Sustainability

PET wine keg taps into green savings

U.K. wine seller offers premium wine-on-tap in a recyclable 20-L PET keg that replaces 27 glass bottles, eliminates waste, spoilage, and breakage, and costs customers 15% less.

October 30, 2015

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Sustainable Packaging

Trash

Each summer I spend time walking a quarter mile stretch of Lake Michigan’s eastern shoreline picking up trash.

October 30, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

Can pharmaceutical packaging be safety-compliant and sustainable?

Pharma companies will benefit from the time spent transitioning to a more sustainable model, especially as they see growing consumer satisfaction, says APP study.

October 29, 2015

Recycling

5 Key trends shaping food and beverage packaging

Dramatic changes in consumer demographics, lifestyles, and eating patterns are creating new opportunities for food and beverage packaging.

October 28, 2015

Flexibles

Constantia Flexibles opens new Competence Center for films

The state-of-the-art Competence Center is for the R&D of polymer films and film laminates.

October 22, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

Good news for 2014 PET recycling rates

U.S. PET container recycling rate for 2014 holds at 31%, while rPET usage in domestic markets hits an all-time high, according to annual NAPCOR/APR report.

October 21, 2015

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Materials suppliers offer more practical sustainability solutions

As the frenzy for elaborate and complex sustainable packaging solutions dies down, packaging suppliers are introducing more practical and easily implemented alternatives that can provide significant reductions in the environmental impact of packaging.

October 20, 2015

Cartons and boxes

Delivering what patients need next

Award-winning Multipack carton from supplier-partner Rondo-Pak helps provide safer clinical trials for F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG.

October 20, 2015

Sustainability

Eggs nestle in new ryegrass and paper carton

A new egg carton from U.K.’s Waitrose made from 50% ryegrass and 50% recycled paper is expected to save approximately 85 tons per year of wood/recycled paper.

October 20, 2015

Sustainable Packaging

Designing sustainability into OTC pharma packaging

Kara Errickson, Industrial Designer, discusses package design issues for Hyland’s 4 Kids Bumps ’n Bruises® with Arnica, an ointment stick to provide natural relief of pain, swelling, bruising, and soreness for children.

October 14, 2015

Sustainability

Arrowhead bottles to contain up to 50% rPET by 2016

Nestlé Water’s Arrowhead brand announces it will increase its use of rPET by 38% in its spring water bottles, eliminating 20,000 tons of CO2 from production annually.

October 14, 2015

Plastics/resins

Bronco Wine field-tests 750-mL PET bottle

Bronco Wine tests a 750-mL PET bottle for its Green Fin and Hacienda brands, making the switch from glass to PET for greater consumer convenience and sustainability advantages.

October 6, 2015

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Lightweighting can be a heavy lift

Let there be light, provided that the right considerations are brought to bear.

October 5, 2015