Some of the biggest global brands and packaging manufacturers will pilot a new common language of definitions to benchmark sustainability in the Global Packaging Project (GPP).
Big names including Coca-Cola, Unilever, Procter & Gamble, Wal-Mart and Kraft are outlining the final terms, alongside Crown, Sealed Air, Alcan, SCA and Tetra Pak, as part of the [...]
Marks & Spencer M&S has announced 80 new initiatives under its ‘Plan A’ eco programme and committed to begin implementing them within the next five years.Amongst the most ambitious commitments set out today by the high street retailer is to ensure that at least 50 per cent of M&S’ 2.7 billion products across 36,000 product [...]
Supplier rationalisation and the introduction of the packaging scorecard will be key elements of Asda’s work on packaging over the coming months, the retailer revealed at easyFairs over the past two days.
Asda’s buying manager for packaging and the environment Shane Monkman told the audience at a Packaging News-run learnShop that supplier rationalisation was a “massive [...]
This could be, finally, a genuine way of cutting through a lot of the, er, rubbish that is talked about packaging and sustainability, though it still runs the risk of starting from a point of ‘packaging bad’ (Martin)
The world’s most powerful brands and packaging manufacturers are to pilot a new common language of definitions to [...]
The Times has published an exposé of Manchester University’s Sustainable Consumption Institute being funded to the tune of £25 million by Tesco. In SCI’s latest report, they favourably mention Tesco’s green point scheme for reusing carrier bags while ignoring the Irish compulsory bag charge scheme. Now, while I realise that University departments have to develop [...]
Delighted to have been able to go along to the UK Packaging Awards last night, presented by Packaging News. They are always good nights, and I quite like getting dressed up in my monkey suit and schmoozing the great and the good of the industry. I can also tie my own bow tie, which means [...]
Ho hum. More from the world of retail. I’m sure the employees who work in the glass walled ASDA will be delighted that customers can watch them picking their noses in the warehouse. Because people are ignorant of the actual task that packaging performs, all that will happen is that the ‘Chosen By You’ thing [...]
I’m a bit bored of Wal-Mart’s holier than thou attitude to this. Ultimately the public will vote with their wallets and decide where they want to go shopping, but let’s be honest, who goes shopping at Asda because they want to? Walmart/Asda do a fantastic job supplying EDLP food etc and their market appreciate it. [...]
