All Sustainability articles – Page 140
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ArticleNew project from Fraunhofer hopes to pave the way for new plastics recycling methods
Seven Fraunhofer Institutes are pooling their expertise in the lighthouse project "Waste4Future", which aims to increase energy and resource efficiency in the use of plastics.
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ArticleAvery Dennison sets ambition to be net-zero on carbon emissions by 2050
Avery Dennison today announced its ambition to be net-zero on greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This commitment comes as the company reveals new sustainability targets for 2030.
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ArticleThe growing pains of sustainability in packaged foods
In this article, Michael Dann, global product line Leader for HFFS solutions at BW Flexible Systems, provides a refresher on how the food market has historically met consumer demand.
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ArticleA closer look at Ritter Sport’s “Mini Mix” paper pouch packaging
Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG recently switched its Ritter Sport “Mini Mix” packaging from trays wrapped in plastic film to a stand-up pouch made of paper.
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ArticleBorealis to help scale innovative heat recovery technology
Borealis is set to help Qpinch commercially scale its innovative heat recovery technology, in a bid to reduce CO2 emissions and increase production efficiency.
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ArticleResearch identifies barrier tech which ‘improves paper packaging recyclability’
New research conducted by Aquapak Polymers suggests that ‘recycle ready’ adhesives and fully soluble barriers can replace plastics in fibre-based packaging, making it fully recyclable in high volume recycling mills.
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ArticleSIG announces launch of tethered caps for carton packs three years ahead of EU deadline
SIG announced today that tethered caps will be launched for its beverage cartons in Europe in the second half of 2021, ahead of the July 2024 deadline set by EU regulations.
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ArticleCo-op bans bags-for-life over single-use fears
British retailer Co-op is set to remove plastic “bags for life” from all its 2,600 stores, warning that the low-cost, reusable bag has simply become a new single-use carrier.
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ArticleNew DS Smith initiative seeks to help brands assess circularity of their packs
DS Smith has today launched its Circular Design Metrics – a new set of guidelines that allow customers to rate the circularity of their packaging.
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ArticleIntroducing ‘From Competition to Collaboration’ live series
How – and why – should the industry be thinking in terms of collaboration, not competition, when it comes to meeting sustainability goals?
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ArticleSustainable cartons for non-food products
In a new Innovation Spotlight, Elopak announces that it is extending the sustainability advantages of its Pure-Pak® cartons to the non-food market by reintroducing the D-PAKTM carton for household products.
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ArticleClosing the recycling loop: KHS packers now also process shrink film made of 100% recyclate
In this edition of our Innovation Spotlight, manufacturer of filling and packaging systems KHS Group makes an announcement regarding its shrink packers, which can now process film made entirely of recyclate.
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ArticleSharpak presents new strawberry punnet with no bubble pad
Sharpak Aylesham has announced the launch of SP Airlite, a range of recyclable strawberry punnets with a protected design that mitigates the need for bubble pads, which the company claims is a UK industry first.
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ArticlePlastic packaging and the circular economy
What steps do major plastics producers take to address the circularity challenges of the material? Elisabeth Skoda catches up with Berry’s CEO Tom Salmon to get his take on plastic as a packaging material and its role in a circular economy.
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ArticleAmcor’s recyclable blister packaging begins trial phase
Amcor is today announcing customer trials for the world’s first recyclable, polyethylene-based thermoform blister packaging.
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ArticleNivea announces sustainability upgrade to face care packaging
From June onwards, the packs for Nivea’s Naturally Good face care product range will be made from SABIC’s “certified renewable” polypropylene.
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PodcastSustainability Perspectives - discussing polystyrene and circularity with TRINSEO
Tim Sykes speaks with TRINSEO’s Julien Renvoise about the potential of polystyrene as an infinitely recyclable plastic – and the challenges we face in building a fully circular economy.
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ArticleNaturally done: A deep dive into biobased packaging innovations for 2021
The Global Packaging Trends Compendium 2021 by ThePackHub details more than 550 packaging innovations and is grouped into nine trend sections. The first to be tackled in the report is ‘Naturally Done’.
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ArticleResilux to double bottle-to-bottle recycling capacity using Erema technology
Resilux, a leading PET bottle and preform producer, has announced a new technology investment that it says will result in it doubling its bottle-to-bottle PET recycling capacity.
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ArticleExtended producer responsibility Part 2: How far have we come?
In the second of our series on extended producer responsibility, Joachim Quoden tells us how he has watched the concept evolve since the early 1990s.