The GO ORLEANS research project has reportedly facilitated the use of whey in an active packaging solution to extend the shelf life of cheese by five to ten days and cut down on a pollutive by-product of cheese manufacture. The Agri-Food Business Federation of the Valencian Community ...
Seventeen projects have been selected to receive a total investment of £3.2 million as part of UKRI’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging Challenge in a bid to improve the use and management of plastic packaging in the UK. Its choices range between seaweed-based biomaterials, reusable packaging systems, and an AI-based global map of marine plastic pollution.
Smurfit Kappa has claimed a 43.9% reduction in CO2 emissions since 2005 in its sixteenth annual Sustainable Development Report, apparently keeping the company on target to reach net zero emissions by 2050.