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Tupperware designed and produced a one-of-a-kind reusable packaging container option for Tim Hortons – one of Loop’s brand partners.

Alaska Airlines’ inflight water service is getting a planet-friendly upgrade. The airline is trading plastic water bottles for Boxed Water Is Better brand's 92% plant-based cartons and swapping out plastic cups with recyclable paper cups for water service. This will save an estimated 1.8 million pounds of single-use plastics from flights over the next year.

Sustainability has become a necessary part of plant design and construction projects. The next step is leveraging your automation capabilities to help meet—and exceed—sustainability goals

Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics, a business unit of Dow, and HP Indigo, Reifenhäuser, Cadel Deinking and Karlville, have debuted a first-of-its-kind pouch-to-pouch mechanical recycling concept.  

GOUSTO, a U.K.-based subscription meal kit company, is trialing a “world-first” edible packaging solution to help improve the environmental credentials in its recipe boxes. 

Kellogg’s is trialing fully recyclable packaging for its boxes of Corn Flakes, replacing the plastic liner for paper. The food giant has said it would prefer plastic liners to be accepted in curbside recycling, but the trial of the paper alternative in a small number of Tesco stores from January “ensures we have an alternative."

Shiru's patent-pending discovery platform combines ML and biofermentation to produce plant-based alternatives to eggs, meat, dairy and gelatin—using a fraction of the land, water and energy of their animal alternatives.

Rather than waste meat byproducts and misshapen produce, “ugly” foods are finding a home as nutrient-rich ingredients in pet food.