All Sustainability articles – Page 229
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ArticleMaking the Case for Plastics Packaging
Gary Buchalter, Innovations Director, RPC bpi protec, warns against demonising plastic packaging and writes about the potential benefits plastics packaging can have to cut food waste.
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ArticleTesco to Remove ‘Best Before’ Dates off Selected Fruit and Vegetable Lines
Tesco is to remove ‘Best Before’ consumption guidance dates off nearly 70 fruit and vegetable lines in a move to help reduce food waste and to prevent perfectly edible food from being thrown away.
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ArticleSmurfit Kappa MB12 Food-Safe Carton Now Available for Primary Packaging
The food-safe MB12 packaging helps customers to eliminate mineral oil migration with a sustainable solution.
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ArticleSouthgate® launches household-biocompostable air pillow film
Pacplan® AirWave™ household-biocompostable films perform just like their polythene cousins, but when their working life is over they retire to a compost heap where they quietly disappear.
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ArticleEuro Group encourages Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Return
This week, Euro Group introduced the launch of its brand-new, multi-use mailing bag concept, Retain/ Return.
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ArticleStora Enso accelerates growth in renewable materials by co-operating with the start-up Sulapac
Stora Enso and Sulapac have signed a joint development agreement to combat the global problem of plastic waste by accelerating the use of fully renewable, recyclable and biodegradable materials in packaging.
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ArticleFocus on Sustainability, Digitisation and Efficiency at Hispack 2018
The digitisation of the industry, sustainability, logistic efficiency and the improvement of the experience of use of packaging have been the main concepts that marked the recent edition of Hispack.
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ArticleNew UK Company Unveils Plans to Revolutionise End-of-life Plastic Recycling
A new company has announced its plans to build and operate new plastic recycling plants in the UK, using a breakthrough technology to chemically recycle end-of-life plastics into valuable oils and chemicals.
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ArticlePackaging Connections 18/05/2018
The latest from the packaging industry, including a talking skull that reacts to facial expressions, the world's only mass production DTS digital decoration technology and biocomposites as a replacement for plastics.
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ArticleA new generation of compostable coffee capsule
Flo has introduced Gea, an industrially compostable coffee capsule created in partnership with NatureWorks. Flo’s Gea capsule is the result of a two-year joint development process.
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ArticleDow and Pumpart take ground-breaking tube design to next level
Dow to further develop high efficiency tube in collaboration with PumpArt System, a French packaging designer.
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ArticleA Milk Capsule that Dissolves in Hot Drinks
Researchers at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) have developed a milk capsule with a soluble shell.
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ArticleFirst 'Plastic Free Trustmark' Launched
The world's first Plastic Free Trust Mark was launched today. The brainchild of environmental campaign group A Plastic Planet, the Trust Mark will be awarded to food and drink products that are packaged without plastic.
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ArticleSmurfit Kappa Reports Successes in Annual Sustainable Development Report
Smurfit Kappa has achieved a 26% reduction in CO2 emissions three years ahead of time, according to its annual Sustainable Development Report, which was published on Tuesday.
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WRAP, INCPEN and ACP Present Recommendations on Packaging Regulatory Reform
Following a round table discussion convened by the Secretary of State, Michael Gove, in December last year WRAP, INCPEN and ACP have, for the last two months, been engaged in a comprehensive programme of discussions with stakeholders.
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ArticleStora Enso Launches Biocomposites as a Renewable Replacement for Plastics
Stora Enso is launching its wood-based biocomposites, DuraSense™ by Stora Enso. This is another major step on the group’s journey to replacing fossil-based materials with renewable solutions.
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ArticleWPO announces winners of 2018 WorldStar Packaging Awards
May, 2018 Over 500 people attended the WorldStar Awards Presentations & Gala Dinner, the most important global packaging competition in the world, organized by WPO (World Packaging Organization).
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ArticleWorking towards a Sustainable Packaging Revolution
The global movement to highlight the enduring environmental and potential health impacts of plastics has kick-started wide-ranging programmes to reduce use and improve recyclability of single-use plastics
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ArticleNew Near-Infrared Detectable Black Masterbatch
Specialist additive and masterbatch manufacturer Colour Tone has launched a new generation of competitively priced near-infrared (NIR) detectable masterbatches to satisfy brand owners ‘end of life’ recyclability concerns.
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New Smaller Lube Cube To Be Unveiled
Industry leader FUCHS Lubricants is to unveil a new smaller Lube Cube as the company continues to move away from plastic packaging.