Recycling - Articles - Page 5

Packaging

How it's made: recycled fiber in Starbucks cups

Rose Shilling

March 20, 2019

Figuring out how to recycle paper into a reusable fiber that is FDA approved to touch food wasn't easy.

Packaging

Reusable containers for pet food, mayo and ice cream

Rose Shilling

March 20, 2019

Are shoppers ready to order cereal, cookies and other dry goods in reusable stainless steel tins, instead of cardboard boxes?

Packaging

Recyclable stand-up pouch offers EVOH barrier

Rose Shilling

March 20, 2019

TC Transcontinental Packaging introduced a 100 percent recyclable, multilayer barrier stand-up pouch.

Packaging

Nestlé Waters sets goal of 25 percent rPET in three years

Increasing recycled plastic packaging is part of broader sustainability plan to reuse water bottles in a circular economy

Rose Shilling

December 10, 2018

Nestlé Waters North America will use 25 percent recycled plastic for packaging in U.S. products by 2021, trying to increase its role in addressing the country’s recycling challenges.

Sustainability

Starbucks, three suppliers recycle 25 million cups

Pilot with WestRock, Sustana and Seda is a sustainability test case

Rose Shilling

November 13, 2018

Starbucks and WestRock completed a pilot to recycle fiber from 25 million coffee cups for new cups.

Recycled paper company Sustana invested in pulping equipment to remove polyethylene liners from the cups and save the fiber, which was mixed into paperboard at WestRock’s mill in Evadale, Texas. Large rolls went to Seda packaging company for printing, cutting and forming.

Packaging

Anheuser-Busch InBev, DS Smith Plastics win reusable packaging award

AB InBev streamlined keg handling, and DS Smith’s recyclable transit container improved efficiency

Rose Shilling

October 9, 2018

Anheuser-Busch InBev and DS Smith Plastics are winners of the 2018 Excellence in Reusable Packaging Award for innovations that reduced CO2 impact.

Food Packaging

Supremia announces eco-friendly cotton bag repurposing initiative

Supremia and Terracycle are collaborating on an initiative to collect and repurpose cotton bags

Casey Laughman

September 17, 2018

Premiums and promotional packaging specialist Supremia has announced that it has hired TerraCycle to collect and repurpose cotton bags that Supremia is no longer using.

Obstacles to water bottle recyclability

Multiple factors, including light-weighting, labels, colorants, can negatively impact recycling.

Debra Schug

April 12, 2017

Lighter-weight bottles might help bottling sustainability efforts, but are they really environmentally friendly?

Green Series

Achieving Zero Waste

Food and beverage manufacturers continue sustainability efforts by minimizing byproducts, composting waste, recycling processing and packaging materials, and conserving energy and water.

Wayne Labs

February 10, 2016

Manufacturers looking to improve their sustainability are wise to remember the three R’s of waste management: Reduce, Reuse and Recycle.

Food Packaging

Food Packaging: UV light and recycled PET bottles

Debra Schug

November 26, 2015

The storage conditions of post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles could affect further recycled PET bottles, according to a recent Plastic Technologies, Inc. research study.