Category: Packaging
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Future of Flexible Packaging According to Covestro
What do deliciously crunchy chips, crisp green salad and fresh roasted coffee beans have in common? Their bags and pouches belong to a quickly growing category known as flexible packaging – currently the most widely used form of packaging worldwide.
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Reusable Takeaway Packaging Campaign in New Zealand
Single-use takeaway packaging harms both people and the planet, writes Kate Hall. The Takeaway Throwaways campaign exists to change this. The waste conscious consumer’s nightmare: throwaway coffee cups, takeaway containers, plastic cutlery, condiment sachets and those scary soy fish. They’ve become normal in today’s society, but do they have to be? Takeaway Throwaways, a new…
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First Zero Waste Chocolate
It might be shaped like a regular chocolate bar, but the similarities end there. First, it comes in curious flavors: lavender, coconut and cinnamon, banana, masala chai, red rose. And the packaging is more work of art than the kind of wrap you’d find on a Hershey’s bar.
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Jewellery Box by Durasense Biocomposite
Aesthetics comes first when selecting a piece of jewellery, but safe and sustainable materials are equally important. In the best case, the same goes also for the jewellery box. The Finnish jewellery brand Ilonakoru found a solution in boxes made from our DuraSense biocomposite.
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UK Plastic Packaging Tax
British Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak has promised to deliver on the Conservative Party’s manifesto pledge to introduce a plastics packaging tax during his 2020 Budget today.
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Tumeric Extends Shelf Life in Bioplastic Packaging
Researchers in Malaysia have developed a biopolymer film incorporating turmeric oil that stops the growth of a common food fungus and degrades well in soil, they say.
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KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell Stops Polystyrene Foam Packaging
Yum! Brands, the company behind popular fast-food chains KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, will phase out polystyrene foam packaging by 2022 globally, Yum! said Thursday.
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Bulk Food Problem Called Food Moth
Bulk food is developing quickly in organic groceries and supermarkets, but with it comes an insect called the food moth.
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Aldi Imposes Closed Loop Packaging to Suppliers by 2025
If you’ve ever shopped for groceries at ALDI, you’ve probably noticed that the international supermarket chain is filled with plastic and non-recyclable packaging. But by 2025, every single product you see in ALDI will be either package-free or wrapped in recyclable, reusable, or compostable packaging, as ALDI announced last year.
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Grolsch Goes For Smurfit Kappa TopClip
Smurfit Kappa’s sustainable TopClip solution will be launched on the market by leading beer brewer Royal Grolsch as a paper-based replacement for the plastic shrink wrap currently used on their can multi-packs.
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Symphony Gets FDA Approval for Antimicrobial Food Packaging
UK-headquartered biodegradable plastics specialist Symphony Environmental Technologies has secured food-contact approval from the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) for its designed to protect (d2p) antimicrobial technology, to be used in polyethylene film to wrap bread.
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Reusable and Refillable to Solve Plastic Crisis
Companies like Coca-Cola used to collect 98 percent of their bottles – and new entrepreneurs are learning from their tactics.
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Edible Packaging in Japan
In the future, when someone implores a dining companion to “finish off the meal,” it just might mean that they are expected to eat the plate and cutlery, too.
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Lidl Goes Ocean Plastic Packaging
Lidl has become the first supermarket in the UK to launch new packaging made from “ocean bound plastic”.
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Ruinart Champagne Goes for Biobased Packaging
Maison Ruinart’s partnership with prestige paper innovator James Cropper and luxury packaging expert Pusterla, has been a real step change project focused on reimagining the packaging solution as an eco-responsible innovation. New eco-responsible packaging: zero plastic, 100% recyclable and nine times lighter.
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World First Seaweed Takeaway Box
With half a billion plastic boxes used across the takeaway sector every year, Just Eat and Notpla team up to create eco-friendly seaweed-lined takeaway box.
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Malaysia Urged to Reduce Plastic Packaging
Malaysians top the list of per-capita consumption of plastic packaging out of six Asian countries that account for 60 per cent of plastic pollution in the sea.
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Biodegradable Packaging from Fruit Waste Polymers
High performance biomass extracted functional hybrid polymer coatings for food, cosmetic and medical device packaging.
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New Microwavable Bioplastic Bowl
Czech scientists have invented a new kind of bioplastic which they say decomposes remarkably fast– and is highly resistant to heat.
