All Packaging articles – Page 25
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Comment & OpinionWhy supermarkets must help fix the plastic recycling process
The solution must be simplified and demystified, says professor Edward Kosior of Nextek and Nextloopp
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Analysis & FeaturesCan emergency talks rescue Defra’s multibillion environmental flagship?
Thérèse Coffey has called for talks with industry to thrash out a new design for extended producer responsibility. Can the scheme be saved?
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NewsEx-Unilever boss Sebastian Munden becomes new Wrap chair
Munden replaces Julie Hill, who had been with the food waste charity since 2014
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NewsBart Ingredients launches refill herb and spice cartons into Morrisons
The cardboard packs would ‘help reduce the emissions associated with transporting the ingredients by more than three times’, Bart Ingredients claimed
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NewsDanish Crown invests £100m in new UK factory using 100% renewable energy
The new 30,500 sq m processing facility will use automated production equipment and processing technology to slice and pack bacon and gammon
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NewsNestlé wraps Quality Street chocolates in different colours due to foil shortage
The Green Triangle has been wrapped in gold packaging, while Orange Crunch has been packaged in dark bronze foil in a limited run of cartons, tubs and pouches
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NewsDizzie launches ‘reusable packaging as a service’ ahead of crowdfund
The offering is multi-category: dry food is available now, with another category due next year
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NewsSainsbury’s stocks imported eggs in response to shortage
The supermarket has had to broaden its supply chain following national issues with egg supply
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Comment & OpinionBehaviour change is vital to increasing recycling rates
With all eyes on COP27, policymakers and business leaders should have waste management and recycling high on their agenda, says Cecilia Sluga, behaviour change lead at Delterra
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Analysis & FeaturesCan WWF’s ‘critical friend’ approach get mults to deliver on climate?
WWF insists being a ‘critical friend’ is more likely to get results than slamming supermarkets for sustainability failures
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Comment & OpinionCompostable plastic packaging is a complex issue. We need a national recycling policy
To abandon policy to individual choices and market forces is an abdication of responsibility and a failure of government, says Guy Singh-Watson, founder of Riverford
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NewsCopycat products artificially hiking prices in cost of living crisis, claims new report
Evidence sent to Trading Standards and the Competition & Markets Authority by the group contains nearly 30 examples of retailer own-brand products BBG claims use ‘parasitic’ tactics to target shoppers
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NewsAldi struggling to hit 2022 plastic reduction target
The change is taking longer than expected for the final 1% of own label packaging, thanks to a lack of viable alternatives
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NewsWrap defends industry’s use of ‘confusing’ compostable plastic
Abel & Cole last week said it was scrapping compostable plastic
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NewsDriscoll’s completes Berry Gardens acquisition
Driscoll’s said the acquisition of the UK’s largest supplier of berries would help it to ‘become the world’s berry company’
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Comment & OpinionWhy Abel & Cole is ditching ‘compostable’ plastics
Research has shown compostable plastic can only break down under very specific conditions, says Hugo Lynch, sustainability project manager at Abel & Cole
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NewsAbel & Cole scraps compostable plastic packaging due to sustainability concerns
The online retailer said it was still working on alternative packaging options, but that it will remove packaging altogether “where it won’t compromise food safety or quality”
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NewsTesco ‘rewinds the clock’ and cuts plastic with return to loose bread
Doughnuts will now be sold in a fully recyclable paper bag with a glassine window
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Comment & OpinionRecycling rules are almost as confusing as the chaos at Westminster
Climate change body Wrap produced a report today showing just how bamboozled the average household is by their local authority recycling guidelines
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NewsWalkers invests £14m into sustainable packaging moves
The crisps giant claims the move will remove 250 tonnes of virgin plastic from its supply chain annually