packaging Archives - Plastic Generation

Packaging conference 2020 to address plastic alternatives

January 20, 2020

Austin Texas, February 3rd - 5th This year's Packaging Conference which takes place in the US has several organisations and speakers on the panel that will be addressing sustainability, packaging alternativ...

Coca-Cols to use new KeelClip packaging across Europe

Coca-Cola replaces plastic wrap with new KeelClip cardboard packaging

Sarah Bedwell

November 25, 2019

Business, Packaging

Global drinks manufacturer, Coca-Cola is launching a new paperboard packaging solution across Europe. As the brand looks to eliminate plastic and excess packaging in its supply chain, it has recently announce...

Premium Tea Bags Leaking Billions Of Particles

Juan Askew

September 27, 2019

Environment, Packaging

Some premium tea bags might be leaving billions of microscopic plastic particles in your cup, new research suggests. Canadian researchers found that some plastic tea bags shed high levels of microplastics into...

Hasbro games to remove plastic packaging by 2022

Sarah Bedwell

August 21, 2019

Business, Packaging

US toy company, Hasbro, will eliminate plastic across its product portfolio by 2022. The major manufacturer of plastic action toys and board games, Hasbro is giving plastic packaging the boot. Plans to star...

Celebrating International Women’s Day

Sarah Bedwell

March 8, 2019

Business

Shining a spotlight on female led businesses that are making a difference to the plastic waste movement With today being International Women's Day we wanted to highlight some organisations with females at t...

IBM: VolCat

Andrew Durkin

March 7, 2019

Business, Packaging, Tech

IBM researchers have come up with a way to chemically separate plastic molecules. VolCat creates a residue that can be re-used to create plastic products. The Big Blue claims that its Volatile Catalyst (Vol...

Experts unite at Imperial College London to combat plastic pollution

Dan Walsh

February 27, 2019

Business, Packaging

Earlier this month, students, scientists, sustainability experts and big brands came together at Imperial College London to discover new ways to tackle the ever increasing issue of plastic pollution. The Pl...

The Big Plastics Debate: campaigners to debate plastics industry leaders

Dan Walsh

February 27, 2019

Business, Packaging

Tonight in Birmingham (Wednesday 27th February), UK, environmental campaigners A Plastic Planet will go head-to-head with leading figures from the plastics industry during a major debate. The Big Plastics D...

Tassimo and L’OR take steps to recycle coffee pods

Sarah Bedwell

February 18, 2019

Business, Environment, Next Generation, Packaging

Partnership with TerraCycle raises money for charities while recycling harmful plastic pods. TerraCycle has partnered with Tassimo and L'OR to create a free recycling programme for Tassimo T DISCs, outer p...

Win £1million by creating an alternative to single-use plastic

Sarah Bedwell

February 11, 2019

Business, Ocean, Packaging

A competition launched by Sky Ocean Ventures and National Geographic offers a massive financial prize to anyone able to find ways to save the oceans from plastic pollution. The prize for the best suggestion...

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