All Sustainability articles – Page 151
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ArticlePaper bottles: your questions answered
Last month, Carlsberg announced that its paper-based bottle would soon be available for consumer trials across Europe. When we reported on this announcement, a number of our readers raised some thought-provoking questions and talking points on this topic. We recently spoke with Simon Boas Hoffmeyer, director of sustainability at the Carlsberg Group, and put these reader questions to him.
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ArticleBillerudKorsnäs launches sack paper with no plastic film
Performance White Barrier is a new sack paper from BillerudKorsnäs, where a coating replaces the plastic film barrier commonly found in paper sacks.
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ArticleHow Packaging Europe reassessed its own packaging
Following careful consideration, Packaging Europe will now be delivered in a compostable film wrap. Here we explain the process through which we applied questions about sustainable material specifications to our own physical product.
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ArticleDRS study: shoppers stop treating plastic bottles as waste in seven weeks
New research from Suntory Beverage & Food, the maker of Lucozade and Ribena, suggests it takes just seven weeks for the vast majority (88%) of shoppers to rethink their relationship with plastic bottles and to appreciate their value after living with deposit return schemes.
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ArticleNew 'PET-like plastic' made directly from waste biomass
Scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have developed a new PET-like plastic that is made from the non-edible parts of plants.
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ArticleGabriel-Chemie and partners unveil lightweight monomaterial tubes
Gabriel-Chemie Group has worked with its partners to develop a series of lightweight monomaterial tubes that it says possess “perfect recycling performance”.
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ArticleWimbledon and Evian partner on first-ever digital recycling reward scheme
At this year’s Wimbledon tennis tournament Evian is partnering with Reward4Waste on a project that incentivises recycling via a novel consumer reward scheme.
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ArticleTrinseo and GMP to establish European polystyrene recycling plant
Trinseo and GMP Group have announced their plans to build a plant that will produce recycled food-contact polystyrene material.
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From our sponsorsMondi targets plastic reduction with mono-material pouch re-design for hair care brand
Mondi has worked with Kao’s hair cosmetic brand Goldwell on a lightweight, mono-material stand-up pouch that reportedly offers an 80% reduction in plastic compared to the previous rigid packaging solution.
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ArticleIndia to introduce ban on some single-use plastics from July 2022
India’s Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has announced that from the 1st of July 2022, the country will ban the manufacture, import, stocking, distribution, sale, and use of select single-use plastics, including cutlery, straws, carrier bags, and trays, that it claims have “low utility and high littering potential”.
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ArticleConnect with industry-leading experts at our Sustainable Packaging Summit
With Packaging Europe’s Sustainable Packaging Summit just weeks away, here’s a rundown on the top-level experts who’ll be attending – and how you can meet them.
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ArticleConstantia Flexibles launches mono-material laminate for high chemical resistance applications
Constantia Flexibles has launched what it claims is a recycle-ready, mono-material PP laminate with high chemical resistance for pharmaceutical applications.
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ArticleWhere are the barriers and opportunities for scaling reuse systems?
Hubbub has released a report that draws on interviews with key industry players and a poll of consumers to understand attitudes toward reusable packaging and pathways to scaling reuse solutions. Convenience and cost, education and research, and technology and design are key considerations that the organisation says must be accounted for when it comes to establishing reusable packaging systems at scale.
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ArticleValser introduces label-free beverage bottles
Valser, a Coca-Cola brand, has launched beverage bottles without labels, which feature the product information and logo embossed into the bottle with the barcode printed on the top of the lid.
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ArticleBall Corporation unveils lightweight aerosol can aimed at carbon footprint reduction
Ball Corporation has unveiled a new aluminium aerosol can made with its lightweight ReAl alloy while incorporating 50% recycled content and aluminium smelted using renewable energy sources in a bid to half the pack’s carbon footprint.
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PodcastSustainability Perspectives: Zooming in on flexibles
Constantia Flexibles’ Daniel Winkler discusses sustainability challenges and solutions as well as recent trends and developments in the flexible packaging market with Elisabeth Skoda.
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ArticleIntegrated cap solution for small dose tubes launched by Emballator
Emballator Tectubes has introduced an integrated Twist off Recap solution for its mono-material Small Doses range that reportedly reduces material content by 10%.
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ArticleHow can we harness the potential of the informal waste economy?
Plastics For Change aims to engage informal waste collectors in the Global South with traceability solutions to facilitate higher collection rates and ethical working conditions. Andrew Almack, CEO and founder of Plastics For Change, discusses both the global and local significance of the informal waste economy and its potential to generate social and environmental change.
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ArticleNeste secures European rights to Alterra Energy’s chemical recycling technology
Neste has purchased the European rights to Alterra Energy’s thermochemical liquefaction technology, a chemical recycling solution for hard-to-recycle plastics that the companies are looking to scale at Neste’s refineries in Finland and the Netherlands.
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From our sponsorsHow can we make extended producer responsibility a reality?
Ignacio Gavilan, Sustainability Director at The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) and Sander Defruyt, Lead of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Plastics Initiative, outline the ongoing work of their respective organisations on extended producer responsibility schemes, and explain the key role these schemes play in a circular economy for packaging.