Sustainability

Campaign group Surfers Against Sewage, which released its annual audit on Friday, looked at more than 30,700 individual polluting items collected by more than 4,000 citizen scientists along coastlines, canal paths, bridleways and city streets over a 12-month period up to June 5 2023.

The audit found that 12 companies are responsible for more than two thirds (70%) of branded pollution collected over the year.

Ahlstrom’s Cristal™ base papers are an optimum solution for transparent packaging. By partnering with adapa and Maped, the three companies have developed fiber-based window packaging for a popular school supply – erasers.   
 

• New grammages of 80 g/m², 200 g/m² and 350 g/m² extend the previous 95 g/m² and 120 g/m² IQ GRASS + PACKAGING range with up to 30 percent grass fibres
• Optimised for a wide range of liners and folding boxes as well as finishing: hot foiling, embossing and folding
• Now, in addition to flexo printing, also suited for offset printing
• Perfect material for high-quality product packaging such as jewellery, cosmetics and luxury items

The choice of the optimal packaging material in term

KORE, the global pure-play Internet of Things ("IoT") hyperscaler, and provider of IoT Connectivity, Solutions and Analytics, announced today its initiative to reduce waste and support sustainability by reducing the size of card bodies in its SIM shipments.

McDonald’s is selling its apple slices using plastic packaging with “The Little Mermaid” branding on it, a move the fast-food giant is known to replicate with many major Disney films.  

A Redditor posted a picture of the packaging to highlight the irony, considering how so much plastic wrapping ends up in our oceans, writing, “One apple slice in this plastic baggie, advertising a movie about the ocean…”

The image was posted on the popular Reddit community r/Anticonsumption, which has 605k members.

This investment marks the first of its kind from Dow on the continent and expects to enable approximately 90 kilotons (kt) of plastic waste to be recovered over four years and recycled into new packaging applications. With the support from Dow and other investors, Mr. Green Africa plans to expand its operations in Kenya where it is headquartered as well as in other countries in Africa, further extending the capabilities of its recycling efforts across the continent. 

• Lidl is extending Prevented Ocean Plastic™ to its water bottle packaging
• From July, the retailer’s San Celestino Italian sparkling mineral water bottles will incorporate the ocean bound plastic
• The permanent change will prevent the equivalent of nearly 4 million plastic water bottles from entering the ocean each year
• Lidl is also changing all milk caps from coloured to clear, further improving their recyclability

Appearing in store throughout July, Lidl’s 1 litre San Celestino Italian Sparkling Mineral Water bottles will contain a minimum of 3

From coffee cups to juice and milk cartons, designers now have a reliable, industry-backed reference to make the best recyclability choices for these types of packaging. It is a major step forward in reaching the goal of providing a holistic, practical and comprehensive tool for the industry to use in all fibre-based packaging design.