, reuse, and recycle

Hewlett-Packard, ranked 11th on the 2006 Fortune 500 list of largest American corporations, practices sustainability on a global scale. If you ask Jill Wollam, a packaging engineer and new product planner for HP’s LaserJet supplies, for insights on how a packaging organization can make sustainability actionable, you receive recommendations that any packager—on the Fortune 500 list or not—can immediately apply.

July 11, 2007

Secondary Packaging

Packaging's contribution to social equity

Sustainable packaging is widely perceived as a three-legged stool. Packaging professionals focus a lot of attention on two of those legs, the “environmental” and the “economic.” What about the third leg, “social equity?” That’s the one that has us measure a business’s success not only in terms of profit made but also in terms of the positive impact the business has on society in general.

July 11, 2007

Flexibles

Europe at the forefront of fiber-based packaging technology

SustainPack, a four-year European research program, aims to make sustainable packaging an industry standard by 2015. The consortium, which is made up of 35 partners from 13 countries, will encourage the use of traditional, natural-based packaging products by producing easily degradable, renewable, and recyclable packaging based on biopolymers, paper, and board.

July 11, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

'Greening' brings concentrated thoughts

Seven key questions to ask if you are considering packaging source reduction via concentrated reformulations.

July 9, 2007

Contract Packaging

Pharma Business Growing At Praxis

Macatawa Holdings LLC-Praxis (www.praxispackaging.com), Grand Rapids, MI, projects that pharmaceutical orders will account for 90% of its overall business in 2007. The pharmaceutical industry always has been a large portion of the company’s customer base, but this year pharmaceuticals sales are expected to exceed all previous years’ sales in this category by 20%.

June 30, 2007

Contract Packaging

Sam's Club Packaging Principles

In the December 2006 issue, Contract Packaging discussed strategies for enhancing the value of packaging for club stores (www.packworld.com/view-22428). Amy Zettlemoyer, director of packaging for Sam’s Club, expands on that article by identifying five packaging principles that consumer packaged goods companies and their vendors, including contract packagers, should keep in mind:

June 30, 2007

Flexibles

Recycled films

Klöckner Pentaplast has partnered with Packaging 2.0 LLC to introduce SmartCycle™ 150 PETE films.

June 12, 2007

Contract Packaging

CP 07 focuses on maximizing relationships

Event is Sept. 10-12. High-level speakers to examine contract packaging trends from both the buyer and seller perspectives.

June 11, 2007

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainability news & events

n San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors voted in March to become the first U.S. city to ban plastic bags from large supermarkets. Under the legislation, large supermarkets and drugstores will not be allowed to offer plastic bags made from petroleum products. Backers said the ban would annually save 450,000 gallons of oil and divert 1,400 tons of debris from area landfills. The new rules would, however, allow recyclable plastic bags. News reports say that Mayor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign the bill into law.

June 11, 2007