Sustainability

A mix of retailers, sole traders and social enterprises have signed up for the Green Street Pioneers Scheme, which offers grants, support and advice on how businesses can proactively champion sustainability in house and with customers, lessening their impact on the planet.

Conscious consumers are making a switch to compostable coffee capsules but brands are struggling to develop an effective eco-friendly lid that complies with all qualitative aspects. TIPA and ATI’s compostable lid, combines between TIPA’s breakthrough high barrier film and ATI’s patent protected system to support consisted flow and enhanced taste experience.

Parkside has partnered with vegan chocolate brand Mummy Meegz to develop a 100 percent home compostable pack for its indulgent Swiss Choccy Balls. 

The vividly colored pink and blue pouches are made with Parkside’s Park2Nature compostable material, meaning the chocolates are both sustainably sourced and packed in TÜV-certified home compostable packaging. The new product launch comes hot on the heels of the successful launch of the brand’s Billie Bars, vegan swap chocolate bars that were also packed in Park2Nature.  

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.  

Accredo Packaging, a member of the API GROUP, has partnered with the Fresh-Lock team at Presto Products to introduce a more sustainable and child-resistant stand-up pouch.

Accredo is engaged in the production of sustainable packaging solutions for the food and consumer products markets.

The partnership is intended to launch a first-of-its-kind flexible stand-up pouch using more than 50% post-consumer recycled (PCR) content suitable for food packaging across the package.