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A newly updated game app for plastics recycling now rewards players with real world products for virtual plastics recycling. Plastics make it possible, the creator of the popular bin it app, has teamed up with earth911, host of the nation&39s largest recycling directory, and recyclebank, the company that rewards people&39s everyday green activities with discounts and deals from local and national businesses, to encourage consumers to recycle more.

It&39s estimated that the average consumer spends less than a second scanning shelves, and in that time, will make a decision on whether or not to purchase any given product. If you are that product&39s manufacturer, you want to make sure that in that critical time frame, the consumer will be drawn to your merchandise, have a desire to pick it up, inspect it, and make a decision to buy it.

Both companies say they will dramatically reduce the weight of packaging they use through new design, thin walling, use of concentrated products and reuse of materials. In some cases, they will also switch materials. "we will make it easier for consumers to recycle our packaging by using materials that best fit the endoflife treatment facilities available in their countries," unilever said in a statement released to the press. Unilever also said it plans to eliminate use of polyvinyl chloride pvc by 2012 where technical solutions exist.

Brazil &ndash on the aftermath of rio20, the un sustainability conference organized in rio de janeiro, the brazilian association of pet industry abipet release the updated data on pet recycling in the country. In 2011, brazil gave the proper destination to 294 thousand tons of postconsumer pet packages.

Environment was one of the highlights of elipso&rsquos last annual general meeting. Elipso is the organisation representing plastic and flexible packaging manufacturers in france. Actually, since 2008 elipso has aligned its strategy and actions on the laws arising from the grenelle environmental consultation. First of all, prevention, particularly through weight reduction, is the primary criterion for environmental efficiency. As for recycling, it is a major orientation for elipso&rsquos policy.

The company reported pdf a pretax profit of £110.2m for the year to april 2012 and a 12 revenue growth to £1,969.4m. Miles roberts, group chief executive, said &ldquo201112 has been a pivotal year for ds smith. Building on the success of the previous year we further improved the operational and financial performance of the business, with substantial improvements in revenue, growth, profitability, and returns on capital.

What are pharmaceutical, medical device, and healthcare manufacturers looking for from packaging materialscomponents suppliers &ldquoin a word, innovation,&rdquo says richard adams, head of pack graphic design at glaxosmithkline in raleighdurham, nc. He elaborates, &ldquoinnovative materials and packaging solutions to meet the diversification efforts within our company. The variety of products and requirements of those products coupled with market regulatory constraints forces pharmaceutical packaging to be more creative in a rapidly evolving space.

Lebensbaum, a company based in germany, is a producer of organic tea, coffee, and herbs. It has built its success through puretasting ingredients, social responsibility, and ecological foresight. Introducing packaging materials based on renewable resources is part of the company&rsquos sustainability strategy. One such example is the company&rsquos recent decision to use compostable cellulosebased natureflex&trade nvr material from innovia films.

tucked away in the hills above verona, italy, is a familyowned commercial bakery called forno bonomi that dates back to 1850. ladyfingers, the eggbased sweet biscuits that are the foundation of that eversopopular desert known as tiramisu, are one of bonomi&rsquos specialties. and while the ingredients used to produce these delicacies today haven&rsquot changed a whole lot since the 1850s, the highspeed packaging systems recently installed by renato bonomi and his two brothers could hardly have been imagined by their 19th century ancestors.