The 6 sustainable packaging trends we'll be watching in 2022
GreenBiz
JANUARY 6, 2022
Last year was a reckoning for companies racing the clock to meet their 2025 sustainable packaging goals.
Will 2025 plastic packaging commitments ring hollow?
GreenBiz
MARCH 10, 2023
In 2025, there will be media and consumer outrage around all the failed commitments related to eliminating virgin plastic packaging and increasing the use of recycled material.
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5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021
GreenBiz
JANUARY 4, 2021
5 sustainable packaging developments to watch in 2021. For companies with sustainable packaging goals, 2025 is fast approaching. That’s the year when many have pledged to become zero waste, or to use 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging. Meg Wilcox. Mon, 01/04/2021 - 01:15. Media Source. Courtesy of.
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This acquisition could help make sustainable packaging the normÂ
GreenBiz
JANUARY 29, 2021
This acquisition could help make sustainable packaging the norm . Petersburg, Florida, a manufacturing giant is strategizing on design, development and packaging services for the likes of Apple, Cisco Systems and HP Inc. Deonna Anderson. Fri, 01/29/2021 - 00:30. Across the U.S. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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A 20/20 view of sustainable packaging
GreenBiz
JUNE 15, 2020
A 20/20 view of sustainable packaging. Sustainable packaging is a keystone issue for corporate sustainability. Then the pandemic hit, and the market changed — characterized by higher demand for single-use packages and bags, and lower availability of recycled materials. Used packages need to be recycled. Cheryl Baldwin.
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How Keurig Dr Pepper is increasing its packaging recyclability
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
How Keurig Dr Pepper is increasing its packaging recyclability. One of the goals of the platform was to convert all packaging to recyclable or compostable formats by 2025, while increasing the use of recycled content. . In 2019, Keurig Dr Pepper launched its Drink Well.
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Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19
GreenBiz
MARCH 1, 2021
Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19. During our conversation, we also discussed Ellis’ long-term CSR priorities, the company’s packaging goals and its partnership with Loop. One of those is reducing plastics in Boots-owned brand packaging, in line with the UK Plastics Pact 2025.
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3 takeaways from Colgate-Palmolive's 2025 strategy
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 23, 2020
3 takeaways from Colgate-Palmolive's 2025 strategy. But the company also owns a lot of other brands that offer other consumer packaged goods such as deodorant (Speed Stick), body soap (Irish Spring) and other household cleaning products (Fabuloso). And what are those items packaged in? Deonna Anderson. Wed, 12/23/2020 - 01:15.
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Supporting Business in the Race to Create the World’s Most Sustainable Package
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
Supporting Business in the Race to Create the World’s Most Sustainable Package. In recent years, we’ve seen over 450 companies pledge to dramatically slash their use or production of plastic by 2025 as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation circular economy commitments. The safety and performance of plant-based packaging materials.
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Household plastic packaging collection drops for first time, says RECOUP
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 13, 2023
Plastic packaging use and plastic packaging collection quantities have dropped for the first time in RECOUP’s annual UK Household Plastic Packaging Collection Survey. The UK’s overall recycling rate for plastic packaging from household and commercial sources is 52%.
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How e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative will go 'plastic-free' by 2025
GreenBiz
APRIL 29, 2021
How e-commerce retailer Grove Collaborative will go 'plastic-free' by 2025. Plastic-free by 2025. Anderson: Speaking of the impacts of your businesses, Grove is an e-commerce company, so packaging and plastic is very much a thing to grapple with. Anderson: I want to know more about Grove’s goal to be plastic-free by 2025.
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Offshore Wind to Attract More than $200B Between 2020 and 2025
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 3, 2020
Despite a 29 percent drop in the average global capex per megawatt — a measure of the investment per megawatt generated — we forecast more than $200 billion in capex will be deployed in offshore wind between 2020 and 2025, in a new report. Project sizes and clusters of projects will increase by 63 percent by 2025.
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How Perdue, Smithfield and Silver Fern Farms are reducing packaging waste
GreenBiz
JUNE 17, 2020
How Perdue, Smithfield and Silver Fern Farms are reducing packaging waste. Food companies have a dual responsibility when it comes to waste reduction aspirations: optimizing their operations to minimize food waste while reducing the amount of other materials — especially the waste associated with packaging — sent to landfill.
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3 circular economy trends that defined 2020
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 21, 2020
Despite some setbacks posed by the pandemic (including misinformation about the safety of reusables peddled by industry lobbying groups), the transition from single-use to reusable packaging is building real momentum. While source reduction continues to be the No.
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New service to help businesses assess recyclability of their packaging
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 8, 2024
Sustainable packaging provider DS Smith has introduced a service for businesses to evaluate the recyclability levels of their packaging (“the first integrated paper, packaging, and recycling company to do so.”). Notes [1] DS Smith ‘Now & Next’ target of replacing one billion pieces of plastic by 2025.
