A new white paper from industrial standards organization Underwriters Laboratories spells out principles and definitions for the use of industrial scrap. The report, Interpreting Pre-Consumer Recycled Content Claims, provides definitions
An environmental activist group has sued the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for failing to ban or restrict the use of bisphenol-A (BPA). The Natural Resources Defense Council, based in
A seven-year battle in Australia over purple cat food packaging has culminated in a truce between Mars Inc. and Nestlé. Under an agreement reached by the two pet food giants,
A new mobile software app that allows both packagers and consumers to attach digital information to an ordinary bar code is being used by PepsiCo and other food and beverage
MillerCoors is the latest from from among a number of packaged goods manufacturers to release its sustainability report that include results, strategies and tactics for its packaging. In
In an apparent move to focus its business on metal packaging, Ball Corp. has sold its plastics packaging business to Amcor Ltd. for $280 million.The sale of Ball’s Plastics
Reducing the number of stock-keeping units (SKUs) is a popular strategy for many retailers but is liable to backfire with consumers, according to new research from Nielsen. As part of
MOM's Organic Market, a homegrown organic grocery chain in the Washington/Baltimore metro area founded in 1987, is launching a new environmental company-wide initiative: Battle the Bottle. Battle the Bottle
Migration of the controversial plastics additive bisphenol-A (BPA) from cans into food “is very low and poses no health or safety concerns to the general population,” according to a
Demand for U.S. foodservice packaging is forecast to climb 2.3% per year to nearly $8 billion in 2014, according to a new study from The Freedonia Group, Foodservice Packaging: Bulk &
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