Expert analysis

Reduce or recycle: What’s better for the environment?

May 4, 2009

Tom Szaky CEO, TerraCycle
Recycler

Maverick recycler Szaky uses Stonyfield Farm’s yogurt cups as an example to illustrate how the sustainability benefits of light-weighting packaging can sometimes outweigh the perceived advantages of recycling. greenerpackage.com/node/461

Thomas Oris Procurement Manager, Morton Salt
Packager

Sustainability and the Obama Administration
Oris contemplates the implications for packagers of President Obama’s budget plans, and whether recycling will play any part in the president’s efforts to increase clean energy sources. greenerpackage.com/node/524

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Each of the three Revive & Recovery cartons carries a scented spot varnish, cued by a small 'Scratch & Sniff' callout above the rollerball graphic.

Icy Hot's Scratch-and-Sniff Carton Solves a Shelf Problem

Brand owner Opella encapsulated its actual product fragrance oil and mixed it into a standard spot varnish on its products’ carton. That means no sticker application on otherwise recyclable paperboard, no new packaging equipment, and no more shoppers tearing open glued end cartons to smell the new fragrances inside.

Changing from one sauce to another can be done quickly, which will help the firm move into contract packaging in the future. The switch from cups to pouches has greatly streamlined operations. Hot-filling and barrier film help provide the four-week refrigerated shelf life that the restaurant depends on.

Portion Packaging Brings Big Efficiencies

A provider places an order into a Zipline Dropbox at a designated BayCare site. Zipline’s electric drone autonomously retrieves the order then quietly flies to its destination.

Drone Delivery Puts Pharma Packaging to the Test

Kenvue’s Sustainable Innovation Profiler helps product and packaging teams evaluate environmental performance across four metrics, including Packaging Circularity. The company has made an abridged version of the methodology behind the tool publicly available for others to review and apply.

Kenvue Profiler Brings Packaging Circularity Into Development

What You Think You Know About Product Marking Has Changed

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Greener Corporation

What Can You Package on a Vertical Form/Fill/Seal Machine?

Quality Control Masters: The Ultimate Guide to Packaging Inspection Equipment

A Look into the World of Cartoning Equipment

A Look at Feeding and Inserting Equipment on the Packaging Line

Icy Hot's Scratch-and-Sniff Carton Solves a Shelf Problem

Portion Packaging Brings Big Efficiencies

Drone Delivery Puts Pharma Packaging to the Test

Kenvue Profiler Brings Packaging Circularity Into Development

What You Think You Know About Product Marking Has Changed

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