Solving packaging and food waste through government – industry collaboration

One of the greatest risks facing industry today is well-intended though poorly conceived policies. Poorly conceived policies have the potential to worsen the issue(s) that they seek to address. This…

Why we shouldn’t use compostable and biodegradable packaging

Éco Entreprises Québec (ÉEQ) and consulting firm SOLINOV, which specializes in environment and organic waste management, have produced a report on the use and end-of-life impact of compostable and biodegradable plastic packaging and the environmental challenges they cause

Fast food burritos to get paper wrappers

Quesada Burritos & Tacos is phasing out foil for packaging its burritos in favour of biodegradable paper, starting this April. This translates to diverting about 100,000 pounds of aluminum or…

Tetra Pak tackles packaging sustainability

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…

Canadian companies endorse Golden Design Rules

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…

Sealed Air invests in plastics recycling technology

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.

Report slams corporate inaction on plastic pollution

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…

Recycled packaging for Philly cream cheese

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…

Reducing food waste through better packaging

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,…

Using lots of plastic packaging during the coronavirus crisis? You’re not alone

Amid understandable concern over health and hygiene during the pandemic, the problem of disposable plastics has taken a back seat