Sustainable Packaging

Kraft Heinz Explores Potential of Paper-Based Ketchup Bottle

The company aims to become the first brand to use Pulpex’s patented recyclable, paper-based bottle technology for a sauce product.

May 12, 2022

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Sustainable Packaging

Bill Nye the Science Guy and Coca-Cola Teach Recycling in Fun, Accessible Video Short

Coca-Cola and Bill Nye (the Science Guy) team up to create a stop-motion video that aims to demystify recycling. In a unique twist, the actual materials used to model Nye and the set in the stop-motion animation are recycled or recyclable.

May 10, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

AMERIPEN: ‘New Recycled Content Mandates Doomed To Fail’

An examination of legislation meant to boost demand for PCR reveals lawmakers are not considering the full implications of these requirements and the other industries that compete for demand.

May 9, 2022

Containers

Reducing Risk for Slack-fill Packaging Lawsuits: Part One

Here are some fundamentals regarding lawsuits alleging that the packaging contains slack-fill that misleads and deceives the consumer.

May 5, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable Packaging TODAY: Food and Beverage Trends

Tired of food and beverage packaging increasing your carbon footprint and eco-shame? Discover sustainable options available now, all explained by U.K. sustainable packaging expert Paul Jenkins of the PackHub and Packaging World’s Matt Reynolds.

May 4, 2022

Sustainability

Refillable Aluminum Bubble Container Goes Against the Norm

Bubble Tree launched with an aluminum bottle designed to reflect the brand’s goals of sustainability and environmental safety.

May 3, 2022

Workforce

Women Drive Innovations in Sustainable Packaging, Digital Printing

A recent issue of Packaging World magazine covers sustainable packaging innovations from Mars, Aveda, and Brita Water and new direct-to-shape digital can printing—all led by women.

April 29, 2022

Flexibles

Monomaterial Pouches from P&G’s Pantene Japan Refill Durable Aluminum Bottle

In another entry into the refillable packaging systems category, P&G’s Pantene Japan asks consumers to refill aluminum bottles with product packaged in a PE/PE flexible pouch.

April 28, 2022

Sustainable Packaging

Walmart to Connect Suppliers with Brands for Sustainable Packaging Innovation

Walmart’s new Circular Connector platform allows suppliers to submit their sustainable packaging innovations for review and potential online publication for brands to consider.

April 19, 2022

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Sustainably Minded E-Commerce at Your Front Door

U.K. sustainable packaging expert Paul Jenkins of the PackHub and Packaging World’s Matt Reynolds discuss real-world applications of e-commerce packaging focused on sustainability available today.

April 18, 2022

Flexible packaging

Live at PACK EXPO East: Flexible Packaging Machinery & Materials on the Brain

There was lots of interesting news on both the materials and machinery sides of the PACK EXPO East coin. We’ll look at a couple of pouchers and baggers and check out a commercialized monomaterial pouch for P&G’s Pantene Japan, done by Zacros.

April 15, 2022

Sustainability

Co-packer Deploys Packaging Innovations for Brita Premium Purified Water

B Water & Beverages works with Brita to design sustainable packaging for its first retail bottled water product that includes a sturdy, striking, refillable, recyclable aluminum bottle and a plastic-free paperboard carrier that is also fully recyclable.

April 13, 2022

Sustainability

Utz Group Celebrates its 75th Anniversary

Utz Group

Utz Group, a supplier of load and workpiece carriers made of recyclable plastic is celebrating its 75th anniversary.

April 13, 2022