Plastic Packaging

The red packaging of one of Australia’s best-known confectionary brands is changing in a big way, with the people behind the change labelling it the most “important” switch ever.

Allen’s has always been easy to spot in the supermarket aisle due to its bold colour and fun characters.

But now Nestle, who own the brand, is giving the party favourites a makeover.

The packaging will now be matte, and in the process, will reduce the amount of plastic the brand uses.

Rihanna dropped another new product, this time under the Fenty Skin umbrella. The new Hydrating Body Milk joins the Fenty Skin Butt Drop family. 
 
This body cream comes in earth-conscious packaging, consisting of a recyclable glass bottle, a pump made from 50% PCR material, and a recyclable outer box made from FSC material.
 
The Butta Drop Hydrating Body Milk has a lightweight, milky texture that quickly absorbs into the skin.
 

 Emerald Packaging, Inc., a packaging company for produce in the U.S., collaborated with D'Arrigo California, a grower, packer and shipper of fresh produce that ships under the Andy Boy label, to develop a post-consumer recycled (PCR) bag for its romaine hearts products. The bag will be available in all grocers that carry Andy Boy romaine hearts across North America.

Greif, renowned for its customer-centric approach to packaging, announces the development of custom-made containers for the safe storage and transportation of AdBlue, also known as diesel exhaust fluid. Scheduled for production in the UK this summer, the innovative multilayer CoEx AdBlue Jerrycans cater to individual customer needs.

Enhanced Design for Efficiency

The popular French sugar brand, Daddy Sugar, has switched from its previous plastic container to a fully recyclable Sonoco cardboard container with a PP sprinkler.

Aiming to reduce its packaging's carbon footprint, Cristalco redesigned its 500g Daddy Sugar icing sugar sprinkler container. The original design featured a polyethylene (PEHD) body, an oriented polystyrene (OPS) sleeve, and a polypropylene (PP) lid, making it a prime candidate for an eco-friendly revamp.

• Nestlé announced Friday that by June it will begin using a new recyclable shrink sleeve label on its line of seven ready-to-drink Nesquik flavored milk products. The company says the cap, bottle and sleeve can all be recycled together in the U.S.
• The crystallized PET sleeves were designed with “light-blocking print technology” to preserve shelf life – an important feature for protecting these drinks, whose taste, color and vitamin levels can be susceptible to being impacted by light, the company said.

The meeting of the ministers, held in Sydney on 21 June, considered the growing challenge of soft plastics, and industry’s slow progress to re-establish in-store collection since the collapse of the REDcycle scheme. 

Ministers discussed progress on the Commonwealth’s new National Circular Economy Framework, due to be finalised by December 2024, and which will drive a faster transition to a circular economy and ensure efficient use of key resources and materials in Australia.

Pact Collective and Eastman today announce they have qualified the use of clean, multicolor PET waste from Pact members and consumers as feedstock for Eastman’s methanolysis technology. This process addresses the challenge of multicolored PET received at material recovery facilities (MRF), which ​in some instances is​ unlikely to be mechanically recycled due to color variations. Eastman’s methanolysis process enables the upcycling of this material into Eastman Renew materials — high-quality copolyesters and PET for the beauty industry that offer a quality on par with virgin materials.