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Lucozade Ribena Suntory sets 100% sustainable packaging target

LUCOZADE Ribena Suntory has unveiled plans to move to 100% sustainable plastic within a decade
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Sainsbury’s makes packaging pledge

SAINSBURY’S has announced plans to reduce plastic packaging by 50% in its stores by 2025

MPs urge Government for change over single-use packaging regulations

A committee of MPs has called on the UK Government to focus on reducing all forms of single-use packaging, whilst also making alterations to the proposed plastic packaging tax

Scotland’s deposit return scheme to include glass pending consultation period

THE Scottish Government has opened a consultation period lasting until 10 December 2019 on the country's deposit return scheme (DRS)
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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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CuanTec receives backing from Sky for single-use plastic replacement

CUANTEC, a biotech company based in Motherwell and Oban, has secured investment from Sky Ocean Ventures and Scottish Enterprise
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‘Viable and scalable’ plastic-free solutions on display in London

A new feature called PlasticFreeLand is poised to debut at this year's Packaging Innovations London 2019 exhibition

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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Green groups call on Scottish Parliament for ‘radical’ single-use plastic changes

ENVIRONMENTALIST campaigners have called on the Scottish Parliament to ban the use of polystyrene cups and introduce a ‘latte levy’ in a five-point plan submitted on August 30