sustainable packaging

Seas of Change: Redefining Seafood Packaging to Counter Ocean-Bound Plastic and Bolster Aquaculture 

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By Cath Isabedra  As the world's population surges past 7.8 billion, our reliance on the ocean's bounty for sustenance is growing exponentially. Seafood, with its nutritional richness, forms a significant portion of the human diet, particularly in coastal communities worldwide.  However, with the increasing demand for seafood, several challenges have surfaced. These primarily revolve around the packaging of seafood, the rising menace of ocean-bound plastic, and concerns related … [Read more...] about Seas of Change: Redefining Seafood Packaging to Counter Ocean-Bound Plastic and Bolster Aquaculture 

Sustainable packaging for dry pet food: Innovative approaches for paper-based packaging with polymers 

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By: Dr. Bettina Plaumann, Kuraray Europe, Segment Team Paper & Packaging  Various trends and requirements are currently transforming the packaging market: renewable raw materials, reducing the amount of packaging material, cutting CO2 emissions, monolayer packaging, recyclability, repulpability and biodegradability – to name a few.  The overriding and most urgent trend in packaging is sustainability. That has resulted in the development of packaging concepts centred on … [Read more...] about Sustainable packaging for dry pet food: Innovative approaches for paper-based packaging with polymers 

Best-in-class weight achieved by new returnable, resistant PET bottle launched by Sidel for carbonated beverages

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With upcoming European regulations requiring beverage producers to embrace packaging circularity and returnable bottles, Sidel has developed a dedicated PET bottle for carbonated beverages designed for long-standing reuse. In accordance with the European Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation, the focus is on creating a circular economy where returnable bottles are at the forefront. With a target of 25 percent of bottles to be reusable by 2040, there is now increasing demand for returnable … [Read more...] about Best-in-class weight achieved by new returnable, resistant PET bottle launched by Sidel for carbonated beverages