A range of popular French craft beers can now be enjoyed in 25cl Eco-Line cups from RPC Bebo Bouxwiller. Based in Carpentras in Provence, La Brasserie Artisanale du Mont Ventoux, under the leadership of its founder Alexandre De Zordi, and with the arrival of a partner investor Rhône Rive Gauche, has expanded production over the past two years from 500 to […]

Leading foodservice packaging manufacturer, Graphic Packaging International will supply half a million sustainable food buckets to KFC Australia for Australian cricket’s Big Bash League 2018. Graphic Packaging’s award-winning, non-plastic solution was selected by league sponsor KFC Australia due to its outstanding eco-credentials. Manufacture of the recyclable bucket, which has been developed and commercialised over the last five years, is exclusive […]

Earlier this week, Phillip Hammond announced the Budget 2018. Focusing on the introduction of the single-use plastic tax, Miguel Campos of food packaging manfuacturer Advanta, has supplied a comment on the new tax scheme and how he believes this would be best implemented: During a consultation exercise this year, the public backed plans to reduce single-use plastic cups, packaging and […]

A family-run supplier of bottles and dispensers is leading the way for 100 per cent recycled plastic packaging by working with a university on innovative research Cambrian Packaging, based in Newtown, Wales, has teamed up with Business Wales and the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) to commission the research into rHDPE (recycled high-density polyethylene) polymer at Bangor University. The […]

Within the textile network PlasTexTron, Starlinger recycling technology is searching for an ecologically and economically sound solution for the recycling of mixed textile waste of multi-material composition. Three universities and eight Austrian companies are involved in the COIN-project TEX2MAT, which is led by the Plastics Cluster of ecoplus, the business agency of Lower Austria, and funded by the Austrian Federal […]

Outstanding and sustainable packaging solutions will be at the heart of Sonoco Europe’s booth at this year’s FachPack trade show from 25 to 27 September in Nuremberg, Germany. The design of booth 5-247, hall 5, mimics a life-like environment consisting of a kitchen area and a supermarket corner. A ‘Wall of Recyclability’ shows how Sonoco reduces material consumption and ensures […]

RPC Design has created a unique grading system that provides an easy visual guide to the sustainability credentials of each new pack it creates The department already uses a special sustainability checklist for all its projects to ensure it is designing for the circular economy, taking into account factors such as lightweighting, reuse, and the incorporation of recycled material, as […]

OPRL’s PREP UK packaging design tool goes live this week with UK recycling infrastructure data for testing, ensuring recyclability assessments fully reflect current UK collections and processing infrastructure As part of its support to member signatories of the UK Plastics Pact, OPRL committed to “Launch our sustainable packaging design tool as a standard part of membership, enabling members to meet […]

Sustainability is not a term of the future, but of the present. It is here to stay, to be part of industry, of society, and of the new generations that are waiting their turn, and we must all be attentive to understanding in what way we can, and should, be part of the process of change  Any new production system […]

Two Sides, a global organisation that promotes the attractiveness and sustainability of paper, welcomes Smurfit Kappa, one of the world’s leading packaging companies, as a new member With increasing consumer concern and media scrutiny on packaging and, in particular, single-use plastics, the world is looking for more sustainable solutions. A recent nationally-representative survey of UK adults, conducted by Two Sides […]