January 2024

Sainsbury’s will be the first UK retailer to roll out cardboard punnets for all mushrooms across all stores.

The change will have rolled out to all 13 own-brand lines including top sellers such as whole baby button, closed cup, organic and chestnut mushrooms by the end of January.

Customers can currently purchase bySainsbury’s and SO Organic mushrooms in cardboard punnets in all stores and online, and the change will affect Taste the Difference lines by the end of January.

Manufactured by Novolex brand Waddington North America, the new products include various sizes of dessert cups, tamper-evident containers, cake containers and bakery clamshells, including:

Alongside a jam-packed schedule of speeches and seminars, delegates will have the opportunity to explore the very latest packaging innovations. The two-day event will also feature a ‘Sustainability Trail’, which aims to highlight the sector’s most inspiring suppliers operating at the cutting-edge of eco innovation.

Savvy Pair, an Anglo-Spanish wine start-up, has received a gold medal for design at the Harpers Design Awards for their innovative Frugal Bottle. Co-founders Richard Leaver and Domingo Miguel have curated a selection of wines from Spain, utilizing eco-friendly packaging options like the paper Frugal Bottle, lightweight glass bottles, bag-in-box, and cans to minimize the carbon footprint.

• Labels will be removed from Sprite and Sprite Zero 500ml rPET bottles as part of a limited trial designed to simplify the recycling process, and reduce use of packaging materials
• Consumers will find the new “label-less” bottles in eight Tesco Express Stores in Brighton and Hove, Bristol, London, and Manchester from January to March 2024
• Labels on 500ml Sprite and Sprite Zero bottles will be replaced with an embossed logo on the front of the pack and laser-engraved product information on the back

The pilot will see labels temporarily