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An organic dairy was the first food company to pay citizens to return empty containers; now mainstream snack-food companies are climbing on board.

Gaining FDA approval of a cleaning process for recycled polyethylene terephthalate enabled Associated Packaging Technologies to create a dual-ovenable tray for frozen foods. Use with ConAgra brands will divert 8

Calcium carbonate is touted as a tough, earth-friendly material in sustainability circles, and its applications in global packaging are growing.

Seven days is the longest shelf life lobster meat gets, and that’s not long enough for retail distribution.

Annual growth in US bottled water will be less than 1% for the next five years, UK beverage researcher Canadean Ltd. forecasts, though the thirsty Asian market will help the category attain 2.8% growth worldwide this year.

Like Frank Sinatra, Scott Sechler’s mantra is, “I did it my way.” So when a key customer asked him to come up with case-ready packaging for his antibiotic-free, organic chickens, Sechler took pains to find something distinctive and different.

Breathtaking changes in food production are a hallmark of California agriculture. The latest is occurring in the Sacramento Valley, where the owners of California Olive Ranch (COR) have made a $60 million down payment toward an aggressive plan to produce four million tons of olive oil a year, about 5% of US consumption.

Sean O’Connor doesn’t think his company’s sales are coming out of the hides of Aunt Jemima or Bisquick’s Shake ‘n’ Pour. Instead, he sees his aerosoled pancake batter expanding the market.

Tad Pawlowski had a problem with the live lobsters he was shipping to Europe: most of them were dead before they cleared customs.

Closeted for years in boxes and kegs, the beverage bag is emerging in all its glory, thanks to a collaboration between US and Israeli packaging firms.