The Finnish food company Fazer introduced its Fazer Aito and Fazer Yosa oat snacks in paperboard cups in May. The new cups are more responsible and reduce plastic more than half compared with the former packaging. Also, the carbon footprint is lower: the new paperboard cup of Fazer Yosa 200g has 56% less CO2 emissions throughout its life cycle*.
Smurfit Kappa has launched an innovative and sustainable new pack which keeps frozen and chilled foods fresh throughout the supply chain.
For oral liquid and sterile injectables, the technology provides an alternative to glass, minimizing product loss resulting from breakage.
Gualapack, world leader of premade spouted pouches, is strongly committed to improving circularity and sustainability in flexible packaging. Now, we are proud to present Pouch5®, a range of 100% mono-material standup pouches, recyclable as polypropylene (PP), within existing PP streams.
Plastic pollution and disposal of single use plastic packaging is a huge sustainability issue in need of innovative solutions: latest results from the EU-funded project YPACK show that an innovative formulation of active ingredients could allow this biodegradable food packaging to prolong the shelf life of foods and therefore reduce food waste.
Flipkart had earlier announced it would eliminate single use plastic in packaging. The idea was to move towards using 100% recycled plastic in its supply chain by March 2021
Cambridge Crops develops an edible, imperceptible coating that might replace plastic packaging to preserve meats and produce.
Scientists at the National Agri-Food Biotechnology Institute (NABI) based in Mohali, India, have developed non-toxic, edible coating materials to improve shelf life of fruits & vegetables based on wheat straw hemicellulosic polysaccharide (WP) and stearic acid derivatized oat bran polysaccharide (SAOP) that promise to overcome the problems of highly perishable produce going bad before reaching the consumer – currently running at 25-30 percent in that country.
RecyClass Recyclability Methodology document provides comprehensive information on the assessment methods used to assess and certify recyclability of a plastic package. By certifying packaging compatibility with a recycling process, the methodology is geared towards setting a level playing field for design for recycling claims of the value chain actors.
Amazon India has minimised packaging waste across its supply chain, by expanding its India-first initiative, Packaging-Free Shipping (PFS), to over a 100 cities in the country.
AGI glaspac’s retail segment, Greendrop Glassware launches this new line of product on -all leading e-commerce sites. The product is developed using advanced technologies Germ Guard Technology and Active Silver Technology
Boots UK patients will start to receive their medicines in brown paper bags when they collect their prescriptions in store.