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The U.S. Plastics Pact launches new initiative to redesign the plastics value chain at Circularity 20
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 2, 2020
Shooting for 2025, its main goals are: Make sure all plastic packaging is 100 percent reusable, recyclable or compostable . Take action to ensure that 50 percent of plastic packaging is recycled or composted. Have the average recycled content or responsibly sourced bio-based content in plastic packaging be 30 percent.
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Aldi pledges to halve plastic packaging by 2025
Business Green
JULY 12, 2020
Aldi has committed to halve the volume of plastic packaging it uses in the UK by 2025, a move it estimates will prevent 74,000 tonnes of plastic packaging from reaching supermarket shelves. All remaining plastic packaging will be recyclable and made of recycled material "wherever possible", the company said.
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Ulta Beauty is bringing refillable containers back to the cosmetics industry
GreenBiz
AUGUST 18, 2020
which recently announced its 10-year Vision 2030 sustainability plan, is prioritizing initiatives including habitat protection and reimagining its packaging. million , having fully circular packaging by investing $100 million in developing regenerative solutions, and decreasing its greenhouse gas emissions. Natura & Co.,
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GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
companies, governments and NGOs to collectively meet impactful goals by 2025 that they could not meet on their own. Ashley C Hall, Director of Sustainable Packaging, Walmart. By bringing together diverse stakeholders and driving collaborative action, the U.S. Learn about the Pact's launch, targets, and what comes next. Holly Secon.
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Nestlé and Microsoft on financing circular innovations
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
If you're going to use more recycled content, you're going to use alternative materials for packaging, you have to be ready to make the capital investment needed in your infrastructure in your factories. One pocket-size result is new recyclable paper packaging for Smarties candies, popular in the U.K.
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Recycled components and plastic-free packaging: Samsung powers up 2025 sustainability plan
Business Green
AUGUST 15, 2021
All Samsung phones are to feature recycled materials from 2025, the company has pledged as part of a new set of wide-ranging sustainability targets. Firm launches new Galaxy for the Planet sustainability platform in bid to help deliver on tech giant's environmental goals.
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FedEx pledges to be carbon neutral by 2040
GreenBiz
MARCH 3, 2021
FedEx — which uses over 180,000 vehicles to deliver packages across continents and operates the world's largest cargo airline — has been implementing sustainability practices for years, but the announcement represents a major acceleration of the company's commitments. Courtesy of FedEx.
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Take these 3 steps, add $500 million and create a circular economy for packaging, report urges
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 22, 2019
It will take $500 million by 2025 to create the recycling system of the future and dramatically increase the collection of post-consumer plastics, according to the Recycling Partnership.
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Growth in UK plastic packaging recycling being shipped abroad, including to non-OECD countries
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 24, 2024
Split of plastic packaging exported for recycling by receiving country’s OECD or non-OECD status. Importance of digital waste tracking and reviewing the PRN system Digital Waste Tracking will be a vital policy, albeit one that may not come to fruition until 2025.
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Uber offers London drivers incentive package to switch to EVs
Charged
JULY 4, 2024
As part of its commitment that all Uber vehicles operating in London be electric by the end of 2025, the San Francisco-headquartered company is offering its London drivers a three-component PowerUp Package worth up to £22,750 to make the switch. Currently, 25% of miles driven by Uber operators in London are electric.
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Firms target hard to recycle plastic packaging reduction with biodegradable alternative
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 5, 2020
Packaging firm DS Smithand and Aquapak, a developer of biodegradable polymer, are teaming up to develop sustainable fibre based packaging solutions that they say will replace hard to recycle packaging made from combined materials such as cardboard and plastic. Hydropol resin pellets. ”
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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021
GreenBiz
JANUARY 11, 2021
Many celebrated with their CSOs on meeting ambitious corporate targets for 2020, while setting audacious new goals for 2025, 2030 and 2050. Now, in its eventual internal-combustion phaseout, GM can’t seem to make EVs fast enough, and 30 new models are lined up for the market for 2025. million in Neighborhood Grants.
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Crunch time for plastic packaging recycling? Group comments on report
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
The 2021 Survey estimated that 584,000 tonnes of household plastic packaging was collected for recycling in 2020. With a UK target of 70% of plastic packaging being recycled or composted by 2025, the challenges and opportunities are evident. This is an overall collection rate for household plastic packaging of 41%.
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Turning Waste into Power: Hydrogen Fuel from Compost and Its Role in Sustainable Packaging
Hydrogen Fuel News
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
In the search for sustainable energy and waste solutions, compost-based hydrogen fuel and sustainable packaging are quickly emerging as game changers. The Connection Between Hydrogen Fuel and Sustainable Packaging Hydrogen fuel generated from organic waste has the potential to revolutionise the packaging industry.
