Sustainable packaging developer CardPak has announced the purchase of a 50,000ft2 building in Aurora, Ohio, US. The company will use the facility from 1 March 2013. According to CardPak, the additional manufacturing capacity will help it ...
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As food and beverage cartons become more common on grocery store shelves, they are also becoming more common in curbside recycling bins. In 2009, a group of carton manufactures joined forces as the Carton Council to increase carton ...
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Food packaging is approximately a$340 billion industry worldwide.In the U.S.,about a third of household waste is food packaging,and much of this cannot be recycled. Gifts totaling$2.2 million from The Wegman Family Charitable Foundation ...
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As consumers increasingly look for economical ways to live, and gravitate towards unique retail experiences, "bring your own packaging" (BYOP) has gone from kooky concept to a credible retail business model. For many brands, the idea of ...
The board of directors of GreenBlue have announced the appointment of Nina Goodrich as executive director of the organization. Goodrich will also continue in her current role as program director for GreenBlue's flagship project, the ...
As the sustainability trend continues and more companies turn to employees who are specifically trained in eco-friendly production, a growing number of colleges and universities are offering sustainability-related curriculum. In fact, more ...
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DISCLAIMER: UBM Canon is the parent company of Packaging Digest. The 12th edition of Pharmapack Europe, Feb. 13-14, 2013, Grande Halle de la Villette (Paris), will welcome more than 3,000 visitors from all over the globe and around 280 ...
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Demonstrating its commitment to optimizing packaging materials recovery in the United States, the American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN) will release the preliminary results of a survey of recovery activities in the ...
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The global market for packaging machinery is projected to reach $52.9bn by the year 2018, according to a new report by Global Industry Analysts (GIA). The worldwide economic uncertainty notwithstanding, the high-performance packaging ...
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Coca-Cola's plant-based PET packaging claimed progress in soft drink and water bottles. In less than three years, Coke has sold more than 10 billion PlantBottles that contain plant-based mono ethylene glycol, which represents 30% of the ...
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Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE), a marketer, producer, and distributor of Coca-Cola products will announce two new sustainability proposals that obligate the company to setting the standard for sustainable packaging, achieving zero waste. In ...
The How2Recycle label introduced by GreenBlue would soon appear on Yoplait yogurt packs, Orville Redenbacher popcorn and Aveda acne pads as part of a pilot program to reduce consumer confusion and to encourage more recycling. The new ...
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Jenni Spinner, Senior Editor -- Packaging Digest, 12/4/2012 7:00:00 AM While sustainability is growing ever louder as a packaging buzzword, a wealth of questions about the concept and its potential impact on the industry remain. On ...
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Posted by Rick Lingle, Technical Editor -- Packaging Digest, 11/29/2012 4:04:27 PM The Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC), a project of sustainability nonprofit GreenBlue, is pleased to announce additional participants in the soft ...
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Swedish food processing and packaging solutions provider, Tetra Pak is set to increase the carton recycling rate in Arabia to 20% by 2020 from the existing 3%. Tetra Pak Arabia environment manager Mohamed Angawi addressing the importance ...
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