Plastic Packaging

The bottles incorporate CleanFlake label technology from Avery Dennison, an Ohio-based label design and manufacturing company, which helps improve the yield of high-quality, good-grade PET in the recycling process. CleanFlake technology is built on a water-based adhesive technology that reportedly separates cleanly from PET during the caustic wash stage of the recycling process. No adhesive residue remains on the plastic, meaning it can be processed into clean, high quality, recycled PET flakes.

This is currently being used in a pilot scheme by a sustainable activewear brand, with plans for a wider roll-out later in the year.

The reusable packaging pouch has the potential to be used over 20 times with consumers encouraged to return the packaging to the retailer after every use. 

It is made from recycled polyethylene (rPET) and is currently available to manufacturers and retailers in three sizes, depending on the size and quantity of items dispatched.

LyondellBasell PB-1 resins are commonly used in consumer packaging applications for easy-open packaging and film modification for seal initiation temperature providing:

• Broad seal-peel temperature range

• Consistent and reproducible peel performance

• Adjustable peel force to end-use requirements

• Similar initiation and propagation peel force 

• "Whitening" with "Smooth & Clean" peel surface

• Good seal integrity 

• Easy processability

The new innovative packaging is composed of a core layer of rPE2206, a low-density polyethylene (LDPE) grade made of 100% PCR content and part of the RE:clic circular polymer range, and high-performance Lumicene® and Supertough® metallocene virgin resins. It exhibits identical properties and thickness as fossil-based alternatives with a significantly reduced environmental footprint.

• Labels will be removed from Sprite and Sprite Zero 500ml rPET bottles as part of a limited trial designed to simplify the recycling process, and reduce use of packaging materials
• Consumers will find the new “label-less” bottles in eight Tesco Express Stores in Brighton and Hove, Bristol, London, and Manchester from January to March 2024
• Labels on 500ml Sprite and Sprite Zero bottles will be replaced with an embossed logo on the front of the pack and laser-engraved product information on the back

The pilot will see labels temporarily

Ball screws are highly efficient at transmitting force and converting motion (e.g. rotational to linear) and are widely used in many kinds of industrial machinery. In the process of fulfilling their function of converting motion and transmitting force, ball screws achieve significant energy savings. The 100% plant-derived material achieves 90% lower carbon footprint

Bormioli Pharma, a provider of pharmaceutical packaging and medical devices, and Loop Industries, Inc., a clean technology company focused on manufacturing 100% recycled polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic and polyester fiber, partnered to create a pharmaceutical packaging bottle manufactured with 100% recycled virgin quality Loop PET resin.

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• Following a successful trial last year, scheme will roll out in 19 additional M&S stores including Liverpool One which opened at the end of last year – bringing the total number to 25.
• As part of Plan A, M&S has committed to remove 1bn units of plastic packaging by 2027, last month M&S met their target to remove 75 million units in 2023/24.

Following a successful trial in six stores last year*, the scheme will roll out in a further 19 M&S stores across the UK** including Liverpool One, which opened at the end of last year – bringing the total numb