Sustainability

Making the Case for Plastics Packaging

Gary Buchalter, Innovations Director, RPC bpi protec, warns against demonising plastic packaging and writes about the potential benefits plastics packaging

Tesco to Remove ‘Best Before’ Dates off Selected Fruit and Vegetable Lines

Tesco is to remove ‘Best Before’ consumption guidance dates off nearly 70 fruit and vegetable lines in a move to

Smurfit Kappa MB12 Food-Safe Carton Now Available for Primary Packaging

Smurfit Kappa’s MB12 carton is now available for primary packaging. The food-safe MB12 packaging helps customers to eliminate

Southgate® launches household-biocompostable air pillow film

One of the most popular methods of protecting goods in transit has been air pillow film; it needs little storage

Euro Group encourages Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Return

This week, Euro Group introduced the launch of its brand-new, multi-use mailing bag concept, Retain/ Return. As a

Stora Enso accelerates growth in renewable materials by co-operating with the start-up Sulapac

Stora Enso and Sulapac have signed a joint development agreement to combat the global problem of plastic waste by accelerating

Focus on Sustainability, Digitisation and Efficiency at Hispack 2018

The digitisation of the industry, sustainability, logistic efficiency and the improvement of the experience of use of packaging have been

New UK Company Unveils Plans to Revolutionise End-of-life Plastic Recycling

A new company has announced its plans to build and operate new plastic recycling plants in the UK, using a

Packaging Connections 18/05/2018

A new generation of compostable coffee capsule

Flo has introduced Gea, an industrially compostable coffee capsule created in partnership with NatureWorks. Flo’s Gea capsule is the

Dow and Pumpart take ground-breaking tube design to next level

The Dow Chemical Company’s Packaging and Specialty Plastics business (P&SP) has teamed up with PumpArt System, a

A Milk Capsule that Dissolves in Hot Drinks

The new milk capsules are basically sugar cubes filled with milk or condensed milk. "Thanks to their sugar crust,