All Beverages articles – Page 9
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Bacardi announces intent to remove plastic pourers from its rum bottles
Bacardi is set to remove non-refillable fitments from its bottles in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Spain and Portugal in an attempt to save around 140 tons of single-use plastic every year.
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Finalist Interview: Stirz International Packaging Solutions – plant-based dissolving beverage pouches
Next in our series of Sustainability Awards finalist interviews, we find out more about SIPZ, an innovation that is set to disrupt the nutrition and performance powder space.
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Liquibox unveils new automatic and semi-automatic bag-in-box fillers for liquid products
Liquibox has announced its new automatic and semi-automatic bag-in-box filling equipment, with the new designs capable of filling liquid food, beverages, and non-food products such as cleaning fluids.
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Sainsbury’s to implement evian and re-universe’s digital reward scheme for recycling beverage packaging
In a collaboration with Sainsbury’s, evian is set to launch its ‘Return4Reward’ digital reward scheme in partnership with re-universe, hoping to encourage customers at Sainsbury’s to recycle their empty drink containers.
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Jägermeister launches campaign for new intelligent packaging – The Secret is Ice Cold
A new promotional campaign from Jägermeister called The Secret is Ice Cold is centred around active and intelligent packaging. It encourages consumers to place Jägermeister bottles in the freezer to reveal a hidden code for a chance to win special prizes.
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Sainsbury’s transitions to ‘home-recyclable’ aluminium packaging across its own-brand coffee pod range
Sainsbury’s has announced that its entire own-brand coffee pod range will now be packaged in aluminium, hoping to facilitate home recycling and spare ten million pieces of plastic from landfill every year.
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Winners of Hubbub and Starbucks’ Bring it Back fund to pilot six new packaging reuse schemes
The winners of environmental charity Hubbub and Starbucks’ Bring It Back fund have been announced today, with the prize money funding six new systems and solutions for sustainable packaging in the food and beverage industries.
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Fiji Water redesigns two of its plastic bottles to contain ‘100% rPET’
Fiji Water has reportedly implemented ‘100% rPET’ into its 300mL and 500mL plastic bottles in the United States, taking a step towards the company’s aim for the adoption of sustainable plastics across its bottle portfolio by 2025. According to Fiji, replacing its current design with a recycled ...
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How the law protects your sustainable packaging innovation
Sustainable progress oftentimes compliments a brand’s marketing, but environmentally friendly packaging innovations can be copied by other companies without the appropriate legal protection in place. Reddie & Grose partner Gillian Taylor and associate Adam Kelvey tell us how patents, trademarks, and registered designs help the industry keep track of and protect unique ideas.
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ChoosePlanetA’s new cup replaces plastic drinks lid with ‘compostable’ top flap design
ChoosePlanetA has released a new cup claiming to be made entirely from home-compostable paper with an integrated top flap design – aiming to replace single-use cups and plastic lids
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DS Smith and Krones aim to replace plastic shrink wrap with fibre-based ECO Carrier
DS Smith has partnered with packaging automation specialist Krones to create ECO Carrier, a fibre-based alternative to shrink wrap to package PET multipack bottles.
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What is Carlsberg’s plan of action to achieve its sustainability goals?
Following the announcement of Carlsberg Group’s new sustainability pledges, we spoke to sustainability director Simon Boas Hoffmeyer to find out how the company plans to meet them, the roadblocks it may face, and its visions of a brighter future for packaging.
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Why does TOMRA claim Norway’s deposit return scheme is one of the best in the world?
Norwegian recycling company TOMRA has given an insight into Norway’s unique deposit return scheme (DRS), which it says is an efficient, transparent and responsive system that could provide a role model for other countries around the world.
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Huhtamaki and Stora Enso launch industrial scale recycling programme for paper cups in Europe
Huhtamaki and Stora Enso have collaborated to launch a new paper cup recycling initiative, The Cup Collective. The programme aims to recycle and capture the value of used paper cups on an industrial scale.
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What’s next for PepsiCo’s sustainability drive under its new Chief Sustainability Officer?
We spoke to Katharina Stenholm, PepsiCo’s new Chief Sustainability Officer and Senior Vice President, to check in on the company’s progress and her role within it.
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UNITED CAPS and Mimica partner on cap aiming to increase accessibility and reduce food waste
UNITED CAPS and Mimica have collaborated on a cap which is reportedly an accessible freshness indicator for all types of perishable products. The project aims to reduce food waste and increase consumer food safety.
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Mondi launches Hug&Hold, a new alternative to plastic shrink wrap
Mondi has created a recyclable paper packaging solution to wrap and transport PET beverage bottles, which it says can replace plastic shrink wrap.
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Renewed calls for priority access to rPET from the European beverage industry
In a statement released today, UNESDA says that high rPET costs could prevent SMEs from meeting legislative requirements on recycled content and calls on the European Commission to introduce a priority access mechanism or right of first refusal for the beverage industry in the upcoming revision of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive.
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Finalist interview: Facilitating the circular economy in Africa
In a bid to create a circular economy for its packaging, the Equatorial Coca-Cola Bottling Company is working with communities in Guinea and Morocco to improve collection and recycling systems. To learn more about this project, we spoke with the company.
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CUPEX launches reusable PP dome lid for portable drinks
Resealable lid manufacturer CUPEX is expanding its range with the release of COMFORT, its new reusable lid.