December 2022

Emballator Innovation Center, with the same desire on reducing food waste, got involved in the project during 2021 and have since then worked with migration tests of the label.

“Since it’s ink in the label it’s important that it doesn’t transfer any chemicals to the meat. We had to modify the tests to make it fit the reality, so it was quite tricky”, says Christian Olsson, Material Specialist at Emballator Innovation Center.

The action will come as a relief for producers of plastic goods, according to Pravin Darade. According to the secretary of the environment and climate change department (ECCD), allowing the production of single-use items made of biodegradable materials was already in demand. In 2018, the Maharashtra government outlawed single-use plastic.

Butlers Farmhouse Cheeses is a fourth-generation family cheesemaker based in rural Lancashire. Butlers handmake British hard, blue and soft cheeses with milk from its own herd of cows and goats. Butlers launched an online cheese store in 2020 to provide a one-stop shop for cheese eating and gifting, delivering nationwide, direct from the dairy to your front door.

The challenge set for BoxWay Packaging was to design a new outer box that allowed for inside and outside printing to share messaging with customers that would both inform and build anticipation.

Tetra Pak’s membership starts on January 1.

The decision for Tetra Pak to join Petco was driven by the need for greater collaboration to improve the collection and recycling of LBP in South Africa.

Petco is noted to have a successful record in supporting recycling value chains in South Africa.

Petco will be administering an extended producer responsibility (EPR) scheme to cater for the LBP sector from January 1, in addition to the other EPR schemes already being offered by Petco.

Offering its iconic beverages in reusable packaging and on innovative platforms that eliminate the need for single-use virgin plastic is not new to PepsiCo – it has been an important element of the company's Sustainable Packaging Vision since 2018, when PepsiCo invested over $3.2B to acquire SodaStream, the world's leading reuse platform, and expressed its commitment to a circular economy for plastics by joining the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment.

Everyday thermocol and bubble wraps, in which your favourite crockery or fragile items come packaged in, are non-bio-degradable, and remain in the environment – indestructible – for years, clogging drains and ocean.

Finding an eco-friendly alternative to such materials, two girl students from Hyderabad have made packages from mushrooms. Yes, mushrooms!

Creative agency Hell Yeah! has created a new look squeezy bottle for sustainable condiment brand Rubies in the Rubble’s flagship ketchup product. 

The redesign, which is on shelf now, aims to premiumise the brand, enhance taste appeal and stand out in an incredibly competitive category.

Rubies in the Rubble produces delicious ketchups, mayos and relishes using surplus cosmetically imperfect ingredients, which would otherwise have gone to waste.