All Sustainable Packaging Summit articles – Page 3
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Cajo Technologies’ ink-free marking technology
Ahead of this year’s Sustainability Awards taking place in Amsterdam next week, we spoke to finalist Cajo Technologies about its laser marking technology for cardboard, Cajo MakeBright, nominated in the Commercialized Machinery category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Cirkla’s pulp-based packaging
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to Cirkla about its pulp-based packaging with a peel off liner, designed for high barrier applications and nominated in the Pre-Commercialized Recyclable Packaging category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: RecycleMich’s app to encourage recycling behaviour
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to Ines Kilnhofer, project lead of RecycleMich about its recycling app, designed to improve recycling behaviour by incentivising users, nominated in the Commercialized Best Practice category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Circular’s Cartridge Refill System
With the Sustainability Awards only two weeks away, we asked Joel Wells of Circular about the company’s Cartridge Refill System, said to cut plastic use and emissions by over 80% and a finalist in the Pre-Commercialized Climate category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Huhtamaki’s recyclable, heat-sealable barrier paper
Ahead of the Sustainability Awards next month, we spoke to Huhtamaki as part of our Finalist Interview series about its OmniLock Ultra Paper, nominated in the Commercialized Recyclable Packaging category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Lasso Loop’s ‘smart-bin’ recycling system
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to Lasso Loop Recycling about its Lasso ‘smart-bin’ for recycling household plastics, glass, and metals, nominated in the Pre-Commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Plastipak’s ‘metal-free’ aerosol solution
Plastipak is a finalist in this year’s Sustainability Awards with its SprayPET Revolution aerosol container, said to be fully recyclable and metal-free. Nominated in the Pre-Commercialized Recyclable Packaging category, we spoke to the company to find out more.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: John West’s recyclable multipack can solution
As part of our Sustainability Awards Finalist Interview series, we asked John West about its ECOTWIST aluminium foil stickers, used for the company’s multipack tuna cans. Said to reduce plastic waste and CO2 emissions, the entry is nominated in the Pre-Commercialized Recyclable Packaging category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: ALPLA’s ‘colour-to-colour’ HDPE recycling method
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to Martin Bonat, polyolefin recycling expert at ALPLA about the company’s red rHDPE - utilized for Werner & Mertz’s Rorax pipe unblocker - and its recycling method for coloured plastics, nominated in the Commercialized Best Practice category.
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PodcastThe growing role of co-packing - with Ton Knipscheer
Ton Knipscheer of the European Co-Packers Association talks to Tim Sykes about the reasons why contract manufacturing is more and more central to the strategies of not just retailer’s private label products, but also to delivering the innovation to brands. We also discuss the need for dialogue between the co-packing sector and the wider packaging-FMCG world, particularly in order to ensure alignment around sustainability objectives that contract packers will have an increasing role in delivering.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Taghleef’s PHA-based films designed for home compostability
As part of our Sustainability Awards Finalist Interview series, we asked Taghleef Industries about its collaboration with Corapack to develop biobased films for flexible packaging, said to be home compostable and nominated in the Pre-Commercialized Renewables category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Reelables’ 5G Smart Label
As part of our Sustainability Awards Finalist Interview series we spoke to co-founder and CEO of Reelables, Brian Krejcarek, about its 5G Smart Label for shipment tracking, nominated in the Commercialized Renewable Materials category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: the EnEWA project for board and paper recycling
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, RWTH Aachen University spoke to us about the EnEWA research project - a joint entry with Universität Siegen, LEIPA, PROPAKMA, STADLER and TOMRA Recycling - which developed and evaluated a recycling process for paper, board and paper composites, nominated in the Commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Mondi’s filmless paper bag
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards we asked Mauro Vitali, sales manager at Mondi Paper Bags Italy, about the company’s filmless bag, nominated in the Pre-Commercialized Renewables category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Capsa’s reusable cardboard box
Capsa is a finalist in this year’s Sustainability Awards with its reusable cardboard box entry, nominated in the Commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category. We spoke with the company to learn more about this innovation.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Brook + Whittle’s recyclable, light-blocking shrink sleeve
Brook + Whittle is a finalist in this year’s Sustainability Awards with its GreenLabel BlockOut shrink sleeve, aiming to help brands switch from coloured PET to clear PET. We asked the company about this entry, nominated in the Commercialized Recyclable Packaging category. You’re a finalist in the ...
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Pulpatronics’ chipless RFID tag
As part of our Sustainability Awards Finalist Interview series, we spoke to Pulpatronics about its ‘metal-less and chipless’ RFID tag, nominated in the Pre-Commercialized Climate category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Ardagh Glass Packaging’s NextGen Furnace
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to Ardagh Glass Packaging about its NextGen Furnace, designed to reduce the carbon footprint of glass packaging and nominated in the Commercialized Climate category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Shellworks’ biobased mono-material tub
Ahead of this year’s Sustainability Awards, we spoke to finalist Shellworks about its entry, the Vivomer home compostable tub made from microorganisms, nominated in the Commercialized Renewable Materials category.
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ArticleSustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: COPAR’s wheat straw packaging
Ahead of this year’s Sustainability Awards, we spoke to finalist COPAR about its wheat straw packaging, nominated in the Pre-Commercialized Renewables category and aiming to offer a compostable and recyclable alternative to traditional plastics.