Club Zero Refillable Milk is designed to cut the carbon footprint of Abel & Cole’s single-use milk bottles in half, with Abel & Cole estimating a saving of up to 450,000 single-use plastic milk bottles annually.
Sun Chemical is thinking about sustainability and circularity in all of its product development activities, including in its solutions for the narrow web, tag and label market.
Most packaging on shelf these days was designed with the primary purpose to engage with the consumer, protect the contents within and tell a strong brand story. What recyclable features it may include are not always by design and they certainly are not thought through.
An initiative from three of America's biggest beverage companies, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Keurig Dr. Pepper, aims to improve the recycling and processing of plastic bottles.
CarbonLITE, a PET bottle-to-bottle recycling leader, plans to build a new plant in Pennsylvania. The facility will enable the company to increase the number of post-consumer PET beverage bottles it recycles annually by 50 percent, to more than 6 billion.
Henkel is partnering with Waste Free Oceans to remove plastic waste from oceans and rivers, and transform it into bottles for its Lovables laundry brand. The collaboration will run for at least three years. Together, the partners aim to remove enough plastic from rivers, lakes, seas and oceans to produce 100 metric tons of usable recycled material each year.