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Comment: 2024 EPR costs could have a severe impact on businesses’ viability
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
Under the current system, costs are shared between the raw material manufacturers, the convertors, the pack fillers and those that sell packaged product to consumers. The pack fillers, for instance, take 37% responsibility for the weight of the packaging they fill. These costs are estimated at around £1.2 EPR FNCR prices.
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Joint venture aims to create Norway’s first dedicated sorting plant to enable plastic packaging circularity
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 6, 2023
Technology and recycling equipment firm TOMRA has signed a majority ownership agreement with Plastretur, the Norwegian Producer Responsibility Organisation for recycling plastic packaging. The companies will pair up to create a plastic packaging sorting plant located in Norway. Amland, SVP TOMRA Feedstock. “We
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Molson Coors joins Science-Based Targets with 1.5C goal and new plastics strategy
GreenBiz
AUGUST 23, 2019
The beer giant is promising to cut emissions by 50 percent and ensure all packaging is reusable, recyclable, compostable or biodegradeable by 2025.
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Aldi debuts packaging-free products trial
Business Green
APRIL 14, 2021
Supermarket becomes latest retailer to explore the potential for packaging-free groceries. Aldi has today launched a new trial that will see it sell its first packaging-free products at a store in Ulverston, Cumbria.
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Kraft Heinz sustainability chief reflects on 'interdependence'
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 28, 2020
Kraft Heinz also updated its commitments with new targets pegged to 2025. Here are some of the latest commitments, along with perspective on progress so far: Procure most electricity from renewable sources by 2025 and decrease energy usage by 15 percent. Make 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging by 2025.
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'Unpacked': Packaging-free shopping forges ahead as Waitrose launches expanded trial
Business Green
JANUARY 25, 2021
Waitrose is expanding its experiment with packaging-free shopping by integrating unpacked items such as rice, pasta, cereals, and dried fruit into its regular aisles at a trailblazing store in Wallingford, Oxfordshire, the British supermarket giant announced yesterday. It marks the second year in a row that Waitrose has topped the table. "We
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Aldi rolls out cardboard steak packaging, as Absolut toasts paper vodka bottles
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
Latest packaging innovations aimed at cutting back on plastic and carbon emissions, according to firms. Supermarket giant Aldi is taking steps to green its red meat, by rolling out cardboard packaging across its entire steak range in 890 UK stores. A successful trial has shown us that this new packaging enables us to do both.".
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Air France coronavirus bailout package to demand steep emissions cuts
Business Green
APRIL 30, 2020
Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire tells French Parliament €7bn support package would require ailing airline to set goal of becoming world's most environmentally-friendly carrier. The government announced late last week that it would offer a €7bn package of state loans and bank loans guaranteed by the state to the ailing airline.
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WRAP updates voluntary agreements, outlining circularity vision for food, plastic and textiles
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 5, 2022
” “In the last three years of reporting, the UK Plastics Pact has doubled the recycled content in packaging, and driven the significant elimination of unnecessary (84%) and hard to recycle (90%) components in packaging. In practice, not all plastic packaging will be recycled through local authority collections by 2025.
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Commercial-scale facility will recycle all forms of plastic waste
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 26, 2021
Plans for one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025. Mura says it will form the blueprint for a rapid global rollout that will see one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025 – equivalent to nearly half the plastic packaging waste produced in the UK each year.[i]
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Is sustainability undergoing a pandemic pause?
GreenBiz
JUNE 1, 2020
Microsoft committed to protect more land than it operates on globally by 2025. Campbell Soup to transition to 100% recyclable or compostable packaging by 2030. As several of the above headlines suggest, companies are making commitments into 2025, 2030 and beyond. Citigroup to halt all financing for thermal coal mining by 2030.
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'Horrific': Iceland details full scale of plastic packaging sold in its stores
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Iceland managing director Richard Walker calls on government to make plastic packaging tonnage disclosure mandatory in order to tackle plastic pollution crisis. Last year, Lidl's total plastic packaging footprint stood at just over 60,000 tonnes, the figures show. Our message is clear.
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Does plastic have a future in packaging?
Business Green
AUGUST 3, 2021
The idea of only using sustainable packaging – eliminating waste, low carbon footprint, recyclable or compostable - seems easy enough, yet the reality for many businesses is more complex and dependent on the industry they work in. Yet plastic packaging is ubiquitous because it is useful, not to say crucial in many applications.
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AB InBev VP: Our quest for 'agile' sustainable development continues
GreenBiz
MAY 19, 2020
The beermaker’s 2025 goals pledge bold advances in water strategy, returnable or recyclable packaging, renewable energy procurement (its U.S. And our commitment in sustainability, our 2025 goals, they remain the same. . Our commitment in sustainability, our 2025 goals, they remain the same.
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