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Type: Blog
Section: Issues > Sustainability
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Recycling Focus: Sleeve Technology for Easier Recycling is Introduced for Dairy Cups
E-commerce
Packaging Trend Focus: E-commerce Channel Growth is Great Packaging Opportunity
All signs are that the e-commerce market will continue to thrive even after the COVID-19 pandemic is behind us. There is excellent opportunity for operators to find innovative ways to make online packaging both more functional and sustainable.
Sustainability
Packaging strategies for an environmentally-attuned market
Pollution of our oceans and waterways is not a new problem.
Materials & containers
Cartons’ place in packaging
Horst Bittermann, President of the European carton association Pro Carton, shares insights on the sustainability of cartons, their use in e-commerce, and new carton technologies.
Sustainability
Syngas is the Key to Packaging Sustainability
University of Florida professor Bruce Welt, Ph.D., shares the main takeaways from the first meeting of the Industry Consortium for Advanced Recycling, which took place June 12-13.
Sustainability
The case for degradability’s place alongside the three Rs
Single-use plastics and plastic packaging are under increasing pressure today, as evidenced by the growing number of taxes or outright bans on everything from plastic bags to drinking straws.
Sustainability
A new player in compostables
When last we left Zume Pizza, the Mountain View, CA, firm was busy winning a 2017 Diamond Finalist Award for its Pizza Pod in the annual DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation competition.
Sustainability
It’s a material world, Part I: How alternative materials can address the plastics problem
What do langoustine shells, nut shells, banana peels, and plastic waste have in common? They are all being trialed for use in packaging as an alternative to plastic.
Sustainability
Plasma gasification can enable circular economy sustainability for packaging
As we realize that the 3Rs approach is failing to achieve our sustainability objectives, plasma gasification stands out as the most promising solution.
Sustainability
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.
Materials & containers
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.
Sustainability
Sustainability labeling helps in purchasing decisions
With consumers skeptical about green product marketing, it’s critical that companies adopt rigorous and reputable labeling systems to build consumer awareness, understanding, and trust.
Sustainability
Is garbology accurate about packaging?
It almost seems that one can’t talk trash without mentioning packaging.
Sustainability
A Hall of Famer peers into the future
Soon to be inducted into the PMMI Packaging & Processing Hall of Fame, McCormick’s Michael Okoroafor shares a few insights.
Sustainability
Praising polyethylene
There's no need to be a chemist or a polymer engineer to understand this primer on polyethylene.
Sustainability
Plastics group acts to address marine litter issues
In this First Person column, Steve Russell, VP of Plastics at the American Chemistry Council, compliments packaging’s sustainability efforts, but packaging must provide benefits beyond its initial use as part of a ‘circular economy.’
Sustainability
The ‘airplane mode’ effect and sustainable packaging
Consumer testing finds that for shoppers, noticing and understanding sustainability claims on packaging on-shelf is as difficult as navigating a new city with your phone GPS in airplane mode.
Sustainability
Hope for recycling?
Did you know that in 2016 the one-way PET bottle recycling rate in Germany was 98%, while in the U.S. it was 28.4%, down 2.4% from 2015?
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