Sustainable Packaging

Starbucks finds success with Cup-to-Cup recycling pilot

A six-week pilot proves that Cup-to-Cup recycling is achievable for Starbucks.

December 5, 2010

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Sustainable Packaging

'Green Guide' revisions: How will they affect you?

EPI dissects the proposed changes to the FTC’s Green Guides to help marketers understand the potential impact to their environmental claims.

December 2, 2010

Sustainability

Sound off!

November 28, 2010

Sustainable Packaging

Green Guides for packaging and products get an update but still have gaps

Marketers often use labeling and advertising claims about the environmental benefits of their packaging or the products in them.

November 28, 2010

Sustainability

Stonyfield Farm makes studied switch to PLA for yogurt multipacks

In a first for dairy, Stonyfield uses PLA to produce f/f/s yogurt cups, resulting in 48% less GHGs than the HIPS packaging it replaces; offsets support non-GM0 corn production.

November 27, 2010

Recycling

CPG companies look for innovation

A symposium on flexible packaging emphasizes the enormous growth potential for material suppliers and converters that bring new solutions to leading CPG companies.

November 13, 2010

Bio-based

SunChips fiasco: a missed opportunity?

November 13, 2010

Flexibles

The case of the compostable chip package-Part 2

The sun has all but set on the Sun Chips® bag, but not without giving rise to a host of issues.

October 19, 2010

Sustainability

European juice packager pioneers first extrusion-blown PLA bottle

Polenghi of Italy employs a low carbon-footprint bioplastic bottle for its new Bio organic lemon juice brand.

October 19, 2010

Flexibles

Stonyfield Farm makes switch to PLA for yogurt multipacks

In a first for dairy, Stonyfield uses PLA to produce f/f/s yogurt cups, resulting in 48% less GHGs than the PS packaging it replaces; offsets support non-GM corn production.

October 13, 2010

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If a tree falls in a forest...

October 12, 2010

Flexibles

A crinkle in SunChips' bio-based bag plans

Frito-Lay is replacing most of the plant-based packaging for its SunChips brand snack chip due to consumer complaints that the bag is too noisy.

October 7, 2010

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Are biodegradable plastics an antidote to non-recycled packaging waste?

White paper challenges the assumption that biodegradable plastics in landfills are an inadequate end-of-life solution compared to recycling or composting. The reality is plastic is going into landfills in enormous amounts, and biodegradability can confer advantages to such landfilled plastic packaging waste.

September 23, 2010