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New Packaging Degrades in 4 weeks
“Our stand in Berlin was a success and our Progetto 2020 insulating range with zero impact aimed at environmental sustainability (called Biopop) dominated the scene,” reports Alessandro Scurria, administrator of Scf Packaging.
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Food Industry Will Not Discard Plastic
Plastic restrictions are sweeping Asia, but the sustainability chief of a regional food and beverage trade association says such measures are not the most effective solution. The industry cannot do without packaging, says Edwin Seah.
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Coop Stops with PLA Containers
Coop stops selling organic meat in PLA compostable containers.
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Full Natural Barrier for Food Packaging
Zanders continues the development of its successful food packaging paper range: the enhanced Zanbarrier NGR (“Natural Grease Resistant”) offers the proven 100 percent natural barrier against oil and grease without the use of any chemicals now with an even higher density.
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New Bioplastics Make-Up Packaging
BRAINY boffins have devised new biodegradable packaging for cosmetics – so customers can look good and do good.
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Novamont Launches Food Cling Film
This breakthrough works with a wide range of existing packaging machines and does not require ad-hoc investments.
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Compostable Packaging Tells When Food is Going Bad
The “best-by” labels on food packaging don’t tell you if the food inside is safe to eat. Food often lasts days or even weeks longer, and these printed dates are one of many reasons that Americans waste as much as 40% of edible food.
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IKEA Replaces Styrofoam With Mushroom Bioplastics
When it comes to sustainable business practices, European companies are unquestionably leading the drive towards greener manufacturing, product development, and packaging.
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Woodlands Dairy Goes for Bioplastics Closure
First Choice Fresh Extended Shelf Life (ESL) milk, manufactured by Woodlands Dairy, one of the largest producers in South Africa, has launched its new biobased fresh milk ESL pack.
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ASDA Tackles Easter Egg Plastic Waste
With Easter approaching, Asda has decided to do something about the mountains of plastic waste created by its own-brand chocolate Easter eggs.
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BASF and Fabbri Group Launch Compostable Cling Film for Food
Ideal combination of breathability, mechanical performance and aesthetics. Certified compostable according to standards for industrial composting and home composting. Innovation contributes to reducing food waste, lowering greenhouse gas emissions and promotes organic recycling.
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Sustainable Food Packaging Starts With Biodegradable fibers
The world produces more than 300 million tons of plastic every year, 50% of which is for single use, according to Plastic Oceans. A significant amount of plastics each year ends up in the waste stream — in oceans, landfills and elsewhere.
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Edible Biodegradable Coatings and Films by Italians
IUV Srl is an innovative start-up that was set up in May 2019 focusing on the research, development, production and commercialization of modern, sustainable and natural packaging. The idea behind it, however, dates back to 2011.
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Nanopackaging
40% of food in America ends up in the trash. Is nanopackaging the answer? Consumer habits aren’t enough to curb the impacts of food waste — packaging companies have the opportunity to make a big difference
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Biodegradable Containers Driven by Consumer Demand
Berkeley Bowl, a two-store independent in California, thrives in the same progressive city that shares its name. As such, it has been doing great business for decades offering natural foods, organic produce, bulk grains and nuts, and now, environmentally friendly packaging.
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UK Becoming Leader in Sustainable Packaging
In 2018, the UK took steps to become a world leader in sustainable packaging. With an investment of £60 million, the government has called on innovators to develop packaging which will reduce the impact harmful plastics are having on the environment.
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Can Glass Replace Plastics?
Sand is over-exploited and an environmental disaster says UN. Sand is everywhere. In infrastructure, bridges, roads, glass, cosmetics … Sand is the most used raw material after water.
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Eco-Friendly Marijuana Packaging
Packaging is a huge part of cannabis product compliance, but oftentimes compliant packages are made from materials that will sit in a landfill for eternity. Read up on sustainable marijuana packaging in this article.
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Nestle Invests Billions in Recycling
Nestlé creates market for food-grade recycled plastics, launches fund to boost packaging innovation.
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Perdue Farms Goes Bioplastics
Perdue Farms says that the company has started making all of its e-commerce shipping boxes from 100% recyclable cardboard insulated with a biodegradable, water soluble, and backyard compostable foam made using high-grade non-GMO cornstarch.
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5 Biobased Materials For Packaging
119 bio-based materials solutions for packaging were analyzed. ADBio Composites, LignoPure, Origin Materials, TBM & Universal Biopack develop 5 top solutions to watch out for. Learn more in our Global Startup Heat Map!
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Valio and Stora Enso Test Biocomposite in Food Packaging
The reusable lids will be used to test the wood based biocomposite in food packaging.
