Plastic Packaging

The plastic Non-Refillable Fitment (NRF) is commonplace throughout the spirits industry and is currently found in the neck of a number of the company’s iconic drink brands, including Bacardi rum, Martini Fiero, Bombay Sapphire gin and Dewar’s White Label blended Scotch whisky.

The removal has already begun, and by early next year, all 1.75 liter bottles of Bacardi rum – including Superior, Gold and Coconut – in the US, Canada and Puerto Rico will no longer contain the plastic pourer, cutting 76 tons of plastic annually.

The 60-page tool is the result of the concerted efforts of 14 Montreal businesses, which have joined forces to form the Mon Commerce Zéro déchet community.

Starting in the fall of 2021 and continuing for a year, the members of the group explored and shared various initiatives aimed at reducing the number of residual materials, all with the support of several experts.

Dsposal says the Open 3P standard provides a common framework to help all the stakeholders involved in manufacturing, selling and recycling plastic packaging to share data with regulators and government agencies, as well as with each other.

The next phase of the project will see the Open 3P standard being expanded to cover all packaging materials – including glass, metals, paper and wood – as well as the development of a user-friendly, real-time data-sharing platform for the packaging value chain, Dsposal says.

Claranor pulsed light is a non-chemical and athermal surface process. It respects the quality of all types of material: PS, PP, PE, and metal caps, with or without aluminum seal. On caps with a lid, it avoids the risk of chemical product residues under the lid.

Suitable for fresh and processed meat and fish, as well as hard cheese, the new packaging is heat resistant up to 90°C and is made with low Ethylene-Vinyl Alcohol Copolymer (EVOH) content without compromising the shelf-life of perishable foods.

Certified as recyclable by Cyclos-HTP, it is recyclable within Polyethylene (PE) streams** and offers up to 80% lower carbon footprint compared to existing PA/PE thermoforming films.

Natura PCR, a leading film recycler and postconsumer resin (PCR) producer, says it has received a letter of nonobjection (LNO) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that enables the company’s 100-percent-recycled linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) PCR to be used in direct food-contact packaging applications, including packaging for foods stored at room temperature and for refrigerated and frozen foods.

Nestlé has announced a “global first” for its iconic KitKat is being trialled in Australia.

The popular 45g four-finger bars will be wrapped in “innovative new paper packaging” sold exclusively at Coles supermarkets in Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory.

Bars wrapped in the new paper packaging will be sold for a “limited time” from January as the brand explores different avenues to meet Nestlé’s goal of reducing its use of virgin plastics by a third by 2025.