Sustainability

P&G Debuts Paper Deodorant Tube

Procter & Gamble Beauty has announced that beginning this May at 500 Walmart stores in the U.S., both Old Spice and Secret brand deodorants will be introduced in all-paper, plastic-free, tube packaging.

April 20, 2020

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Plastics/resins

Dow Develops Simplified Face Shield Design

Dow

Dow has developed a simplified face shield design and is sharing its design through an open-source file to help accelerate production rates of this equipment.

April 17, 2020

Sustainability

O-I 3D Prints Face Shield Frames

Owens-Illinois, Inc.

O-I Glass, Inc. is using its 3D printing capabilities to make face shield frames for members of the Northwest Ohio medical community.

April 14, 2020

Package design

WPO: Packaging During a Pandemic

WPO's Pienaar shares his views on the role of packaging in a pandemic

April 14, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Reusable Egg Carton in Pilot

Humane egg brand Pete and Gerry’s Organics offers durable PP egg cartons that consumers can fill with loose eggs in a pilot for a reusable packaging scheme.

April 4, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

How Safe is Reusable Packaging During COVID-19?

Last year, Loop launched its revolutionary shopping platform anchored by reusable packaging. Here, Tom Szaky, founder and CEO of TerraCycle and the driving force behind Loop, provides an update on the platform and how it’s faring in light of COVID-19.

April 3, 2020

Sustainability

Call for Applications: 2020 Excellence in Reusable Packaging Award

The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA)

The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) announced the opening of the application period for the 9th annual Excellence in Reusable Packaging Award.

March 17, 2020

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Distilleries Refit to Fill Hand-Sanitizer Gap

During World War II, Ford made tanks instead of cars and Maytag made plane parts instead of washing machines. With hand sanitizer being the small-arms munitions of today’s pandemic crisis, cosmetics and distilleries are joining the war effort.

March 27, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Fighting Back Against Anti-Plastics Legislation

At the CPA Annual Meeting, FPA President Alison Keane shares how the organization is working to help shape legislation around plastic packaging, rather than just react to it.

March 26, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Opinion: COVID-19 Swings “Reusable” from Good to Bad

March 25, 2020

Plastics/resins

Premium, Single-Origin Instant Coffee is Totally Tubular

Boston area-based specialty coffee roaster introduces an instant coffee product produced using a new freeze-drying process and packaged in a PP tube that provides a nine-month shelf life.

March 24, 2020

Plastics/resins

Plastics Association Calls for Industry-Wide Shelter in Place Exclusion

Plastics Industry Association

The Plastics Industry Association President and CEO Tony Radoszewski issued a statement today requesting all local, state, and federal governments to include plastic resin and plastic product manufacturers as “essential” in order to stay open.

March 23, 2020

Sustainable Packaging

Musings on Sustainability

Read what Jim Chrzan, VP of Content & Brand Strategy at PMMI Media Group, and Sean Riley, PMMI’s Senior Director of Media & Industry Communications, had to say about the state of sustainability during a lively conversation at the show earlier this month.

March 23, 2020