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Demand for Sustainable Packaging Tests Snack Makers Flexibility
Sustainability touches all aspects of snack food manufacturing and has become a major strategic issue – from consumers demanding sustainable products to optimizing operations and reducing carbon footprint.
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New Sanner CEO Wants Bioplastic Packaging for Pharma Sector
Sanner, international supplier of high-quality plastic packaging and components for pharmaceutical, medical and healthcare products, renewed its organisational structure. Ralf Tiemann was appointed CEO of the entire Sanner Group.
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Irish Pupils Create Packaging From Sunflower Stem Pith
TRANSITION Year students Eoin Cottrell and Benjamin Velon, both 16, and 15-year-old Jamie O’Callaghan think that packaging is nuts.
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l’Oreal Launches Plastic-Less Packaging Competition
Are you ready to say ‘hello!’ to a beauty industry with less plastic? We are! By the end of 2020, 100% of L’Oréal’s new or renovated products will have an improved environmental or social profile.
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Brewery 85 Tests Bioplastics Six-Pack Rings
A Greenville brewery is testing six-pack rings made from plant-based, biodegradable fibers.
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Consultation for Flexible Packaging Guidelines in the Circular Economy
CEFLEX is developing a set of design guidelines for consumer flexible packaging. The objective of the guidelines is to support and advise the entire value chain to design and specify flexible packaging suitable for collection, sorting and recycling after use.
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France Takes the Lead in Bulk Sales
Controlling the quantities and the budget, reducing packaging and consuming local and seasonal products: bulk sales have captured the spirit and conquer consumers in France, even if it is still a market niche.
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Braskem, Biowash, Greco and Guerreiro Partner on Bioplastic Packaging
Petrochemical company Braskem has established a partnership with two companies to develop new packaging from biobased plastics and post-consumer resin (PCR).
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Tipa Bioplastics Branded As Plastic-Free in the UK
High-end supplier develops packaging for Natoora, Waitrose and Whole Foods that can be recycled and home-composted.
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New Bioplastics Packaging Made in China
A new material that can keep vegetables and fruit fresh and prevent fogging in food packaging was displayed at a seminar on preservation of agricultural products over the weekend.
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The Double Sustainability Standard of Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola First to Launch Oled Packaging at Commercial Scale, but is it sustainable?
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German Designer Disrupts Shampoo Packaging With Soapbottle
Soapbottle is a packaging made from soap.
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Sulapac and Quadpack Join Forces for Sustainable Cosmetic Packaging
Sulapac, a pioneer in development and manufacturing of sustainable microplastic-free materials, and Quadpack, an international provider of packaging solutions to the beauty industry, have entered into a preferred partnership agreement to provide microplastic-free packaging for cosmetic customers worldwide.
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French Paper and Cardboard Tableware Industry Dies in January 2023
The amendment CD1013 causes serious trouble in the French paper and cardboard packaging industry.
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Circ-Pack Tested Bioplastics Packaging
‘Testing shows that consumers approve of CIRC-PACK products’. As we near the end of the CIRC-PACK project, we put our prototype innovations to the test with consumers around Europe.
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Parkside Wins Two WorldStar Awards For Their Compostable Packaging
Specialist packaging solutions provider Parkside has received a duo of WorldStar Packaging Awards in the food category, rounding off a successful year for its innovative compostable packaging range.
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Biodegradable Packaging Creates More Waste Than Non-recyclable Pouches Says Huel Founder
If you’re annoyed at not being able to recycle your Huel pouch, it’s a deliberate design choice made by the meal-replacement company after it discovered that biodegradable packaging actually creates more waste, founder Julian Hearn said.
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Sweden is Switching from Plastic to Paperboard Egg Packaging
Stjärnägg AB in Sweden is switching from plastic to paperboard in their egg packaging to reduce plastic for environmental reasons.
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New Biodegradable and Recyclable Packaging Material Made From Banana Plant
Indian-Origin Researcher Creates Biodegradable and Recyclable Packaging Material From Banana Plant. Other uses of agricultural waste that the duo have looked at are in the cotton industry and rice growing industry – they have extracted cellulose from both waste cotton gathered from cotton gins and rice paddy husks.
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Sulapac and Fazer Partner to Create Compostable Pralines Box
Finnish companies Fazer and Sulapac have collaborated to create a compostable, microplastics-free box for Fazer’s handmade pralines.
