All Sustainability articles – Page 201
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ArticleWebinar: Multi-layer flexible packaging
How to combine performance, food safety and sustainability?
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ArticleCollaboration between DS Smith and Laithwaite’s Wine results in closed-loop recycling system
DS Smith has teamed up with the UK’s largest online wine merchant, Laithwaite’s Wine, to create a closed-loop recycling system across the two companies’ supply chains.
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ArticleClosing the loop – the future of packaging?
Wouter Van Tol, DS Smith's recently-announced head of government, community affairs and sustainability, explains why now is the perfect time for the industry to adopt closed-loop models.
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ArticleSiegwerk’s proprietary deinking and delamination primer technology helps to yield clean recyclates
In this Innovation Spotlight, Siegwerk explains to us why its technology is a key lever to integrate plastic packaging materials further towards a circular economy.
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ArticleTesco introduces recycled food-grade soft plastic packaging made from materials returned by customers
This week, Tesco is introducing new plastic packaging made by a pioneering process of recycling soft, flexible plastic packaging.
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ArticleHolyGrail 2.0: ground-breaking recycling project enters its next stage with cross-industry backing
Over 85 companies and organisations from the complete packaging value chain have joined forces with the goal to assess whether a pioneering digital technology can enable better sorting and higher-quality recycling rates for packaging in the EU.
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ArticleBudweiser Budvar adopts TopClip cardboard multipack topper
Budweiser Budvar UK is trialing Smurfit Kappa's TopClip, a cardboard beer can packaging solution, as the Czech beer brand works to reduce plastic waste.
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ArticleClose the Glass Loop – An inside look
How will Close the Glass Loop, the new pan-European action platform, achieve its aim of increasing European glass recycling rates to 90%, and why is this so important now?
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ArticleGreiner Packaging reports test success with yogurt cups made from 100% recycled PS
Greiner Packaging's K3® yogurt cup is made from a cardboard-plastic combination that can be printed on. This particular cup is now the focus of a project carried out by Greiner Packaging in Switzerland to highlight the recyclability of polystyrene.
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ArticleCoca-Cola transitions to 100% rPET bottles in the Netherlands and Norway
Coca-Cola has taken another step on its journey to eliminating new virgin oil-based plastic by announcing that its brands in the Netherlands and Norway will transition to plastic bottles made from 100% recycled PET (rPET).
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ArticleCircularise raises €1.5 million to trace plastic supply chains
Circularise, a blockchain solution for tracing materials and sharing data, has raised €1.5 million from the EU Commission’s H2020’s SME Instrument Phase 2, to fuel the continued growth of the collaborative project for circularity in plastics.
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ArticleNestlé reveals recyclable paper wrappers for Maggi bouillon cubes
Maggi has broken new ground by becoming the first major brand to use recyclable paper packaging to wrap individual bouillon cubes for its organic range in France.
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ArticlePujolasos launches wooden cap with recyclable plastic inner
With the aim of meeting demand from the perfumery and cosmetics industries for more environmentally friendly caps, Pujolasos has designed a glue-free wood cap with a disposable plastic inner that can be recycled post-use.
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ArticleFinalist interviews: Frugalpac's coffee cup made from 96% recycled paperboard
In the first of our interviews with the Sustainability Awards 2020 finalists, we talk with Frugalpac, the creator of a coffee cup made from 96% recycled paperboard that has a carbon footprint up to 60% lower than conventional alternatives.
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ArticleSyntegon wins German Packaging Award for innovative form, fill and seal system
The German Packaging Institute has honoured Syntegon Technology with a German Packaging Award for its compact TPU1000 form, fill and seal system.
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ArticleThe Sustainable Packaging Summit 2020 goes digital
Packaging Europe's Sustainable Packaging Summit 2020 will now be taking place as a season of world-class digital events.
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ArticleWebinar: How to achieve recyclability in transparent food contact plastic packaging
In this webinar you will learn about SP GROUP’s RPET trays with up to 100% recycled content for food contact applications, monomaterial structures for recyclable flexible packaging as well as compostable materials.
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ArticleThe Wider View: Sustainable power of flexibles
Packaging Europe finds out about the challenges and opportunities faced when moving from rigid packaging materials such as cans and jars to flexible packaging materials and looks opportunities and limitations of paper packaging.
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ArticleIs refillable and reusable growth set to continue its skyward trend?
In this article, Paul Jenkins, managing director of ThePackhub, takes a look at some of the most exciting products to have come out of the refillable and reusable packaging sectors in the last 12 months.
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ArticleOn Second Thoughts... We cannot recycle our way out of plastic pollution
Yoni Shiran, Programme Director at SYSTEMIQ, tells us why recycling is not the single answer to the plastic pollution dilemma.