Sustainability

British sustainable packaging firm Frugalpac have produced a commemorative paper wine bottle to mark His Royal Highness King Charles III and Her Royal Highness His HxxQueen Camilla’s state visit to Bordeaux on Friday September 22.

The special paper Frugal Bottle is made from 94% recycled cardboard, has a carbon footprint six times lower than a glass bottle is five times lighter and can be recycled again.

The pack, which uses Parkside’s groundbreaking Park2Nature™ material, can be disposed of in regular domestic compost heaps, where it will break down into water, carbon dioxide, and biomass in under 26 weeks. It can also be sent for industrial composting, where it will decompose within 12 weeks.

The Estée Lauder Companies UK & Ireland (ELC) has announced its support of an innovative woodland platform project in the South Downs National Park, as part of a five-year commitment to nature restoration across the UK's National Parks.
 

By collaborating closely with industry stakeholders along the value chain, Mondi has tackled the siliconised and coated paper waste produced at its release liner plants in Jülich, Germany, and Heerlen, Netherlands. It is now repulped and valorised as secondary raw material in a range of other applications.

The end-to-end packaging system, known as TopClip, is being used by pioneering Belgian craft brewer BeerSelect to aid in their sustainability goals.

The packaging company also provided the brewer with an automated machine system to efficiently package the beer in-house.

After examining the brewer’s operations, Smurfit Kappa installed its mid-speed TopClip machine. The device can handle 30,000 cans per hour and has proven effective with a number of small and medium sized drinks companies.

As part of efforts to enhance kerbside recycling rates across the region, households are being urged to recycle different types of metal packaging.

These include food and drink cans, aluminium foil and trays, empty aerosols, and metal screw tops.

The 'MetalMatters' programme, led by the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro), will utilise targeted social media posts and bus advertisements to highlight the extensive benefits of recycling metal packaging.

GING is a cloud-based software platform which enables users to store and share data on packaging along their supply chains in a quick, user-friendly and secure way. It is built around the free-to-use Open 3P data standard for the packaging sector, launched earlier this year, and both have been developed with a consortium of industry partners, input from over 100 packaging sector stakeholders, and funding from UK Research & Innovation’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK.

The Pregis film structure, manufactured with Nova Chemical’s SYNDIGO™ rPE-0860-FC recycled polyethylene resin, delivers on the market need for high-quality, food-safe recycled content solutions without compromising on performance. This solution goes beyond the FDA-LNO (letter of non-objection) to provide packaging converters, and consumer packaged goods companies, with a mechanically recycled content film that offers unmatched safety and quality.