Cardboard Tetra Pak tackles packaging sustainability January 27, 2021 Tetra Pak has introduced a new collaborative innovation model with leading paperboard producers, a move aimed at tackling the food packaging industry’s sustainability challenges. According to the latest research the global…
Packaging Canadian companies endorse Golden Design Rules December 10, 2020 TORONTO – More than 20 Canadian retail and consumer packaged goods companies, representing a substantial proportion of the nation’s plastic packaging, are among the first to support new global…
Circular Economy Sealed Air invests in plastics recycling technology August 12, 2020 CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Sealed Air Corporation has signed a collaboration agreement with Plastic Energy, which has developed a chemical recycling technology to transform traditionally non-recyclable plastic waste into hydrocarbon products.
Circular Economy Report slams corporate inaction on plastic pollution June 18, 2020 BERKELEY, Calif. – The largest companies are far too slow in adopting responsive actions and promoting reusability, recyclability, or compostability in their packaging, and are failing to shift away…
Packaging Recycled packaging for Philly cream cheese June 3, 2020 EVANSVILLE, Indiana – Berry Global Group, Inc. will supply Mondelēz International with packaging containing recycled plastic for Philadelphia cream cheese. The package contains plastic material recovered using advanced recycling technology…
Education Reducing food waste through better packaging June 2, 2020 VANCOUVER – Paper or plastic? Glass or tin? Or no packaging at all? A new research report from the National Zero Waste Council reveals the relationships between food waste,…
COVID-19 Using lots of plastic packaging during the coronavirus crisis? You’re not alone May 15, 2020 Amid understandable concern over health and hygiene during the pandemic, the problem of disposable plastics has taken a back seat
Packaging Regulations may boost less sustainable plastic alternatives May 8, 2020 Plastics have become the public face of the waste pollution crisis, prompting an unprecedented consumer and regulatory backlash. Industry is responding by switching to other materials without considering their environmental impact.
COVID-19 European recycling markets reel from coronavirus March 23, 2020 Industry worried about limited volumes entering collection systems, logistics disruptions, potential downstream demand losses in non-packaging sectors, buyers abandoning sustainability measures and a reduction in necessary long-term investment
Business Operations Transcontinental to recycle plastics March 2, 2020 MONTREAL – Packaging and media giant TC Transcontinental is creating a recycling group within its packaging division. The new group will start purchasing equipment for converting flexible plastics recovered from…
