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Pusterla Pollards creates Hotel Chocolat hamper box with sustainability focus

28 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

Hotel Chocolat says over 94% of its packaging has been recyclable or reusable since 2021, and the hamper packaging had to both address on-shelf appeal as well as sustainability.

The box features embossed ecofoil finish that covers the lid of the box, with a plastic-free lamination. The lid is embossed in-house by Pollards with a wave texture and a simple black fluted Hotel Chocolat logo in the centre. All print features use vegetable-based inks.

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Robot marine plastic pollution collector Hong Kong students invented offers a cheap solution to clear rubbish-choked coasts

27 Mar 2023
Aditya Panwar

Thousands of tonnes of plastic rubbish drift in the seas of Asia, the region environmentalists cite as the biggest source of the petrochemical waste that chokes coastal waters and leaves beaches looking like rubbish dumps.

Clearing up the massive piles of refuse is a never-ending task, but a new invention developed by Hong Kong student engineers and scientists could help to make a difference.

Plastic pollution is growing relentlessly

Product Highlight – WITHOUT by Ashaya

27 Mar 2023
Sandeep Goyal
Plastic pollution is growing relentlessly

As of 2022, we produce approximately 400 million tons of plastic waste every year globally. Of this colossal amount, 40% is contributed by packaging.[1] It is also estimated that 17 to 20% of all plastic packaging is multilayer packaging.[2]

Multilayer packaging (MLP) materials cannot be recycled using traditional plastic recycling systems and technologies, like mechanical recycling, owing to the chemical incompatibility of the different layers.

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AI FOR BRANDING

27 Mar 2023
Sandeep Goyal
Nutella

Following the theme of last week’s blog, this week’s piece will use pictorial representations of AI-generated brands and parallelly examine commercial success to truly understand the impact of the design of a product once it hits the shelves.

While statistics alone should be enough to reveal what works and what doesn’t, what further analysis will help us define is the reliability of AI.

Michelman’s Coating Technologies Enable Mono-material Structures and Improved Sustainability for Flexible Packaging – Hear the Discussion at Converters Expo on April 13!

27 Mar 2023
Press Packagin…

 Sustainability initiatives rolling out across the globe are catalyzing brands and converters to seek out paradigm-shifting technologies that facilitate improved end-of-life solutions for flexible packaging structures—including both fiber based and film based substrates. You can learn more about this topic during a lively presentation entitled “Integrated Solutions For Recycle-Ready High Barrier Packaging” that will be jointly presented by Michelman's Lori Gobris and BOBST's Chris Marshall at Converters Expo 2023. 

hubergroup India expands its support for rural healthcare – a joint project named “Fartu Davakhanu” with Rotary Vapi Riverside

27 Mar 2023
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Following the successful launch of its medical van initiative last November, hubergroup India expanded its support for rural healthcare in the Indian state of Gujarat with two more medical vans. These new vehicles, which are dedicated to dental and eye care, are equipped with doctors, nurses, and basic medical equipment and will be available in 16 remote villages every week for on-site examinations. For this project called “Fartu Davakhanu”, hubergroup is collaborating with the non-profit organization Rotary Vapi Riverside, which has extensive experience working in the local regions.

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ABB India, Parason collaborate for eco-friendly packaging solutions

24 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

Parason, a major producer and supplier of pulp and paper machinery, has partnered with ABB India to automate and expand the production of environmentally-friendly, compostable packaging solutions. This collaboration aims to reduce the use of single-use plastics and Styrofoam packaging among Parason’s customers, including those in the restaurant and catering industries, transportation, travel, and industrial canteens.

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Indian Startup Uses Rice Crop Waste to Make Biodegradable Foam Packaging–Instead of Burning it

24 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

They say wisdom oft comes from the mouths of babes, and Mr. Arpit Dhupar was at first left scratching his head when his young nephew drew a picture of the world with a grey sky.

Everything else was normal, green grass, yellow sun, white and brown mountains; why was the sky grey? It dawned on him that his nephew was drawing the sky as he saw it every year when the rice stubble was burned: grey.

“We shouldn’t live in a world where we have to explain to kids that the sky should be painted blue. It should be a given,” he told The Better India.

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Sporting Kansas City teams up with Huhtamaki to make Children’s Mercy Park Zero Waste

24 Mar 2023
Grania Jain

The company’s sports partnership in North America features naming rights to the Huhtamaki Shield Club at Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas City and community impact initiatives for the region through support of Sporting Sustainability and The Victory Project. Together with Sporting Kansas City, Huhtamaki is committed to reducing the stadium’s environmental footprint with the goal of zero waste by 2027.

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