Rigid Packaging

Ready meals, meat, and more to be served on Yangi’s dry-formed fibre tray

Yangi intends to replace traditional plastic food trays with a dry-formed, fibre-based alternative geared towards ready meals, meat

Sustainability Perspectives: Replacing polystyrene with recyclable materials

Sustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Lasso Loop’s ‘smart-bin’ recycling system

As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to Lasso Loop Recycling about its

Aldi to replace plastic savoury goods packaging with cardboard trays

Aldi has announced plans to remove the plastic windows and trays from several of its savoury goods lines, a move

Sustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: Plastipak’s ‘metal-free’ aerosol solution

Plastipak is a finalist in this year’s Sustainability Awards with its SprayPET Revolution aerosol container, said to be fully

SABIC’s 50% ‘ocean-bound’ PP resin moulded into food vacuum container

In a move set to eliminate over 300 plastic bags per person and reduce CO2 emissions by 30kg per capita,

Berry launches ‘fully recyclable’ alternative to coloured PET pill bottles

Berry Global has launched a range of clarified polypropylene (PP) bottles for healthcare applications, said to have a reduction of

Sustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: John West’s recyclable multipack can solution

As part of our Sustainability Awards Finalist Interview series, we asked John West about its ECOTWIST aluminium foil stickers, used

Avantium markets plant-based PEF polymer under Releaf brand name

Avantium’s plant-based, recyclable polyethylene furanoate (PEF) polymer – recommended as an alternative material in packaging, bottle, and textile production

How Unilever thinks about packaging sustainability

When we last spoke to Unilever about its controversial decision to extend the timeframe on its sustainable packaging targets, head

Sustainability Awards 2024 Finalist Interview: ALPLA’s ‘colour-to-colour’ HDPE recycling method

As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to Martin Bonat, polyolefin recycling expert

EndFlex aims to improve efficiency with wrap-around case packer

EndFlex has launched its Boxxer Wrap Around Case Packer, apparently designed to provide ‘unparalleled efficiency and versatility’ and use less