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 [...]
I think this is what they call ‘open-loop’ recycling! (Martin)
Recycled house has a lot of bottle
via BBC News – Recycled house has a lot of bottle.
Tom is professor of art and design at Nottingham Trent. I’m going along to hear him and Janet Shipton speak at a Future factories seminar on Friday this week (19th). Should be interesting (Martin).
We tend to assume that used consumer packaging is just waste. When it stops being a necessity, waste packaging becomes an inconvenience, [...]
I’ve just seen a press release from the Local Government Association (yes, them again) that tells me that the possible cost of the Christmas clear up is as much as £78 million over the normal cost of waste disposal. That’s 230,000 tonnes of waste food, 10,000 tonnes of wrapping paper, 25,000 tonnes of packaging and [...]
There has been a piece flying around the internet, a blog post on the American Planet Green site. Here’s a link to it. It looks well researched, and gives us some figures about percentage of municipal waste dumps acounted for by packaging, some comparisons of Carbon footprints by materials etc, then tells readers how they [...]
Another one found and Twittered by JoAnn Hines (@packagingdiva) – She’s good! I can’t hep thinking that this all sounds a bit like cellophane, though. Still, good idea if it works and if it doesn’t use more energy to produce than the plastic would have done (Martin)
ScienceDaily (July 2, 2009) — Margarita Calafell, a researcher [...]
Trials run by WRAP (Waste & Resources Action Programme) show that non-bottle household plastic packaging – margarine tubs, fruit trays and yoghurt pots which are a recycling bugbear for many consumers, can now be recycled. And a competition run by WRAP could provide the funding to stimulate the UK recycling infrastructure and enable this to [...]
Reusable and refillable packaging increasingly offers a profitable solution to marketers targeting environmentally conscious consumers. But what makes a refillable product successful, and why do so many fail to hit the mark? A new study published in the Packaging Technology & Science journal examines what consumers want from refillable packaging and how manufacturers can make [...]
The glass sector has a new foot soldier in the battle to promote recycling in the form of Hank, ‘the singing bottle’.
The European Container Glass Association (Feve) has developed Hank to appear in cartoon adventures about glass recycling using the ‘I’ll be back’ line made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger in 1980s movie, The Terminator.
via Singing [...]
Well, there’s something that had never occurred to me (Martin)
The Reusable Packaging Association (RPA) has just released the results of a fire safety study that shows reusable containers are no more dangerous than their corrugated cardboard couterparts.
The study, conducted by RPA and various insurance companies, fire risk consultants and fire testing experts, [...]
