Aldi launches flat recycled PET wine bottles
ALDI has launched what it says is the UK's first supermarket own-brand flat recycled PET wine bottles.
The retailer's Chapter & Verse Shiraz and Chapter...
Celebration confirms takeaway clamshells and trays are now PFAS-free
CELEBRATION Packaging has confirmed that its range of white bagasse takeaway clamshells, dinnerware and chip trays are TÜV Home Compostable certified and are SGS...
Online resource educates youngsters on plastics recycling and polymers
THE British Plastics Federation (BPF), in conjunction with PlasticsEurope and RECOUP, has launched an online recycling resource kit designed to educate students about recycling plastics...
Just Eat doubles down on natural polymer packaging with Austrian rollout of Morro
AUSTRIAN food ordering platform, Lieferando, is introducing delivery boxes with Xampla's Morro coating to the country for the first time.
Suitable for a wide range...
Tenth PRS Europe event ‘felt like a real turning point for the industry’
ORGANISERS of the Plastics Recycling Show Europe have revealed the tenth edition of the show attracted over 11,500 attendees in Amsterdam earlier this month.
Visitors...
Lockdown drives spike in aluminium packaging recycling rates
NEW figures released by the Environment Agency showed that 17,066 tonnes of aluminium packaging were collected for recycling in May – an increase of...
UPM Raflatac launches ‘groundbreaking’ new label material
UPM Raflatac has announced the launch of its New Wave paper label material, which is compatible with recycling.
The firm revealed it is the first...
Plastic straws to be removed from Sainsbury’s own brand juice cartons
SAINSBURY'S is to remove plastic straws from its own brand range of lunchbox juice cartons in place of paper straws.
The supermarket said that the...
McDonald’s to change ‘famous’ plastic McFlurry spoons to paper
MCDONALD'S is to roll out McFlurry spoons made from a sustainable, paper-based material.
It comes as the fast food chain replaces all its plastic cutlery...
RECOUP conference explores challenges and opportunities around plastic circularity
THE challenges and opportunities around plastic circularity were high on the agenda at the recent RECOUP Conference.
Opening the event, Jeremy Blake of PackUK described...
