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PET is the largest plastic material recycled in Europe, with the equivalent of more than 60 billion bottles recycled in 2012.

Nearly all consumers buy private label products when grocery shopping, according to a new study of 6,600 consumers conducted by Market Force Information, a worldwide leader in customer intelligence solutions.

Twinkies may be back on store shelves, but they are not the best thing to put in kids' lunchboxes. If your child's lunchbox needs a makeover, follow the Five Cs for tasty and healthy school meals.

The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies, says PMMI’s Operational Excellence Forums (OEFs) are more than one-day meetings. They’re part of a larger strategy PMMI is implementing to help move the processing and packaging industries forward.

You don't have to consume a lot of business news to see transparency as an issue in the food industry. Whether the topic is pink slime in McDonald's burgers, Whole Foods promising to label products with genetically modified ingredients, or IKEA recalling horsemeat-tainted meatballs, the bottom line is that people want to know what they're eating, and they want to be able to see it.

Nimbus-Online, Inc.released a white paper detailing BioNimbus, a new patent-pending technology that shows truthful human reactions to any part of a package while it is moving through a 3D virtual reality space. The ability to zero in on specific parts of something a person is viewing, and measure biological responses, in real time, marks a huge advancement in the science of optical, neural and biometric measurement.

World demand for corrugated boxes is forecast to increase 4.2% per year to 234 billion square meters in 2017, slightly outpacing real (inflation-adjusted) gains in GDP. Factors contributing to rising box demand include growth in industrial activities, particularly the manufacturing sector, which often requires corrugated packaging to protect and transport goods.

Online event registration is now open for America Recycles Day, a national initiative of nonprofit Keep America Beautiful (KAB). This year’s America Recycles Day theme, “I Want To Be Recycled,” will help to educate people about the importance of recycling to our economy and environmental well-being as well as motivate occasional recyclers to become everyday recyclers.

Messe Düsseldorf will participate in PACK EXPO Las Vegas 2013 in order to promote its international trade fair for the packaging industry: interpack PROCESSES AND PACKAGING 2014, to be held from May 8 - 14, 2014 in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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