Here is your weekly round-up of packaging news. Next week’s round-up will focus on processing news. To submit an item for inclusion, please contact Carly Wood at [email protected].

• The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) UK has welcomed the latest figures on carton recycling in the EU, showing that 44% of beverage cartons were recycled in 2015, continuing an unbroken, 10-year upward trend.
• Europe needs to take specific measures to formalise the informal recycling of aluminum beverage cans, according to a study by Boku University.
• Market research company Euromonitor International has released new analysis on the potential impact of brexit on industries and consumers.
• Papermaker James Cropper has launched its first food contact approved range of papers, Dolcelicious.
• Mitie is taking part in WRAP’s Recycle Week (12-18 September), in partnership with eight clients.
• The majority of UK consumers are open to in-pack cooking with Bemis OvenRite, finds a recent consumer study.
• Coconut flavoured rum brand Malibu has released its new ‘connected’ bottles.
• A company developing a food freshness solution is being supported in its research and development work by the Institute of Food Science and Innovation at the University of Chester, UK.
• The EU food and beverage glass packaging industry has turned into a very stable business compared to other packaging materials, with no growth and, perhaps surprisingly, still relatively high margins, finds Rabobank.