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ArticleVideo: Sustainable Packaging Summit 2019 - part 5
What's the most sustainable path to a circular economy? Should we prioritise recycling or reuse? In the fifth and final film from the Sustainable Packaging Summit 2019 Tim Sykes leads a panel discussion featuring PepsiCo, P&G, CEFLEX and TerraCycle
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ArticleVideo: Sustainable Packaging Summit 2019 - part 4
In the penultimate film shot at the Sustainable Packaging Summit 2019 TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky talks about eliminating the idea of waste and the new Loop e-commerce platform, based around on reusable packaging.
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ArticleOn Second Thoughts... Waste and responsibility: a rite of passage for global leadership
Dana Mosora is a passionate circular economy advocate, currently working as a workstream consultant for CEFLEX, and also a social entrepreneur who has co-founded the ASASE.
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ArticleWaste less, make more
According to National Geographic, only around nine per cent of all the plastic ever made is likely to be recycled.
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ArticleThe Rapid Interview: Safe Load Testing Technologies
Safe Load Testing Technologies' CEO Alberto Tellechea is up next to answer our Rapid Interview questions.
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ArticleVideo: Sustainable Packaging Summit 2019 - part 3
In the third of five films from the Sustainable Packaging Summit 2019, Chris Daly discusses PepsiCo's challenges around integrating its packaging into a circular economy and its multi-faceted strategy to realise it
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ArticleMaking the case for plastics packaging
It has been a challenging period for the plastics packaging industry with difficult market conditions and the ongoing 'war on plastics' having an effect.
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ArticlePlastics – the insider perspective
At the start of K 2019, Packaging Europe asks some major players in the plastics packaging industry a few pertinent questions about the big issues the industry faces today and finds out about their sustainability drive and innovations.
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ArticleOn Second Thoughts... Practical recyclability is the only version of recyclability
In this column, Tom Szaky looks below the surface of recyclability claims and highlights the gap between technical recyclability and practical recyclability.
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ArticleCombining Japanese and British/European style
Adrian Whitefoord, founder and partner at Pemberton & Whitfoord, explores how British/European retail style was introduced to Japan using the medium of packaging.
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Video: "Paper where possible, plastic when useful"
With so many variables and complexities, how do you identify the most sustainable packaging solution? Graeme Smith discusses Mondi's customer-centric approach.
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ArticleBeyond the box – the future of packaging
Boxes that vanish, electrics that turn cases into power sources for iPads and shape changing materials are just some of the ways packaging is predicted to reinvent itself as soon as the next decade.
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ArticlePackaging for pets
The pet food market has mirrored trends across CPG over recent years, with new opportunities for packaging to add value. Bernard Meunier of Nestlé Purina shared his story of sustainability, premiumisation and digitisation with (cat owner) Tim Sykes
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ArticleAre global food packaging brands committed to ditching single-use plastic?
As the world’s relationship with plastic is being radically redefined, academics at the University of Surrey investigate bold new food packaging pledges made by some of the world’s most prominent brands.
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ArticleVideo: Sustainable Packaging Summit 2019 - part 1
In the first part of the Sustainable Packaging Summit 2019, Gian De Belder introduces P&G's Ambition 2030 and the 'HolyGrail' project, investigating the potential of digital watermarking to revolutionise plastic packaging sorting and recycling
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ArticleA game-changer for digital print?
As the digitally printed packaging market hesitates to go fully mainstream, a potentially disruptive option for market entry has been quietly establishing itself. Tim Sykes investigates Memjet's low cost / high quality proposition
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ArticleIndustrial Scale Sustainability
Trade in bulk and industrial products tends to be invisible and intangible to wider society, and this perhaps explains the lack of media attention to its environmental impacts relative to those of consumer packaged goods.
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ArticlePackaging as a ‘lighthouse’
Elisabeth Skoda caught up with Kim Cheng, managing director at the German Packaging Institute (dvi) and talked about the ongoing packaging sustainability debate from a German perspective.
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ArticleA smart way to reduce food waste
According to research by the SAVE FOOD initiative, around one third of food produced for human consumption every year worldwide - approximately 1.3 billion tonnes - is wasted.
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ArticleMoving from intention to action by setting clear sustainable packaging goals
Tristanne Davis, Senior Manager, Sustainable Packaging Coalition, looks at how setting corporate sustainability goals can help demonstrate your company's commitment to addressing the climate crisis.