Plant-based meal kit firm Purple Carrot has further strengthened its mission of sustainability with the introduction of a new 100% curbside recyclable packaging solution. The new corrugated boxes, which has been designed to help minimize ...
The UK’s top packaging event – Packaging Innovations (Inc. Ecopack and Contract Pack), Label&Print and Empack 2017 – returns to NEC, Birmingham on 1 & 2 March, with an impressive five shows under one roof, over 350 ...
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Amcor will discuss its approach to sustainability and highlight a broad range of innovative packaging solutions at the SustPack 2016 conference planned to be held from 11-13 April at McCormick Place in Chicago. Under its theme of ...
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According to a recent report one third of all food produced in the world ends up as waste, costing consumers globally more than £259bn per year. In addition, around 200,000 tonnes of the 15 million tonnes of food thrown away in the UK ...
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Who are the world’s biggest polluters? A report by non-profit environmental and social responsibility organisation, As You Sow, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), examined the packaging practices of forty-seven fast ...
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A report from the nonprofit organisation, As You Sow and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), reveals that while there is a rise in the use of plastic packaging across the US market to meet the needs of fast food and consumer ...
Tags: plastic PET bottles, Agriculture
Packaging and waste management projects do not always begin with the impulse to improve sustainability. What the PCA demonstrates in its new resource, The Business Case for Packaging Sustainability is that there are benefits in considering ...
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Against the backdrop of the recent 2014 APC Awards announcements, APC CEO Stan Moore considers the value of recognition, sustainability, and signing up. PKN: Why was this awards program established? Stan Moore: It is important to ...
Kellogg has announced new global sustainability commitments in two areas – responsible sourcing and natural resources, that are actionable until 2020. "This company was founded on the belief that there's an inherent goodness in ...
WhiteWave Foods, a leading consumer packaged food and beverage company that makes Silk, Horizon, International Delight and Earthbound Farm products, has announced green building certification of its beverage manufacturing facility in ...
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Victoria University has a big act to follow. At last year’s IAPRI World Packaging Conference, a record 170 delegates from 24 countries were represented. There were 93 presentations for the oral and poster categories, produced by some ...
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I joined GreenBlue last fall as the new executive director and Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) director. Now that a year has passed, I would like to take this opportunity to reflect on some key industry milestones in 2013 and talk ...
US-based Dow Chemical's Adhesives & Functional Materials business has expanded its food packaging solutions with the addition of new Hypod water-based polyolefin dispersions. The water-based system also includes properties of polyolefins ...
International product and supply chain standards setter GS1 has added packaging sustainability to its raft of data tracking capabilities, announcing it has joined The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) and released a new standard, the Global ...
Smithers Pira, in association with Packaging Digest and Pharmaceutical & Medical Packaging News, will be returning to Orlando, FL, in March 2014 for the 8th annual Sustainability in Packaging conference and exhibition. This year's event ...