All Article articles – Page 62
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Approaching the paper vs plastic dilemma
Approaching the paper vs plastic dilemma.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Renewables
Assessing the strategic opportunity for renewable packaging materials.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Development of sustainable food packaging concepts
Unpacking Ghent University’s latest research into modelling how a more sustainable packaging concept will influence the shelf life of the packaged product and as such the generated food waste.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Communicating your decarbonization efforts confidently in today’s world
Vivien McKewen explores how has the carbon conversation has changed in recent years, and the implications, featuring insights from packaging manufacturers, FMCG companies and the end consumer. Finally, she explains: how to be F.A.C.T.U.A.L in your communication.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: The role of LCAs in substantiating sustainability claims
Barbar Dunin explores the value that life cycle analysis (LCA) can provide in supporting sustainability claims, amid increasing regulatory and consumer pressure to avoid greenwashing.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: How sustainable packaging influences consumers
Sustainable packaging trends like recyclable materials, minimalist packaging, and reusable pack design help manufacturers reduce waste and, in many cases, enhance brand perception. However, thoughtful execution is needed to maintain purchase motivation and brand consistency.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: How to make e-commerce packaging sustainable
Sustainable Packaging Summit: How to make e-commerce packaging sustainable
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Regulatory contexts for reuse
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Regulatory contexts for reuse.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: The role of certification in advancing the use of recycled plastics
Chain of custody standards have used mass balance and book & claim systems to bring about change across a wide range of supply chains including renewable energy, responsible palm oil, sustainable forestry and more. In this session, we’ll learn how new standards are leveraging these proven methods to help advance the use of recycled plastics.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Turning multilayer plastic packaging waste into valuable resources - Outcomes of the CIMPA project
The CIMPA project proposes innovative solutions to develop the first value chain for the recycling of multilayer plastics from the food industry and agriculture. The latest developments of this EU-funded project will be presented, including the circularity-by-design guidelines, the innovative sorting techniques, mechanical and physical recycling as well as upgrading solutions.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: RecyClass: Certification for transparent and reliable claims of recycled plastics
Miereia Boada of Plastics Recyclers Europe updates us on certification.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Prevented Ocean Plastic: A transformative approach to pollution in developing countries
Marine plastic pollution is one of the most catastrophic manifestations of the environmental problems associated with packaging. Prevented Ocean Plastics is a new and, we believe, potentially transformative program that’s addressing the crisis in an innovative and scalable way. Raffi Schieir (Director of Prevented Ocean Plastic) and David Jakubovich (Director and Founder of JS&IC) tell us more about the initiative, its potential impacts, and their learnings to date.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Avoiding tunnel vision
What does it take to make packaging truly sustainable? And how do we avoid focusing on only one aspect of sustainability while managing complexity and possible trade-offs?
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Scaling returnable packaging
Mark Buckley, Strategic Design Manager at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation will provide a glimpse of their new study, launching in November, that envisions and models future scaled reuse systems. Their findings show that to scale reuse, we need to design and build systems with a new approach that is truly collaborative.
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Reviewing innovation in circular flexibles
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Reviewing innovation in circular flexibles
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ArticleSustainable Packaging Summit: Design-for-recycling vs recycling realities
Recycling expert Julian Thielen explores the disconnect between the capabilities of sorting plants built for multiwall packaging and the new generations of downgauged and mono substrates. Highlighting challenges for sorting and recycling that arise from packaging design, Julian points to possible future solutions.
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ArticleA look back at the year for corrugated and folding cartons
2023 has been a bumpy year for businesses and consumers alike, with rising inflation and interest rates, and a cost-of-living crisis. Against this backdrop, how have the European corrugated and folding cartons sectors faired? Neil Osment, Managing Director of paper packaging industry analysts NOA, takes a look.
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ArticleRedsmith Distillery unveils re-brand and move to 100% recycled glass packaging
Redsmith Distillery is launching gin in bottles that are made from 100% recycled glass and are reportedly 20% lighter than its previous bottles.
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ArticleBlue Ocean Closures receives investment from new co-owner Rottneros
Market pulp supplier Rottneros AB is investing in and becoming a co-owner of Blue Ocean Closures, with its sights now set on the further development of fibre-based packaging materials.
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ArticleLooking to the future: AI in production and logistics
Advances in AI (Artificial Intelligence) have made headlines and sparked both excitement and concern - but what are its roles and applications in the packaging industry? Frances Butler reports.