March 2013

the holiday and festive season is over, and the trash trucks have cleared away the curbside leftovers that come with the feasting and giftgiving. as per the information given by environmental protection agency, from thanksgiving to the new year&39s day, household waste raises by more than 25 percent, adding up an extra million tons a week to landfill waste. half of the 85 million tons of paper products, which america consumes every year, goes toward wrapping, decorating, and packaging consumer goods. in the world of packaging, there is a sustainability crisis.

the dupont awards for packaging innovation commemorate revolutionary achievements in the sector of consumer product packaging, with a focus on sustainability and innovation, as well as waste and cost reduction. many of the 2012 victors used plastics to create packaging that allows consumers to do more &hellip with less. the winners use minimum material, generate less waste, weigh less, utilize less energy, and produce less emission&mdashdepending on the packaging. here are few examples of this year&rsquos winners, some of which are already offered on store shelves.

plastic is a sufferer of its own success. it&rsquos so cheap, practical and flexible that we produce millions of tons of it each year. it&rsquos being widely used right across the board, from high performance plastics used in motor vehicles to cheap containers for food. however, getting rid of plastic is terrifying. it lasts apparently forever, and waste plastic is a mounting blot, not just on the land but the whole environment. it is a fact that most plastic can be recycled. it can be ground up or melted and reused, even though it tends to be downcycled each time.

the costs relate to a total utilization quantity of 479,800 tons of tinplate, in germany, which had been used as food cans, containers for chemical products, closures for glass containers, aerosol spray cans, crown caps, and drinks cans, as well as for industrial are uses. this compares with a quantity of 450,400 tons of tinplate which have been sent back to steel producers as a worthy secondary raw material. private consumers lead in the steel packaging consumption with the biggest share. private consumers generate around 401,900 tons waste of steel packaging.

kids against hunger is a foodaid organization. its mission is to slash the number of hungry children in the usa and to provide food to starving children throughout the world. kids against hunger is not associated with or restricted to a specific religious group and when it comes to distributing its meal, it does not discriminate on any basis.

in an effort to boost its visibility to customers, casite has redesigned the packaging as well as branding of its motor honey automotive chemicals. the new packaging, which has been introduced recently, features clear bottles, uvcoated face labels, no mess pulltab, easytoread neck labels, and multilingual descriptions. along with these, company&39s familiar bee symbol, &ldquobuzz,&rdquo has been given a new ultramodern look while continuing to be an essential part of casite&rsquos motor honey, power steering honey, and tranny honey packaging according to the company.

activists are requesting the state to forbid the chemical in infant as well as toddler food containers. there is no chemical alternate for the bisphenola which is used in baby food lids and infant formula cans. though, companies can use another type of packaging to keep the food protected, a new york environmental consulting firm has concluded in its report. the maine department of environmental protection appointed techlaw inc. of east chatham, n.y., to examine alternatives to bpa. bpa is a chemical which is used to line lids and cans and avert bacterial contamination.

if you have ever been so hungry that you don&rsquot even wanted to unwrap your food, then here is good news for you. you&rsquoll be delighted to know the days of anxiously ripping through cellophane can soon be a thing of the past. edible packaging is now again back on the agenda. bob&rsquos, which is a brazilian burger chain, has launched a marketing campaign where it replaced plastic wrappers with one that hungry consumers can chomp without unwrapping it. the interest given to readytoeat wrapping has been rising steadily as scientists try to lessen millions of tons of waste.

an exhibition, opened at hamburg, looking for alerting people to the threats of the plastic in our daily lives. this exhibition has painted a stark picture of how plastic accumulates in the world&39s oceans and affects its ecological system. this exhibition also reveals how plastic particles can come into the food chain and come back to us through our dinner plates. the hideous mess is a must see for everyone who wants to have bad ethics for the correct reason during the celebration of consumerism that is christmas.

the national retail federation estimated that consumers will spend around 586.1 billion for gifts in the months of november and december, 2012. it is obvious that, with all those gifts, a lot of waste will also come. u.s. environmental protection agency estimated that, during thanksgiving and new year&rsquos day alone, nationwide, an additional million tons of waste are generated each week.