Arla is launching a line of co-branded milk bottles together with fast food restaurant chain McDonald’s. The new product will have a maximum capacity of 250ml and will be available across 1,270 UK McDonald’s restaurants. ...
Tags: Meal Milk Bottles, milk bottles
Green chemistry firm Carbios has developed a new technological solution for recycling of opaque polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastics such as milk bottles. Since 2012, the company has been involved in developing an enzymatic recycling ...
Tags: Carbios, Opaque Plastics
Tomlinson’s Dairies has announced that it will invest £14m to expand its milk processing plant in Minera, Wales. The expansion plan comes in wake of bagging a supply contract from Sainsbury for its stores in Wales and also in ...
Cadbury is launching two new products into Australian supermarkets, ‘Lolly Bag’ and ‘Party Mix’. Both products are a mixture of lollies and Cadbury chocolates. The Lolly Bag contains jelly worms, milk bottles, ...
Nampak Plastics, the UK based producer of plastic milk bottles, is planning to set up a new plant in Stirling, Scotland, to manufacture a range of plastic milk bottles. As part of this effort, the firm has signed a lease deal on 20,000 ...
Tags: Nampak Plastics, Plastic bottles, Investment
Last week, Closed Loop Recycling, the biggest recycler of plastic milk bottles, said that it was on the brink of administration. The move was blamed on the drop in the price of oil and that its customers wanted to buy recycled plastic but ...
Tags: Dairy Crest, Dow, Packaging
Fresher for Longer, a new initiative launching this upcoming academic year, will educate secondary school students, their schools and parents to source, store, cook and dispose of food in an energy-efficient and environmentally responsible ...
Tags: Food Programme, Packaging
The plastic milk bottles producer’s Infini bottle has been recognised as an innovative and efficient product, winning the “Judges’ Award for Packaging Innovation”. Nampak claims the bottle is the world’s ...
Tags: Infini bottle, Award, Packaging
Cable said the recycler was an example of companies that are stimulating demand, generating jobs and building the infrastructure for the long term development of the green economy. Closed Loop claims to be the first recycler in the world ...
Tags: PET plastic bottles, HDPE Plastic Bottles, Packaging, Green Economy
Nampak Plastics, the UK’s leading producer of plastic milk bottles based in Newport Pagnell, has announced that sales of its multi-award-winning Infini bottle have reached the 500 million mark. Since its launch in 2012, sales of the ...
Firm expands European portfolio with environmentally conscious toy line. Bigjigs Toys has expanded its European portfolio, taking over the distribution for Green Toys in the Benelux region. The deal covers Belgium, the Netherlands and ...
Tags: Green Toys, Toys
Nampak, producer of plastic milk bottles, commissioned the survey which found that 316,054 tonnes of plastic bottles were collected for recycling in 2012, and of those, 96,396 tonnes were HDPE milk bottles. Steve Morgan, technical manager ...
Tags: Milk Industry, Recycling Practice
The bottles feature blue snowflakes on whole milk bottles, green Christmas trees on the semi-skimmed and shiny, red stars on the skimmed. Cravendale is supporting the new pack launch with a 1.2m media campaign. Sophie Macaulay, ...
Tags: Cravendale, launch, limited-edition, Christmas, bottle
The recycling specialist will increase capacity at its Dagenham plant from 35,000 to 55,000 tonnes per annum to meet demands of the dairy industry as it works towards higher recycled content targets, while also diverting a further 30,000 ...
Closed Loop Recycling is all set to expand the HDPE recycling capabilities of its Dagenham-based plant with investment in new infrastructure. The move is expected to double the supply of recycled HDPE (rHDPE) to the UK market to ...
Tags: HDPE Recycling, Closed Loop