Sustainability
22 Mar 2023
--- Berlin Packaging is highlighting its carbon-neutral spirit bottles at the International Food & Drink Event (IFE) Manufacturing this week in London (March 20-22). PackagingInsights spoke with Mark Crumpton, a specialist...
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21 Mar 2023
--- Switzerland-based digital can printing company NOMOQ is launching in the UK to capitalize on the growing beverage industry, which is projected to reach over £8 billion (US$9.8 million) in revenue in the UK at the end...
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21 Mar 2023
--- Tata Steel, one of the world’s largest steel producers and one of Europe’s leading steel re-processors, has announced its sponsorship of the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management’s (CIWM) Resources...
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20 Mar 2023
--- Inconsistent data access and a lack of supply chain transparency are the key barriers to gaining credibility on environmental sustainability claims, finds a new report by Smurfit Kappa. The findings, drawn from 440 senior...
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20 Mar 2023
--- Vinventions has secured a sales agreement with climate tech packaging business Packamama to expand the sale and distribution of Packamama’s eco-flat wine bottles in France. “By partnering with Packamama, we can...
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20 Mar 2023
--- The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) aims to increase the amount of uncut fresh fruit and vegetables sold loose to 30% by the end of 2025 and aims to target 50% by the end of 2030. In 2021, the figure was 15%. The...
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17 Mar 2023
--- KHS will present its portfolio of resource-conserving systems to promote circular economy at this year’s Interpack trade show, May 4-10 in Düsseldorf, Germany. KHS’ Innopack Kisters Nature MultiPack machine...
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17 Mar 2023
--- This week in industry news, Toshiba launched an industrial printer to simplify everyday packaging applications and Berry Global Group announced it is launching Typar DrainableWrap to protect multi-story structures....
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16 Mar 2023
--- Korea-based SK chemicals has made a US$100 million asset purchase agreement with Shuye, a Chinese company specializing in green materials to secure the “world’s first” mass production system for recycled...
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16 Mar 2023
--- Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy and its Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag have released a Playbook to provide single-use bag reduction strategies that can be implemented by any retailer...
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16 Mar 2023
--- TotalEnergies and Paprec have signed a long-term commercial agreement to develop a French value chain for advanced recycling of plastic film waste. The deal will secure the supply of materials from TotalEnergies’...
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15 Mar 2023
--- Consumers are driving toward more environmentally and health-conscious lifestyles and food choices, leading to fresh fruit and vegetable packaging innovation, according to Innova Market Insights. We speak to ATS-Tanner and...
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15 Mar 2023
--- A leaked draft of the European Commission’s (EC) Green Claims legislation, designed to combat greenwashing, is expected to raise litigation against packaging companies using vague, impartial and misleading advertising....
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14 Mar 2023
--- Starlinger has presented its first sustainability report for 2022, in which it details plans to reduce its environmental footprint through a number of measures across the company’s supply chain. The report provides...
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14 Mar 2023
--- A newly released study by the 5 Gyres Institute reveals the average number of plastic particles in the world’s oceans adds up to 170 trillion plastic particles, weighing two million metric tons. The study’s...
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13 Mar 2023
--- Environmental campaigners are calling for harsher measures against petrochemical corporations and their transport partners following the Ohio train derailment disaster, after a US Senate hearing last week in which Norfolk...
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13 Mar 2023
--- Hexcel Reinforcements UK has paid £30,000 (US$36,400) after failing to register as a packaging producer and take steps to recover and recycle its packaging waste under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (PRO)...
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10 Mar 2023
--- This week in industry news, PepsiCo started trialing new paper-based outer packaging for its Walkers Baked multipacks, and Morrisons and Yes Recycling opened a recycling site for hard-to-recycle soft plastics in Scotland....
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10 Mar 2023
--- A team of NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) researchers has developed a single-step, organic process to convert PE-based plastic bags and PP-based surgical masks into carbon dots. Carbon dots are carbon-based nanomaterials that have...
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09 Mar 2023
--- ProAmpac and FirstWave Innovations are launching aseptic spouted pouches for baby food, fruit smoothies, coffee and spreads. The tech enables greater manufacturing flexibility for small, custom batches of shelf-stable food...
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