Ecommerce Industry

Together, the companies hope to ensure the reuse of 3 million packaging items that would otherwise have been used once. Items will be collected from customers’ homes as part of Milk & More’s commitment to making sustainable packaging choices easier and more convenient.

Again will clean the collected packaging and sell it back to brands to be refilled and reused. The partnership will extend Milk & More’s zero-waste packaging offering, which currently encompasses 80% of everything it sells.

Smurfit Kappa has created an innovative and sustainable packaging solution specifically tailored for wine, to help businesses in the sector capitalise on the continued growth in eCommerce wine sales.

The new solution holds Amazon’s ‘Frustration-Free Packaging’ (FFP) certification, which is a world first for a generic packaging solution that caters for different case counts and wine bottle types.

The environmental impact of e-commerce has attracted scrutiny from EU policymakers concerned about the amount of packaging waste generated from growing online sales.

Brussels will seek to address this as part of a revision of its packaging and packaging waste directive, due on 30 November.

E-commerce in Europe grew by 13% to €718 billion in 2021, according to industry figures, confirming the sharp rise seen the year before during the COVID-19 pandemic when brick-and-mortar shops were forced to shut down for safety reasons.

Food and beverage (F&B) giant Nestle has forayed into the direct-to-consumer (D2C) space in India with the launch of the D2C platform ‘MyNestle’. 

In a statement, Nestle India CMD Suresh Narayanan said that the D2C platform will offer curated product bundles, customized gifting, subscriptions, and discounts, among others, to consumers. 

Nestle India’s D2C platform will allow consumers to try gourmet recipes and also get free counseling from nutrition experts. Initially, it will be launched in Delhi-NCR and later expand to other parts of India.