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Parkside Compostable Packaging Solution For Loose Tea Brand
Packaging solutions specialist, Parkside, has collaborated with SUKI Tea to develop a sustainable printed pack for its various loose tea products, replacing a plain design and enabling the company to move closer towards its sustainability goals to be 100% plastic free by 2022.
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Boots Goes Bioplastics
Boots has started rolling out 100 per cent compostable pharmacy bags as part of the company’s efforts to reduce plastic waste in stores.
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Plastic Packaging Scrapped from Iceland Christmas Range
Iceland offers customers reduced plastic packaging on Christmas range. 18 Christmas products have been switched to recyclable paper wrap. The retailer has pledged to scrap plastic packaging from own label products by end of 2023.
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Conde Nast Goes Bioplastics
Magazines wrapping to explore alternatives like recycled plastic from PCR waste, biodegradable bio-based content, paper or naked mailing.
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Tetra Pak Launches First Sustainably Sourced Bioplastic Packaging
Tetra Pak, together with its supplier Braskem, has become the first company in the food and beverage industry to responsibly source plant-based polymers using the Bonsucro standards for sustainable sugar cane.
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Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology Thanjavur Develops Corn Starch Bioplastics Film
The Indian Institute of Food Processing Technology, Thanjavur, has developed a bioplastic film from corn starch granules which can serve as a viable bio-friendly alternative to the synthetic plastic films.
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Bioplastics Elastomers Designed for Overmolding
PolyOne’s reSound OM thermoplastic elastomers, derived from sugarcane, are said to offer hardness levels and performance comparable to standard TPEs.
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Danimer Scientific and Genpak Launch New Bioplastics Food Packaging
Danimer Scientific to be exclusive provider of biodegradable resin for Genpak’s GenZero™ line of takeout food containers
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Morrisons To Stop Black Plastic From Own-Brand Packaging
The move will make 4,000 tonnes of plastic easier to recycle.
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KFC Canada Testing Bamboo Buckets
KFC Canada announced today that they are exploring eco-friendly alternatives for their world-famous buckets. The sustainability commitment will have KFC testing new innovative materials that are both consumer-friendly and a win for the environment, starting with a bamboo fiber poutine bucket in early 2020.
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Philippines Largest Company, San Miguel, Goes For Bioplastics Packaging
Conglomerate San Miguel Corp. on Monday said it is set to become the first Filipino company to utilize fully certified biodegradable plastic packaging.
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Heineken Removes Plastic Rings and Wrap
Cardboard can ‘toppers’ to be rolled out as brewer joins other drinks giants trying to reduce plastic packaging.
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Unilever, Just Eat and Notpla Partner To Launch Sauces in Seaweed Sachets
Just Eat restaurant partners trial a range of Hellmann’s sauces served in seaweed-based, Notpla sachets. The flavourless seaweed sachets are 100% biodegradable, reducing single-use plastic waste in takeaways. Trial is a result of a four-way project between Hellmann’s, Just Eat, Innovate UK and Notpla.
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BBC Covers Bioplastic Tea Bags
You’ve poured the kettle. The tea has brewed. Now how should you dispose of the teabag? The bin? The food waste? The compost heap? Other recycling?
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WFS Joins Air Cargo War on Plastic Waste Using Biodegradable Wrap
WFS has joined a growing group of companies, including Amazon and United Airlines, that are rejecting traditional plastics.
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Packaging Strategy of Mitsubishi Chemical
We were able to put our hands on the packaging strategy and complete technology portfolio of Mitsubishi Chemical.
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New Bioplastic Packaging Material Combines Polygamma-butyrolactone and Polytrans-hexahydrophthalide
Scientists Haritz Sardón, Ainara Sangroniz, and Agustin Etxeberria at the UPV/EHU’s Faculty of Chemistry, along with the scientists, Jian-Bo and Xiaoyan Tang Eugene Y.-X. Chen Zhu at Colorado State University, have created fully recyclable plastic that endorses the circular economy for plastic packaging materials where design and manufacturing fully adjust to requirements about reusing and…
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Selfridges Switches to Bioplastics for Christmas Food Packaging
Selfridges is removing plastic packaging across its own brand range of Christmas food, switching to home compostable alternatives for 90,000 mince pies and 3,000 Christmas cakes.
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A Guide to Sustainable Packaging Labels
Consumers are choosing brands they think are better for the planet, so it’s important they know what they’re getting.
