Turns out, recycling symbols on South African packaging mean very little. Despite being marked with recycling branding, a depressing amount of plastic cannot be recycled in South Africa.
Nestlé recently announced that it is a founding partner and investor in TerraCycle's Loop, a new subscription and home delivery service for foods and other products with reusable packaging. The company will now offer Häagen-Dazs in sustainable packaging on Loop.
A Belgian company, Ecover, long-time producer of a range of green cleaning products, has embarked on an ambitious project to reclaim plastic trawled from the sea and create fully sustainable and recyclable plastic bottles....
How will packaging be affected by a future marked by explosive population growth and insufficient resources? At an American symposium recently, SPS 2011, or Sustainable Packaging Symposium, Tony Kingsbury, executive-in-residence, Center for Responsible Business, UC Berkeley, and an executive with Dow Chemical, shared...
Remember the Cola Wars? Get ready for the Bottle Wars. PepsiCo has unveiled a bottle made entirely of plant material, which it says trumps the technology of competitor Coca-Cola and reduces its potential carbon footprint....