03 May 2024 --- Starbucks is partnering with Podback to allow customers to pick up Podback’s free-of-charge drop-off recycling bags across all of its 1,250 UK coffee shops. The bags can be filled with used coffee pods... Read More

03 May 2024 --- Swedish and Norwegian customers of the multinational probiotic R&D company Probi, based in Sweden, will soon be able to get a deposit back for their empty supplement bottles. The company has announced a... Read More

01 May 2024 --- PulPac has joined the not-for-profit print and paper advocacy group Two Sides as a new member. The UK-based Two Sides campaign is a collaboration of companies from sectors including forestry, pulp and paper... Read More

01 May 2024 --- Novolex is investing in US-based reusable systems and container brand Ozzi. Eco-Products, a Novolex business unit, will help accelerate Ozzi’s portfolio growth. Novolex has not disclosed any financial... Read More

30 Apr 2024 --- Ardagh Glass Packaging-Europe (AGP-Europe) is acquiring Swedish glass recycler Svensk Glasåtervinning (SGÅ). 

18 Mar 2024 --- We speak to Matthew Wright, CEO and founder of Specright, about how its Specification Data Management platform can help packagers make sense of packaging data gathered throughout the value chain, to optimize design and tie-up packaging waste loopholes. Wright also shares insights from the company’s recent sustainability consumer survey and exemplifies recent innovations such as the Coca-Cola label-free bottle that highlight consumer preference for ease of recycling.

14 Mar 2024 --- We talk to Martin Kersh, executive director of the UK’s Foodservice Packaging Association, about legislation surrounding quick-service restaurant solutions and the need for increased government investment in collection and recycling infrastructure. We also discuss new reusable and recyclable packaging innovations.

29 Feb 2024 --- Coveris’ BU Paper R&D director, Will Mercer, tells us how Coveris is adapting to the changing packaging landscape with recyclable product solutions and investments in recycling infrastructure. We also discuss legislative changes in the UK and EU and how clarification, collaboration and reinvestment are needed for companies to adapt for the future. 

13 Feb 2024 --- According to Gilles Swyngedauw, vice president of corporate social responsibility and product sustainability for Cosmetics & Fragrance Packaging at Albéa Group, biomaterials are not inherently superior to fossil-based materials. Swyngedauw warns that what may work for the automotive or textile industries might not work in the packaging industry due to limited recycling streams. “Product safety is part of what we call responsible packaging, and we cannot compromise on that.”

07 Feb 2024 --- We speak to Bart Willems, the co-founder of Dutch company Bottle Up, which uses sugarcane-based bioplastics to create reusable water bottles. We discuss cost competitiveness with fossil-based materials and how policy changes could aid the transition toward bio-based and reusable packaging. 

12 Oct 2023 --- The circular economy action plan is a central aspect of the European Green Deal. The plan aims to ensure that waste is prevented and resources used are kept in the economy for as long as possible, reducing pressure on natural resources and creating sustainable employment and development. The plan is a prerequisite to achieving the EU’s 2050 climate neutrality target and halting biodiversity loss.The US Environmental Protection Agency has created similar plans, along with numerous other countries globally. The UN has established the circularization of global economies as a central pillar to achieving the Paris Agreement targets and ensuring a sustainable recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.In this webinar, we discuss how the packaging industry is developing solutions to aid the transition toward circularity, whether a fully circular economy is possible, and the main challenges and benefits for business leaders.

03 Jul 2023 --- As international leaders, civil society groups and environmental campaigners continue to negotiate legislative solutions to the global plastics pollution crisis, we look at Innova Market Insights’ Top Trends 2023, with “Plastics Circularization” ranking top. In this exclusive webinar, we debate the viability of turning our linear economy into a loop, whether this is even possible, and how start-up and mainstream packaging innovators are rising to the challenge. We discuss how circularity efforts are impacting greenwashing litigation, boosting renewable material sourcing, and how connected technologies and reusable designs are aiding the industry’s transition toward a more sustainable future.

26 Apr 2023 --- In this PersonalCareInsights webinar, we revealed clean beauty innovations, discussed the impact of the latest industry regulations and shared how personal care brands can smartly contribute to the circular economy.Watch this webinar as we presented exclusive global data from Innova Market Insights and spoke with experts from Givaudan, Arkive and the European Environmental Bureau.

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!

12 Apr 2022 --- The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the packaging industry, accelerating e-commerce expansion, heightening consumer hygiene concerns and refocusing industry efforts around “building back better” with circular economies. But what lasting impacts will the COVID-19 experience have on the packaging industry? Join us as we explore the future of packaging in a post-pandemic world with Akhil Aiyar, projects leader at Innova Market Insights.