All Sustainability articles – Page 141
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ArticleAsda eyes material reductions with refreshed packs for chicken range
In line with its ongoing commitment to ‘use less and recycle more’, UK-based retailer Asda is launching new packaging across its entire chicken range, a move that it projects will save 450 tonnes of plastic a year.
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ArticleCoca-Cola, Unilever and Colgate-Palmolive join AB InBev’s sustainability accelerator
Today, The Coca-Cola Company, Colgate-Palmolive Company and Unilever have joined the Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) 100+ Accelerator, an initiative that aims to fund and pilot sustainable innovation in supply chains.
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ArticleHow can the packaging industry drive down carbon emissions?
Our latest Sustainable Packaging Summit panel discussion, looking into how the industry is tackling one of the biggest issues of our times, is now available to watch on demand.
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ArticleDow to help scale ‘game-changing’ advanced recycling solution
Dow and Mura Technology today announced a partnership to scale up the latter’s advanced plastic recycling solution.
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ArticleDigimind interview: AI and sustainable packaging design
Digimind is a DeepTech startup that is building the ‘first AI platform focused on packaging’ that strives to help brand owners design and manufacture safe, sustainable and cost-effective plastic packaging.
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ArticleUnilever’s Hellmann’s brand shifts to 100% rPET bottles
Hellmann’s, one of Unilever’s condiments brands, is set to transition its ‘squeezy’ range in the UK to bottles made from 100% post-consumer recycled PET.
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ArticleDecarbonizing the paper industry
There are many challenges facing the EU paper industry as it works to meet its emission-reduction obligations. Adrian Hiel explores some of the potential routes to achieving this.
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ArticleFirst commercial launch for SIG’s Paper U-straw for aseptic cartons
SIG’s paper u-bend straw made its commercial debut this month, in partnership with CAPSA Food’s ‘Central Lechera Asturiana’ – a leading Spanish milk brand.
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ArticleINEOS Styrolution, Recycling Technologies and Trinseo progress plans for first polystyrene recycling plants in Europe
INEOS Styrolution, Recycling Technologies and Trinseo today claim to have reached a significant milestone in their plans to build commercial polystyrene (PS) recycling plants in Europe.
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ArticleJohnnie Walker makes new sustainable packaging pledges
Johnnie Walker – the world’s best-selling Scotch – is launching The Next Steps initiative, a move it is describing as its “biggest-ever sustainability push.”
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ArticleUnpacking the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Universal Circular Economy Policy Goals
We spoke with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to find out what its newly-released circular economy policy goals mean for the packaging industry.
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ArticleMondi expands carbon neutral paper portfolio
Mondi has extended its portfolio of CO2 neutral papers to cover almost all of its premium paper brands.
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ArticleAIMPLAS to develop guacamole packaging using avocado itself
A new project from AIMPLAS, funded by the Valencian Innovation Agency, hopes to develop packaging for guacamole made from avocado itself that can extend shelf-life by 15%.
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ArticleNavigating flexible packaging’s many paths to a circular economy
Steve Gillman speaks to Dana Mosora, workstream lead at the Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) project, about why the sector is now getting behind a strategy that backs both chemical and mechanical recycling.
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ArticleWebinar: A deep dive into sustainable coffee packaging
In this webinar with ROVEMA, we will look at some of the specific challenges when it comes to packaging coffee in an efficient, sustainable way and about the company’s lifecycle approach for existing machines and packaging lines as a turnkey solution
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ArticleAldi trials packaging-free products
Retailer Aldi today announced that it has launched a trial that will measure consumer response to packaging-free products.
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ArticleLeading retailers join Mainetti’s recycling initiative for clear polythene
A number of retailers including Superdry, Morrisons and Very, have joined Mainetti’s closed-loop recycling initiative, Polyloop.
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PodcastPodcast: A deep dive into plastic packaging R&D with AIMPLAS
Innovation in plastic packaging has made great leaps forward in recent years. Elisabeth Skoda gains insights into key developments and challenges from two packaging experts at AIMPLAS.
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ArticleDriving packaging sustainability from the start
Fabien Thibault, global manager, product and packaging sustainability at Merck, gives us an overview of his company's ambitions and actions in the realm of packaging sustainability.
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ArticleExtended producer responsibility Part 1: What is it all about?
Over the coming months, in collaboration with CEFLEX, we will be publishing a series of interviews and articles on the sometimes-thorny subject of extended producer responsibility (EPR).