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Dunnet Bay Distillery launches new bottle for Holy Grass Vodka

19 Apr 2024
Grania Jain

The new design, which has been created by Pocket Rocket Creative, Holy Grass Vodka is now packaged in a premium glass bottle, sprayed with colour to create a greater stand out on shelf.

The label, which features a fresh font, has been designed to reinforce the hand crafted nature and provenance of the spirit.

The bottle also now includes a QR code linking to the brand story and recommended serve.

Each batch is hand numbered and secured with a recyclable ‘Kelpie Serpent’ seal – said to be found in the Thurso river next to where Holy Grass grows.

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PODS FOR THE PLANET TIPA and ATI craft compostable, bio-based coffee capsules lids

19 Apr 2024
Grania Jain

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.

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Parkside, Mummy Meegz partner again for compostable packaging

19 Apr 2024
Grania Jain

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.  

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Cox & Co Develops First Ever Flow Wrap Chocolate Paper Packaging

19 Apr 2024
Press Packagin…

Until now, the chocolate industry was one of the worst offenders for packaging recyclability. For 18 months, Cox & Co has been working towards producing a paper flow wrap to replace its compostable plastic packaging. Working closely with a paper manufacturer in Sweden, it has now created the first ever 100% paper flow wrapped chocolate bar.

Offering a 12-month minimum shelf life, Cox & Co’s innovative new paper flow wrap solution is a huge step in the right direction to reducing the huge amount of chocolate packaging waste that currently ends up in landfill.

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Klöckner Pentaplast Launches 100% Recycled PET Tray

19 Apr 2024
PC Correspondent

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.

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Syensqo partners with TOMRA to advance the sorting of multilayer PVDC packaging waste

19 Apr 2024
PC Correspondent

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.  

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How pioneering deep learning is reducing Amazon’s packaging waste

18 Apr 2024
PC Correspondent

Finding the right amount of packaging to ship an item can be challenging — and at Amazon, an ever-changing catalog of hundreds of millions of products makes it an ongoing challenge. In addition, Amazon’s scale also means it is impossible to solve this challenge using manual inspection to choose packaging for each and every item. For the same reason, general packaging rules and run-of-the-mill logic just won’t cut it. What’s required is a cutting-edge-smart automated mechanism that can adapt on the fly to changing circumstances.

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