I’d love to hear the views of a PET producer as to whether this is a genuine ‘green’ saving. It sounds convincing – Aluminium is infinitely recyclable, but is it still a benefit when energy is taken into consideration? I hope it is. (Martin).
German retail giant Penny Markt is swapping the company’s ten PET beverage [...]
Here’s a link to an interesting viewpoint article from the BBC website, that makes the very good point that plastic bags aren’t the demons that people paint them as, and the real problem with plastic bags is litter, not Carbon footprint. I believe I’ve been making the same point for a couple of years now. [...]
Big winners include groundbreakers such as Exal’s coil-to-can technology, Coke’s PlantBottle, the compostable SunChips bag, and Entropy Solutions’ Greenbox.DuPont announced the winners of its 22nd DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation during a unique, global Webcast on May 25—the DuPont Packaging Exchange—that featured live perspectives from both competition judges and winners. This year, the DuPont Awards [...]
Any packaging people who want a bit of pomp and ceremony with their packaging should look at this, not only because of the event, which I am sure will be excellent, but also because as a packaging professional you can join the Stationers Livery Company, which leads to being a Freeman of the City of [...]
Right. I really like the new Puma packaging. I think the ‘Clever Little Bag’ is a great idea, given that no matter what you do to training shoes in transit they will pretty much survive, as long as they are kept clean. It shows what innovative packaging designers can do, and if the merchandising is [...]
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 [...]
There is a whole raft of terms that cause confusion (see the piece below) – oxodegradeable, degradeable, biodegradeable and compostable mean different things, and is it, for example, reasonable to describe something as ‘compostable’ when it requires an expert eye to identify the plastic in the first place and then an industrial composter rather than [...]
This is good news – as long as you’re a metal or glass producer, less good for the plastics sector, I suspect. For me, it all depends how deep they are going to go when they consider Carbon issues. There is a mind-boggling complexity at work – for example, how do bioplastics fare, when you [...]
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 [...]
