April 2013

from drink and food to beauty and health, from pet foods to doit yourself products, convenient and innovative portioncontrolled and singleserve packs are being used like never before. in the food market, the ease of singleserve portion controlled packs is now being endorsed as a real means of helping to maintain a healthy diet. understanding what quantity of a serving should be and what amount of calories it contains is considered to be a main way to tackle obesity.

plastic packaging waste was emphasized as a priority concern for action by wrap at an associate parliamentary sustainable resource group meeting which was held in london. while speaking at the industry forum, which was held at portcullis house, marcus gover, wrap&rsquos director for the closed loop economy, mentioned that there was &quota genuine opportunity to recycle more plastics&quot that would support defra&39s consultation on packaging waste and planned new recovery targets from 20132017.

plastic packaging has fuelled many standup comedy routines and birthday party rants. however, soon it may be a matter of past. since many years, environmentalists were trying to compel businesses to avoid using wasteful clamshell packaging. finally, companies have started omitting the use of clamshell not only because the increasing pressure from environmentalist but also due to its costly nature. increasing oil prices might not seems so great when you&39re spending around 70 to fill up your gas tank, but there&39s a surprising perk it has ended the era of clamshell packaging.

the european plastics business is a &pound200 billion industry with the strongest commitment to the utmost standards in the safety, health, performance and quality of its products. about 25 percent of worldwide demand for plastic products is manufactured by european producers who employ 1.6 million people. all of these companies commit with keenness to the regulation and legislation designed to protect the environment &ndash with process innovation and the product is at the core of this.

plastics let us do more with less in various ways.when it comes about packaging, plastics often facilitates manufacturers to transport more products with less packaging material. this procedure of lightweighting can play a vital role in boosting the economic and environmental efficiency of consumer product packaging. consider these examples delivering more beverages with less packaging is possible due to the plastic. for example, just two pounds of plastic can deliver 1000 ounces of a beverage. this is roughly eight gallons.

according to pike research, by 2014, sustainable packaging will cover nearly a third of the packaging market. this equates to approximately a 170billion industry. if compared this figure with 2009, this growth is major. in 2009, sustainable packaging had just a 21 market share. the fastest expanding area with regard to the material will be plastics, the material that supplement producers rely on to house their products. plastic, along with paper, which is also carefully embraced in the natural products business, will have the biggest market share in the packaging field.

the canadian plastics industry association cpia is seeing a quite positive picture about the situation of plastics recycling in canada these days. two reports show that canadians have a good access to recycling for plastics packaging. furthermore, canada&rsquos general recycling rates for plastics are rising significantly. in the first report, which was released in february 2012, and conducted by cm consulting, findings indicated a growth in number of canadians have easy access to recycle many different types of plastic packaging.

this may be true as most microwave ovens now feature a &ldquopopcorn&rdquo control button. since the microwave popcorn industry started in the early 1980&rsquos, commercial packaging has been providing bags for it. since then, they have made huge improvements in popcorn packaging sector. while many of these alterations would not be visible to the final consumer, their refinements have saved commercial packaging&rsquos customers&rsquo millions of dollars over the years. it reduced the cost by dramatically minimizing the overall price of a microwave popcorn bag.