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
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.
The article highlights our collaboration with Esselunga in providing Eco-Envelope , an ecological alternative in paper instead of the more traditional bubble wrap for home delivery of e-commerce orders.
The company has been driving several initiatives towards sustainable growth, including introduction of eco-friendly paper shreds, replacing poly pouches with recycled paper bags, replacing bubble wraps and airbags with carton waste shredded material and two-ply roll.
Amcor has designed a family of stock polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles that help co-packers meet the demanding requirements for e commerce-ready packaging.
New trends the packaging industry is adopting to take on various functions (which vary from storage to branding) expected from the packaging of a product.
In summary, frustration free packaging is a packaging that has passed the new tests established by Amazon for sellers and distributors.
Aptar leverages BAP (bonded-aluminum to plastic) technology to combat this e-commerce packaging frustration. BAP creates a permanent seal between the closure and container, making it ideal for the rigors of e-commerce distribution. In particular, the prototype Olympian 120mm closure is a great solution for sports nutritional powder packages, with its easy-to-open pull-tab, convenient flip top design, and hygienic scoop holder.
A new DHL Trend Report discovers how e-commerce era drives wave of sustainability and efficiency, and breaks down the trends accelerating the need to rethink packaging.
E-commerce giants Amazon and Flipkart need to fulfil their extended producer responsibility under the Plastic Waste Management Rules, 2016
The main objective of packaging is to protect the product. Simple. It is important to remember because sometimes it is forgotten and our spectacular new package design doesn´t work, the product is damaged when it is transported, and the spectacular becomes useless.
To avoid that, since decades, testing the unit loads has been an important part in the good packaging design process. The big player in this field is the association ISTA (International Safe Transit Association), that gathers the main experts in the transport packaging field and is continuously creating and updating different test protocols for this topic. This group of experts handled to create those protocols which include tests to measure the resistance of our package to the standard forces the package can find along the way such as drops, impacts, vibrations, compression.
TÜV SÜD is now a member of the Amazon Packaging Support and Supplier (APASS) network. TÜV SÜD’s experts are authorised to perform assessment, testing and certification of packaging used by suppliers and intermediaries in the network according to international standards
