Sustainability

Kleincepts, Inc.: Eco-innovation reduces waste from plastic water bottles

New multiple re-use Eco Connect Bottles® let consumers turn empties into practical items like tables, toys, storage cubes and trash bins.

April 25, 2017

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Sustainable Packaging

L’Oréal USA reports on sustainability goals

Company reports advancements in the areas of reduced carbon emissions, less waste and water usage, and improved packaging, among other successes.

April 24, 2017

Sustainability

Lightweight antiperspirant cans reduce carbon footprint by 18%

Unilever switches to a lighter-weight aluminum aerosol can for two of its antiperspirant products in Europe.

April 24, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Fluorescent markers could jumpstart U.K. recycling

Brunel University London develops a set of invisible phosphor inks that can be coated onto labels and detected by UV to speed the sorting of plastics during recycling.

April 23, 2017

Sustainable Packaging

Target unveils five new sustainable packaging goals

Among them, elimination of EPS for its owned brand product packaging, adding How2Recycle labels on more of its packaging, and creating end-use markets for recycled materials.

April 18, 2017

Flexibles

How flexibles can take market share from glass packaging

Flexible packaging needs to work on its premium credentials and sustainability to capture market share from glass packaging, says a new report from GlobalData.

April 17, 2017

Labels

Packaging, not product, is at the core of PepsiCo’s LIFEWTR

PepsiCo introduces a premium water brand that features artwork from emerging artists to leverage the popularity of social media and connect with consumers in an inspirational way.

April 15, 2017

Sustainability

Does PET lightweighting really reduce the carbon footprint?

New research explores how the lightweighting of PET water bottles along with the choice of bottle design, color, label, ink, and adhesive affects post-consumer waste sorting and recycling systems.

April 7, 2017

Filling/capping, liquid & viscous

E-beam sterilization for aseptic packaging showcased at ProFood Tech

Tetra Pak introduces two new filling machines with electron-beam sterilization technology to round out its eBeam line. Also new, two new portion-pack carton sizes for on-the-go snacking.

April 5, 2017

Containers

Clear retortable plastic can debuts

McCall Farms is first to commercialize this three-piece coextruded plastic can. Product visibility is the key, but it certainly helps that for the most part it’s a drop-in replacement for steel cans.

March 29, 2017

Containers

The Packaging Conference delivers—again

HDPE for use in ISBM, BIO-SA as a drop-in replacement for IPA, press-formed paper, recycling via pyrolysis, and a possible return to packaging for PEN—all covered at TPC 2017.

March 28, 2017

Home

Skinny budget pares EPA; direct impact on packaging unlikely

Change is coming.

March 28, 2017

Sustainability

Robot programmed to separate cartons in recycling stream

Nicknamed ‘Clarke,’ a robotic system used in a pilot program has learned to identify a wide variety of food and beverage cartons to grab and separate them from the recycling stream.

March 23, 2017