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Packaging expectations for 2014

We’re looking ahead to what promises to be a good year for packaging.

February 5, 2014

Recycling: Page 245

Sustainable Packaging

Working paper supports Extended Producer Responsibility

Results from a cost-benefit analysis of the American system for market-based recycling show an uptake in recycling at comparable costs to current systems.

February 4, 2014

Sustainable Packaging

New plastics-to-oil alliance formed

New group within the American Chemistry Council’s Plastics Division to support technologies that allow for the repurposing of non-recyclable plastics.

February 4, 2014

Sustainability

Kiehl's collects 1.3 million containers for upcycling

Kiehl’s stores send consumer waste from its ‘Recycle & Be Rewarded’ program to recycler/upcycler, collecting up to 1.3 million bottles since 2009.

February 4, 2014

Sustainability

Coca-Cola Amatil wins awards for PET bottle

Coca Cola Amatil has won the 2013 Australian Packaging Design Award as well as a 2013-2014 Worldstar award from the World Packaging Organization with a lightweighted PET bottle.

February 3, 2014

Sustainability

PaperBoy paper wine bottle a U.S. first

Winemaker Truett-Hurst launches a fully recyclable, molded-pulp wine bottle to appeal to eco-conscious, on-the-go wine lovers, selling a quarter-million bottles in the first 60 days.

January 30, 2014

Material handling

Live from Cool Chain Europe: Champagne toast for Cool Chain Excellence Award winners

Awards recognize outstanding contributions in temperature control logistics and Quality Assurance in the pharmaceutical cold-chain industry.

January 29, 2014

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Off The Shelf: Eco-friendly paper wine bottle is a U.S. first

California winery Truett-Hurst introduces a wine bottle made from a molded-pulp outer shell, with an inner film liner. The PaperBoy bottle is fully recyclable and has been designed to appeal to eco-friendly consumers looking for a lightweight, portable option to glass wine bottles.

January 29, 2014

Closures

Could 'flow restrictors' help reduce medication overdoses?

Senator Charles Schumer calls for safer packaging for children’s medicine bottles in effort to help prevent emergency room visits.

January 22, 2014

Cartons and boxes

Study: Shipping strawberries in corrugated saves $6.6 million

A new study from the Corrugated Packaging Alliance compares the costs for shipping strawberries in corrugated containers versus the use of RPCs.

January 20, 2014

Sustainable Packaging

How do compostable plastics affect the recycling stream?

A new meta-study from European Bioplastics looks at the impact of compostable plastics mixed with conventional plastics in post-consumer recycling streams.

January 20, 2014

Sustainable Packaging

Walmart's eco-friendly cleaners

The new Great Value Naturals line of all-natural household cleaners from Walmart uses recycled-content bottles and 100%-plastic trigger sprayers that can be easily recycled.

January 19, 2014

Sustainable Packaging

Innovative package design dazzles for LIQS rollout

Recyclable polystyrene shot glass with colorful graphic bursts aims to attract sophisticated millennial consumers.

January 17, 2014