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HolyGrail 2.0: Major brands sign up to explore digital watermarks to improve packaging recycling

More than 80 major European brands, including P&G, PepsiCo and Mondi will collaborate to explore the feasibility of using ”digital watermarks” to improve the sorting…

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Bimbo Bakeries, TerraCycle partner to recycle bread bags

Bimbo Bakeries USA, a baking company based in Horsham, Pennsylvania, has partnered with TerraCycle, Trenton, New Jersey, to make its bread, buns, bagels and English…

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Naked strips out virgin plastics with 100 per cent recycled bottles

Smoothie brand Naked is now manufacturing all its bottles from 100 per cent recycled plastic, brand owner PepsiCo announced this week, with the shift advertised…

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Stora Enso to produce bio-based packaging foam

Stora Enso, headquartered in Helsinki, will build a pilot facility to produce Cellufoam, which it describes as “a lightweight, fiber-based foam material for protective packaging…

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Metsä Spring and Valmet to build €20m pilot plant for 3D fibre products

Finnish firms Metsä Spring and Valmet will be working together to build a €20 million pilot plant in Äänekoski, Finland, to produce new products from…

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DS Smith Launches ‘Circular Design Principles’ to Eliminate Waste, Drive Sustainability in Packaging

As pandemic-induced online shopping has boosted demand for boxes, DS Smith, a sustainable packaging leader, today launched its Circular Design Principles, citing company research that…

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Starbucks reintroduces reusable cups to stores

Having reopened stores under Government guidance, Starbucks is enabling the use of reusable cups in a safe method. No shared touchpoints are in place between…

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Nestlé Purina hits zero waste target

St. Louis-based Nestlé Purina PetCare Co. it has reached its goal for 2020 to achieve zero waste for disposal across all manufacturing operations in the…

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Kroger Now Offering Free Recycling for Simple Truth Packaging

The Kroger Co. recently announced the launch of its Simple Truth Recycling Program, offering customers a free way to recycle the flexible packaging of more…

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Microsoft announces new recycling, sustainability goals

Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, has announced it plans to achieve zero waste in its direct operations, products and packaging by 2030. To address its waste creation,…

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DS Smith releases recyclable paper coolers

DS Smith, a packaging, paper and recycling company with headquarters in London, has announced that it has produced a 100 percent recyclable cooler, using its…

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Amazon introduces boxes that can be recycled into cat condos, forts and other creations

Starting this week, some Amazon orders will be delivered in ”more environmentally friendly” boxes that can be turned into a rocket, car or fort for…

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Amazon customers want plastic-free options, says survey

94 per cent of Amazon shoppers in the UK are concerned about plastic pollution, as a new campaign is launched to get the online retail…

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Cathedral City launches solution to cheese’s plastic recycling challenge

A new frontier in plastic packaging recycling was opened this week, as Cathedral City announced a scheme to recycle flexible film cheese packaging. Cheese packaging…

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Aldi to halve plastic packaging use in the UK by 2025

The new commitment will see 2.2 billion pieces of plastic removed from the supermarket’s product lines over the next five years, most of which will…

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Keurig Dr Pepper commits $10m to improve polypropylene recycling

Keurig Dr Pepper has committed $10 million over the next five years to increase and improve the recovery and recycling of polypropylene plastic in the…

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New plastic de-inking method yields ‘near virgin transparency’

Recycling firm APK AG and printing inks producer Siegwerk successfully completed de-inking trials of twofold printed low density polyethylene (LDPE) films. The strategic collaboration between…

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Kleenex debuts plastic-free tissue boxes as Mr Muscle unveils 100% ’ocean-bound’ plastic bottle

Kleenex will remove the plastic opening from all tissue boxes by August 2020, parent firm Kimberly-Clark has announced in the same week that SC Johnson…

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Banana leaf packaging and pineapple powder: How Dole plans to eliminate food waste by 2025

In R&D labs, the company is now exploring ways to turn pineapple skins and banana leaves into packaging, developing new snacks from misshapen produce that…

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Recycling laggard Greece to discard single-use plastic

Greece has drafted a bill banning the use of a range of single-use plastics, from takeaway coffee cups to cotton buds, ahead of an EU…

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