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L’Oréal Launch Paper-Based Cosmetic Tube
Long committed to reducing our environmental impact and improving the footprint of our packaging, L’Oréal is proud to announce the development of the very first paper-based cosmetic tube. The fruit of our collaboration with Albéa, a world leader of cosmetic packaging, its debut on the market is scheduled for 2020.
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Futamura Launches First Compostable Ovenable Film
Futamura, the global leader for sustainable cellulose films, announces the launch of a new product to market, ‘NatureFlex™ 30NVO’, an ovenable grade of its landmark compostable NatureFlex™ films.
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Can Bioplastics Reduce Carbon Footprint of Beauty Sector?
Beauty and personal care manufacturers should consider switching to bio-based polythene for secondary packaging as it can plummet overall carbon footprint, says the MD of Polythene UK.
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Oregon May Allow BYO Food Containers in Stores To curb Plastic Waste
To curb plastic waste, Oregon may soon allow customers to bring their own reusable food containers to grocery stores and restaurants.
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California Bans Travel-Size Plastic Shampoo Bottles from Hotels
In a few years, you’ll no longer be able to rely on hotels in California for those travel-size bottles of shampoo and lotion.
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Are Global Food Packaging Brands Committed to Ditching Single-Use Plastic?
As the world’s relationship with plastic is being radically redefined, academics at the University of Surrey investigate bold new food packaging pledges made by some of the world’s most prominent brands – and question whether these pledges will translate into measurable actions.
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Bioplastic, Compostable Bags: Future of Pet Food Packaging?
More sustainable packaging materials are being developed that could make their way into the pet space.
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Avantium Provides Inner Layer of Paper Bottle
A thin layer of Avantium’s PEF (polyethylene furanoate) will provide the Paper Bottle with the high barrier properties (the ability to withstand gas permeability through the bottle) needed for beverages such as beer and carbonated soft drinks.
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Biodegradable Natural Beauty Brands
A handful of pioneering brands are beginning to realise that our beauty products effect far more than our faces. These natural beauty brands use biodegradable or compostable packaging for their cosmetics to foster a shift in the beauty industry. Using these products could make your run-of-the-mill morning routine into a meaningful ritual that is mindful…
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Swapping Plastics for Paper in the Cosmetics Industry
Stora Enso is introducing a paperboard tube for cosmetics packaging as a new, climate-friendly alternative to plastic tubes.
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Fashion Designer Gabriela Hearst Goes Bioplastics
Gabriela Hearst On Her New Sustainability Focused Mayfair Store, Designed By Norman Foster.
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Pyramid Tea Bags Release Billions of MicroPlastic In Your Tea
Cups of tea could be contaminated with millions of microscopic plastic particles, new research suggests.
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Cargill To Disrupt Paper Packaging With Wheat-Based Starch Innovation
Cargill has expanded its range of packaging ingredients with the launch of C*iBond 25957, a cationic, wet-end starch designed for packaging paper applications.
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PepsiCo is Reinventing How We Think about Packaging
Beverage and snack giant PepsiCo says it can avoid the use of 67 billion plastic bottles through 2025, thanks to the expansion of its SodaStream business. Meanwhile, its wider ‘Beyond the Bottle’ strategy is looking at other ways it can move away from single-use plastic packaging.
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Clariant Launches 25 Organic Pigments for Bioplastics
Launch of organic pigment range conforming to EN 13432 compostable criteria for packaging. More consumer appeal: biodegradable plastics can be colorful too! AF-COLOR has implemented a palette of bio masterbatches based on Clariant’s new range.
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Food Standard Agency Calls For More Research Into Bio-based Food Contact Materials
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has called for more research into bio-based food contact materials (BBFCMs) in order to rule out concerns they could pose allergen risks.
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Iceland CEO Pressured by the Recycling Industry to Use Recycled Plastics
Iceland boss Richard Walker claims ‘Big Plastic’ is pressuring supermarkets to abandon their green efforts.
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Biodegradable and Partially Edible Plastics-Free Flight Tray Created to Cut Waste
A plastics-free flight tray made from old coffee grounds has been designed to cut the waste sent to landfill because of air travel.
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Woodly and Wipak: Partnership for Carbon Neutral Film Packaging Solutions
Wipak and Woodly Ltd. are joining forces to accelerate the shift towards a carbon neutral future.
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Total-Corbion Enters India, to Fight Single-Use Plastic
With the call to dump single-use plastic coming from the prime minister himself, a global leader in biodegradable plastic Total-Corbion has announced its India foray with a technical collaboration with Mangalore-based polymers company Konspec.
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