Bio-based

Compost tea goes greener with fitment pouches

Vermicrop Organics realizes cost and time savings by switching from rigid plastic bottles to gorgeously printed pouches for its compost tea product, Vermi T Solution.

October 25, 2012

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Containers

Skinnyminis cocktails are convenient in 200-mL PET

Beam’s popular Skinnygirl Margarita ready-to-serve cocktail is launched in a single-serve PET barrier bottle, opening the brand up to new venues.

October 25, 2012

Flexibles

Fully compostable coffee pack launched

Canadian coffee roaster Pistol & Barnes offers its Fair Trade, organic Farmer First coffee brand in a compostable pack made of paper laminated to a wood pulp-based film.

October 23, 2012

Blisters/clamshells/skin packaging

Sonoco

Founded in 1899, Sonoco is a global provider of consumer packaging, industrial products and services, protective packaging, retail merchandising displays, medical and pharmaceutical packaging and packaging supply chain services.

Sonoco Products Company

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Hartsville, SC 29550-3350

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October 18, 2012

Sustainability

Mushrooms launch in water-resistant, compostable pack

Champ’s Mushrooms becomes one of the first produce companies to use new, more water-resistant packaging made from renewable compostable palm pulp-based material.

October 18, 2012

Secondary Packaging

Paktech's sustainability equals profitability... just ask Walmart

How can you reduce eliminate corrugate and petroleum use, 78% of your greenhouse gas emissions and 90% of your energy use? Watch this video to get the answer from Paktech, “the handle people” ... and so much more. Need convincing? Just pause this short video at 1:20 and study the Walmart eco-scoring chart at 1:20. And again at 2:20 to see how to save hundreds of dollars per truckload.

October 18, 2012

Sustainability

Slim can suits Southwest Wines

Its renamed Soleil Mimosa wine is launched in an on-the-go aluminum can that provides sustainability, portability, and graphics punch.

October 17, 2012

Sustainable Packaging

New soap bottles partially sourced from ocean plastic

Eco-conscious household/personal care products maker Method offers limited-edition soap in bottle made from ocean-recovered and PCR HDPE plastic.

October 16, 2012

Sustainable Packaging

Sustainability's role in meeting challenges of the future

FMI/GMA Sustainability Summit offers attendees glimpse at future trends and discusses how sustainability and supply chain collaboration can be used to address these changes.

October 15, 2012

Sustainability

Custom case saves waste for winery

A specially designed 12-count corrugated case for small-volume winery Terrien provides a more sustainable packaging solution through a sophisticated, sturdy structure.

October 12, 2012

Recycling

Safeway has occasion-based wine category all wrapped up

A new line of wines targeted at specific buying occasions stand out on Safeway’s store shelves, with their ‘exquisitely designed’ full-body paper wraps.

October 10, 2012

Sustainable Packaging

FTC 'Green Guide' revisions finalized

The final revised Green Guides largely reflect the revisions the FTC posed in 2010, with some changes.

October 9, 2012