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How Unilever thinks about packaging sustainability

30 Oct 2024
Vasu Goyal

By 2025, Unilever aspires to reach 25% recycled plastic in its packaging portfolio, and to collect and process more packaging than it sells. It is still on track to meet these targets, according to Costa; as of 2023, it reported that 22% of Unilever packaging contained recycled plastic, and that 61% of its product packaging was collected and processed at end-of-life.

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Burger King India rings in Diwali with AI-powered campaign #BurgerKingSwaadKaPatakha

30 Oct 2024
PC Correspondent

Burger King India has decided to let guests create their own personalized patakha packaging for its iconic flavour patakhas. Burger King India has incorporated advance AI solutions and has given it in the hands of our guests.

To celebrate these taste bombs and flavour explosions, Burger King this Diwali is launching #BurgerKingSwaadKaPatakha, the first-of-its-kind activity, promising to bring creativity and fun this festive season while giving a Free Whopper. 

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European container glass industry calls for rapid access to low carbon energy infrastructure

30 Oct 2024
PC Correspondent

In a report published this week it also requests for customers to keep choosing and recycling glass packaging.

The report, One Destination, Multiple Pathways: How the European Container Glass Industry is Decarbonising Glassmaking, details the steps being taken to decarbonise glass manufacturing.

It states a crucial step to reach the industry's net zero goal by 2050 is rapid access to affordable, low-carbon energy.

Currently, 80% of the glass container industry's direct carbon emissions result from the combustion of natural gas.

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Dow and Procter & Gamble to develop a new proprietary recycling technology targeting hard-to-recycle plastic waste

29 Oct 2024
PC Correspondent
  • Vision is to recover polyethylene from hard-to-recycle waste for reuse in consumer packaging.
  • Partnership brings together both companies’ intellectual property to create a novel process with low greenhouse gas emissions footprint.

To create the new technology, the companies will combine their patented technologies and know-how in the dissolution process.

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Avocado tree waste used to make sustainable food packaging

29 Oct 2024
PC Correspondent

Although plastic has allowed for convenient, hygienic food packaging, plastic waste continues to be a major problem for the environment. To make food packaging more sustainable, researchers at the University of Córdoba and the University of Girona in Spain turned to avocado pruning residue — the branches and leaves removed from avocado trees annually.

This residue is a source of biomass, the term given to plant-based materials not consumed as food. Spain’s southern region of Andalucía is ripe with fruit trees, particularly avocado.

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Aldi removes pulp trays and punnets from fruit and veg packaging

29 Oct 2024
PC Correspondent

Additionally, Aldi is removing pulp trays from its Nature's Pick Mango twin pack and Avocado twin pack, to reduce the amount of packaging. These changes could see the UK's fourth-largest supermarket remove over 370 tonnes of plastic and packaging per year if rolled out across all stores.

These are just some of the latest changes in the supermarket's continuing efforts to reduce its environmental impact and develop alternative packaging for its products.

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UPM Specialty Papers and Michelman Introduce a New Generation of Structures for High Performance, Recyclable Paper Packaging

26 Oct 2024
PC Correspondent

“UPM's papers provide a perfect foundation for our water-based barrier and heat seal coatings. Working closely with them for many years has allowed our combined team to increase the performance threshold of fiber-based substrates while maintaining recyclability. These new solutions will allow the market to accelerate its transition to more sustainable packaging.”

—Thierry Van Migem, Sales Director, EMEA, Michelman

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