Plastics/resins

Custom bottle hits the sweet spot for Butternut Mountain Farm

Maple syrup producer faces challenges in creating a lightweight, plastic bottle for a private-label brand that could be integrated within its existing line.

February 26, 2018

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Sustainability

Nestlé Pure Life gets 100% rPET bottle

Nestlé Waters North America aims to inspire consumers to recycle by debuting new bottles for its Nestlé Pure Life Purified Water made entirely from recycled ones.

February 20, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Recycling rigid plastic packaging

Plastic, often regarded as an environmental villain, can be an environmental hero, with the right embrace of recycling.

February 20, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Dunkin’ Donuts to eliminate foam cups by 2020

Coffee and donut franchise to begin moving from foam to paper cups in spring 2018, with the goal of fully transitioning by 2020, removing 1 billion foam cups annually from the waste stream.

February 15, 2018

Recycling

Gifting gets personalized

Cadbury in the UK makes it possible to deliver a personalized Valentine’s Day gift using an innovative digital packaging technology.

February 14, 2018

Recycling

Pharmapack Europe awards device innovators

BIOCORP, West Pharmaceutical and sfm win honors in the ‘Exhibitor Innovation’ category, while UCB Pharma, GSK Consumer Health and Laboratoires Virbac earn recognition in the ‘Health Product’ area.

February 13, 2018

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Annie’s, organic snack food producer, develops sustainable packaging roadmap for using metallized film

Flexible packaging films with complex, multi-layer structures are hard to collect and recycle. Berkeley, CA-based Annie’s unveils their road map for rolling out snacks packaged in recyclable metallized film at Sustainability in Packaging US. in Chicago, March 12-14.

February 12, 2018

Plastics/resins

Hand-soap bottle first to use revolutionary form/fill process

At The Packaging Conference, LiquiForm Group introduces the first commercial application for its form/fill technology: a 12-oz PET container for the Nature’s Promise brand of hand soap.

February 9, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Cooler return program is a ‘win-win’ for lab

UC-Berkeley’s Glaunsinger Lab reduces environmental impact by reusing coolers for its temperature-sensitive reagents, chemicals and kits.

February 8, 2018

Plastics/resins

PET container with integrated handle available in 2-L

At The Packaging Conference, Pretium Packaging announces the addition of a 2-L size to its SureHandle platform of PET containers with integrated handle.

February 7, 2018

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Cannabis packaging—a snapshot

Whether you see it as a return to the Wild West or the opportunity of a lifetime, the cannabis industry has arrived. But be forewarned: its most distinguishing characteristic is rapid change.

February 5, 2018

Sustainable Packaging

Has sustainable packaging arrived?

Without much fanfare, McDonald’s revealed on its website a commitment to eliminate polystyrene drink containers from its entire system by the end of 2018.

February 5, 2018

Containers

Rockit apples set to blast off

A brand new apple cultivar developed in New Zealand is introduced to the market in an equally novel packaging format. And now a Shuttle Pack has been launched in addition to the tube.

February 5, 2018