Sustainability

PLA-bottled beverages couple with compact, on-site compost unit

Naturally Iowa offers foodservice and institutional customers a composting solution for its PLA beverage bottles.

February 24, 2009

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Sustainable Packaging

Packaging is the answer to world hunger

Read this position paper prepared jointly by the World Packaging Organisation and the International Packaging Press Organization.

February 24, 2009

Closures

Eco-spirits' use industry-first 100% PCR PET content

360 Vodka paves the way for sustainable liquor packaging, with a 100% PCR PET bottle.

February 23, 2009

Recycling

Rock, paper, packaging?

February 12, 2009

Recycling

Package is chair is package is chair. . .

February 12, 2009

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February 8, 2009

Sustainability

Lance invests in its future

As an aging fleet of bagging systems is replaced over a three-year period, payback comes through enhanced performance of both combination scales and vf/f/s systems.

February 1, 2009

Coding, Printing & Labeling

RFID smart boxes

The idea of an RFID-enabled “smart box” has been tested by several vendors of corrugated materials, including Domino Integrated Solutions Group (DISG, www.domino-isg.com) with its award-winning HIDE-Pack™ smart box.

February 1, 2009

Closures

Miller Lite launches in aluminum pint bottles

Miller Brewing Co., Milwaukee, WI, is serving up Miller Lite Beer in 16-oz Alumi-Tek® aluminum pint bottles supplied by Ball Corp. (www.ball.com).

February 1, 2009

Reusable/Returnable

Working smarter

Industry professionals respond to the question, 'Can you share ways in which your packaging equipment or personnel are working smarter?'

February 1, 2009

Sustainability

Feedback on oxo-biodegradables

Research leading up to last month’s Lead Off column included a call to the Biodegradable Products Institute, whose executive director comments here.

February 1, 2009

Sustainability

Procter & Gamble sustainability tips, insights

Tony Burns, associate director, sustainability, for P&G’s Global Package and Device Development (GPDD) group, says the company has learned several important lessons during its corporate sustainability journey.

February 1, 2009

Sustainable Packaging

P&G's report focuses on energy, waste, and emissions reductions

Procter & Gamble Company’s 2008 Sustainability Report—the 10th annual version of its kind—entitled “Designed to Innovate…Sustainably,” outlines P&G’s approach to sustainable development.

February 1, 2009