Food & Drink

Find out the latest food and drink news from the packaging industry

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Arla to bin use-by dates in waste cut bid

ARLA Foods is to remove use-by dates from its branded fresh milk and yoghurts and replace them with best before dates only
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DS Smith targets cutting coffee cup waste with new scheme

DS Smith has launched a coffee cup drop box scheme which could see ‘hundreds of millions’ of cups recycled each year
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Plastic-free wine bottle packaging solution unveiled

MACFARLANE Packaging is launching a plastic-free packaging system that will allow retailers to send wine bottles through the post
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Cadbury removes words from new Dairy Milk packaging

CADBURY has unveiled a limited-edition Dairy Milk chocolate bar which will feature no words on the packaging
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Story of first distillery told in whisky distillers’ new packaging design

THE Isle of Arran Distillery has unveiled a new logo, bottle and packaging design for their core range of whiskies which pays homage to the company's first distillery

New survey finds Scots overwhelmingly in favour of imminent deposit return scheme

FOUR in five people in Scotland back the introduction of a deposit return scheme (DRS), according to a recent YouGov survey
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Highland Spring makes Solheim Cup plastic bottle pledge

HIGHLAND Spring Group has revealed that all plastic bottles collected at The 2019 Solheim Cup will be recycled back into other bottles
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Leading bodies back calls urging exclusion of glass in Deposit Return Scheme

BRITISH Glass has released an open letter raising its concerns over the potential inclusion of glass in the impending Scottish Deposit Return Scheme (DRS), which will see a refundable 20p deposit imposed on plastic bottles, cans and potentially glass bottles
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Iced coffee brand opts for cans for the first time

IN a departure from the brand's usual cardboard cartons, Jimmy’s Iced Coffee's latest product - Flat White - has been made available in recyclable aluminium cans
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LOVE lends an arm to BrewDog in new packaging design

BREWDOG founder, James Watt, has had his cousin honoured in the packaging design of the firm’s new Rogue Wave vodka