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Alongside a jam-packed schedule of speeches and seminars, delegates will have the opportunity to explore the very latest packaging innovations. The two-day event will also feature a ‘Sustainability Trail’, which aims to highlight the sector’s most inspiring suppliers operating at the cutting-edge of eco innovation.

The programme is being organised by Shishoi Oshom - Entrepreneurship Task Force (ETF)- Cell Wokha in collaboration with Tea Board India, Regional Office Golaghat, Assam and Indian Institute of Packaging, Kolkata Centre.

Reducing and recycling plastic packaging will no longer be a matter of voluntary or co-regulatory action.

The REDcycle collapse has highlighted the ineffectiveness of current arrangements and exposed the fact that other single use plastic packaging recovery rates are embarrassingly low and will miss agreed targets.

A new world class product stewardship scheme is now proposed to be in place by 2025.This will bring in new packaging rules to make manufacturers and retailers responsible for designing, reducing, collecting, and recovering their packaging.

Consumers can jump from the new Honey-Comb box (hitting shelves late this month) into the new AR experience via QR code. The code is clearly displayed on the back of the packaging, and once scanned with a smartphone camera, the AR experience includes fun activities and motivational videos from Terry, encouraging tweens to “Bee Big, Bee Kind and Bee Amazing.”

Honey-Comb Experiences include:

Pickler’s software comes at a crucial time for the packaging industry. With an increasing trend of conscious consumerism and new EU legislation such as the Green Claims Directive and Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSDR), packaging producers, distributors, and retailers are required to transparently showcase the impact of complete packaging portfolios.

Companies in all industries seek to increase the likelihood of their products being purchased by consumers. Brand reliability and trust can take time to establish, beyond the issue of enticing consumers to take a chance on the product in the first place. Packaging structure and design are the initial contact between product and consumer and can play a large role in the ultimate choice of a consumer to put a product in their cart.

The ASPF brings together a diverse group of global stakeholders to engage with regulators and governments around the world to encourage the adoption of a holistic and harmonized approach to food packaging regulation, according to a news release. The group's goal is to achieve environmental sustainability without compromising on food safety and public health and without increasing the environmental footprint of the food supply chain, the release said.

Sally Hansen, a Coty Brand, has unveiled the new limited-edition Sally Hansen x Sesame Street Collection—featuring 10 Sally Hansen Insta-Dri shades and textures inspired by characters like Oscar the Grouch, Big Bird, Elmo and more.
 
The collection also features Sally Hansen Salon Effects Perfect Manicure ready-to-wear nails in an oval shape, showcasing a playful hint of characters like Ernie’s rubber ducky and Cookie Monster’s googly eyes.
 

The chief guest, adviser Agriculture, Government of Nagaland, Mhathung Yanthan stressed on the paramount importance of packaging for Nagaland’s Food and Handicraft sectors.

The initiative was aimed at educating participants about the latest trends and technological advancements in food packaging, emphasizing the significance of innovative packaging for enhancing export potential.

The scale and urgency of the current climate crisis can feel, at times, both completely and utterly overwhelming and extremely frightening. And although our individual, day-to-day choices are important when it comes to tackling the ongoing climate breakdown, experts frequently say that if we’re going to create a truly sustainable future, change is largely in the hands of politicians, policymakers and big businesses.