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 [...]
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 [...]
Supreme Creations, the eco-friendly bag manufacturer, is working with Loughborough University to look at opportunities for using its textile materials in packaging.
via Supreme Creations seeks eco-friendly packaging applications | packagingnews.co.uk.
Valpak, the packaging recycling compliance scheme, has published guidance for UK companies considering whether to use the Green Dot logo on their packaging.
Valpak is responsible for monitoring the UK use of The Green Dot that is used in a number of European countries to show a firm has met its obligations as outlined in the [...]
Interesting article that acknowledges the importance of life-cycle analysis for product design, and doesn’t just go ‘packaging bad’ (Martin)
“Designing backwards” is a process by which designers take a mental journey, starting from a design project’s ultimate destination and working backwards until we arrive back at the design studio. It’s a multiphase brainstorm process, really. Along [...]
The Sustainable Packaging Coalition is an industry working group inspired by cradle to cradle principles and dedicated to transforming packaging into a system that encourages economic prosperity and a sustainable flow of materials.
via Sustainable Packaging Coalition.
OK, I’m after some opinions here. I am worried that as packaging people we are being led down a blind alley, which is soaking up research and development time and is ultimately pointless. The point of ’sustainability’ is, presumably, to be able to continue manufacturing something once its raw material source is in short supply. [...]
Students who designed a collapsible hot drinks container called ‘Shut the Cup Up’ won praise from brand experts at the recent easyFairs® packaging show – but their innovative, eco-conscious concept wasn’t enough to land top prize.
via Food Processing : ‘Shut the cup up!’.
I wandered into the lounge last night to see a journalist touting around a big blue wheelie bin of plastic packaging waste. Didn’t spot the name of the programme. I only had ten minutes to watch before going out to band rehearsal, but it seemed actually quite a balanced piece. Yes, there’s waste, but yes, [...]
