23 Mar 2023 --- Nesta’s social enterprise Challenge Works has delivered the Afri-Plastics Challenge awarding a total of £4.1 million (US$5 million) funded by the Canadian government to scale innovations aimed at... Read More

21 Mar 2023 --- The fire in Brahmapuram garbage dump in Kerala, India, lays bare the country’s ineffectual waste management systems. According to reports, the massive fire that lasted for nearly two weeks resulted from... Read More

08 Mar 2023 --- Amazon has invested in bioplastics company Genecis through its Climate Pledge Fund as part of its commitment to support women climate tech entrepreneurs. On International Women’s Day 2023, we sit down with... Read More

07 Mar 2023 --- The European Commission’s (EC) proposed revisions to the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD) promise growth opportunities for bioplastic suppliers by mandating that only industrially compostable... Read More

06 Mar 2023 --- Achieving improved sustainability in environmental and human health continues to be a major challenge for the flexible plastic packaging sector. Big industry players like Mondi are designing recyclable solutions... Read More

14 Sep 2022 --- Live from Drinktec 2022 in Munich, Germany, we speak to Krones’ head of corporate R&D, Dr. Sven Fischer, about the company’s efforts to tackle some of the world’s central problems, such as food waste and climate change, through new technology. Fischer highlights some of Krones’ “visionary” solutions that are not yet on the market.

26 Apr 2021 --- Rabobank is reporting a huge amount of investment in advanced recycling globally and expects the number of plants to double to around 140 by 2025. Susan Hansen, global strategist for F&A supply chains at Rabobank, explains why advanced recycling is an important tool in the battle against plastic waste but not the silver bullet. Hansen also outlines the challenges facing advanced recycling, COVID-19 impacts on investment and how and why Rabobank is analysing these new technologies.

07 Oct 2020 --- Wipak is on a mission to become the first carbon neutral packaging company in the world. Speaking from the Innovation Plastics Processing and Recycling Conference in Berlin, Germany, Hery-Christian Henry, head of strategic marketing and corporate social responsibility, discusses raw materials, renewable energy, carbon offsetting and solving the plastic pollution and climate change problems simultaneously.

01 Oct 2020 --- A study from Tetra Pak and Lund University, Sweden, unveils four plausible scenarios that could impact the dairy industry landscape by 2030, including anticipation that dairy alternatives will grow by 25 to 65 percent by 2030, with lab-grown dairy potentially occupying up to 50 percent of the market. Bengt Eliasson, subcategory manager of dairy ambient at Tetra Pak, and Christian Koch, a postdoctoral researcher at Lund University, share their insights on these latest research findings.

16 Jun 2020 --- David Clark, VP Sustainability at Amcor, joins PackagingInsights to discuss the drive for more circular packaging and waste management systems, including the incorporation of recycled content and the plastics packaging giant's recent decision to join the WWF-led ReSource: Plastic environmental consortium. Clark also shares his insights on the impacts of COVID-19 on public perceptions of plastics packaging.

14 Dec 2022 --- In this last webinar of the 2022 series, we will discuss consumers’ preferences for food packaging, how the packaging industry can protect human and environmental health through shelf life-extending technologies, advance waste management, and inspire global governments and F&B businesses to bolster the circular economy. Register now and submit your questions to give them the best chance to be answered!

16 Sep 2021 --- This webinar explores the accelerated growth of e-commerce home food delivery in the COVID-19 age, with special focus on the challenges and opportunities this trend presents to F&B packaging suppliers. Daniela Dorner, eCommerce director at Mondi and Akhil Aiyar, senior market analyst at Innova Market Insights, provide exclusive presentations and answer your questions on climate change, circular economy, product protection, the unboxing experience and more.