April 2024

Until now, the chocolate industry was one of the worst offenders for packaging recyclability. For 18 months, Cox & Co has been working towards producing a paper flow wrap to replace its compostable plastic packaging. Working closely with a paper manufacturer in Sweden, it has now created the first ever 100% paper flow wrapped chocolate bar.

Offering a 12-month minimum shelf life, Cox & Co’s innovative new paper flow wrap solution is a huge step in the right direction to reducing the huge amount of chocolate packaging waste that currently ends up in landfill.

A trade association is calling on melatonin makers to follow new guidelines on labeling and packaging for their products amid a rise in emergency room visits and calls to poison centers for accidental ingestion of melatonin by children.

Pregis LLC, a Chicago-based developer of protective packaging, has unveiled a foam packaging product supported by certified-circular polyethylene (PE) resins through a collaboration with Irving, Texas-based ExxonMobil Corp.

Klöckner Pentaplast (kp) launched the first food packaging trays comprising 100% recycled PET (rPET) deriving exclusively from trays.

Until now, food packaging trays have been manufactured using ever-increasing proportions of recovered PET material; however, the newly launched kp tray is the first to be composed entirely of recycled tray material, said the company. This milestone is the result of the kp’s Tray2Tray initiative, which aims to rewrite the PET recycling rules.

Syensqo and TOMRA, a leading provider of sensor-based sorting technology and solutions for the circular economy, have joined forces to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of separating and sorting multi-component plastic structures in which polyvinylidene chloride (PVDC) serves as a barrier layer.  

Finding the right amount of packaging to ship an item can be challenging — and at Amazon, an ever-changing catalog of hundreds of millions of products makes it an ongoing challenge. In addition, Amazon’s scale also means it is impossible to solve this challenge using manual inspection to choose packaging for each and every item. For the same reason, general packaging rules and run-of-the-mill logic just won’t cut it. What’s required is a cutting-edge-smart automated mechanism that can adapt on the fly to changing circumstances.