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Founded in germany in 1979, lebensbaum is a pioneer in the production of organic tea, coffee and herbs. The company&39s success has been built on a combination of pure tasting ingredients, ecological foresight and social responsibility.

The assn of postconsumer plastic recyclers apr, the trade association of companies that recycle postconsumer plastics in north america, has issued a new guidance document to deal with the growing issue of fullbody sleeve labels on pet bottles. The sleeve label substrate for pet bottles critical guidance document addresses several key label design issues that affect the removal of the labels in recycling process and quantifies the effects of label residue on pet bottle recycling.

Hormel foods has announced its second set of environmental goals, while also announcing that the company surpassed the water reduction, packaging and solid waste minimization goals of its first set of fiveyear goals, which ended in 2011. Hormel foods improved performance on a number of key metrics, including surpassing the packaging minimization goal reducing packaging by a total of 21.8 million pounds and beating the water reduction goal reducing water consumption by 15 percent.

as the best athletes in the world compete for the gold, a plastic bag battle continues to rage. a londonbased grassroots campaign had hopes that a plastic bag ban at the london 2012 olympics would help earn a gold medal in sustainability. the group, called greener upon thames, launched its campaign in 2010 to ban plastic bags at the london olympics. the campaign was packed by highprofile names, which included richard branson and british fashion designer vivienne westwood.

Black cat vineyard, a small, artisan winemaker in the napa valley, has performed a successful realworld test of a new multipack shipper for its wine bottles. Ach foam technologies launched a new wineloc recycledcontent summer wine shipper in may 2012. The 6pack wine shipper has been received into the market with enthusiasm. During may and june, ach delivered the first 5,500 packs into service. Ach&39s new shipper easily passed three tests, performed at ach foam&39s facility, a thirdparty agency and now a "real world test" via black cat vineyard.

Npulp strawpulp technology uses a chemical process that converts a naturally abundant resource straw into pulp for paper making, a process that reportedly requires less energy and reduces the amount of greenhouse gases produced, according to its manufacturer.

With 79 percent of people worldwide looking for produce grown by environmentally friendly companies, sustainability initiatives are much talked about in the industry. For ready pac foods, sustainability goes beyond environmentally responsible practices to encompass social responsibility and ultimately longterm economic viability. "for decades, ready pac has participated in environmentally friendly business practices such as sending our byproducts for use as animal feed," says tristan simpson, director of marketing at ready pac.

Seaworld parks & entertainment will remove plastic shopping bags at all its theme parks within the next year making it the largest theme park operator to make this commitment. Park gift shops will offer paper bags made from 100 recycled paper or guests can choose to purchase reusable bags. The company said this move will keep an estimated four million plastic bags from entering landfills and the environment each year.

New branding and packaging by london design company carter wong for bio green dairy has helped the middlesex based producer achieve instant market penetration with an extended product range of real fruit yoghurt smoothies and exciting asianinspired lassi yoghurt drinks. One of the joys of living in multicultural britain is the variety of delicious ethnic foods and drink available on the high street.