plastic
Dairy upgrade puts brake on emissions
A UK dairy company has just completed a £1.1 million (€1.3m) upgrade ‘to encourage greener ways of working’. The work was carried out by Clegg Food Projects at Dairy Crest’s site in Derbyshire. A new link building between the milk bottling site and the adjacent factory that makes plastic bottles means there is a reduced […]
Plastics recycling targets ‘overstretched’
BPI Films has warned that increased plastics recycling targets will increase costs and damage existing recovery infrastructure . The claim was made by BPI managing director Andrew Green at the launch of its new £2 million (€2.4m) co-extrusion line. “We have absolutely no issue with stretching recycling targets. Indeed, as the largest recycler of polythene film […]
Prestigious green award for Continuum Recycling
Continuum Recycling – ECO Plastics’ joint venture with Coca-Cola Enterprises (CCE) – has been recognised at the Green Business Awards 2012. Sam Richardson, representing ECO Plastics, and CCE’s Patrick McGuirk accepted the Partnership Award given in recognition of Continuum’s impact on the domestic recycling sector, as well as for the partnership’s ongoing engagement with supply […]
ProPac set for 2013 return
The UK processing and packaging exhibition dedicated entirely to the food and drink sector, Pro2Pac, is set to make its return next March. And, say organisers, it will be the biggest and best yet. The biennial event will be back with a brand new layout that reflects its ‘focus on visitor experience’. “Incorporating a host […]
April 2012
The pressure’s on (HPP, that is) The need for new processing and preservation techniques has never been greater. Campden BRI experts Craig Leadley and Edyta Margas explain. Time to lighten up What does the future hold for plastic milk bottle packaging? James Crick, business development director at Nampak Plastics, reveals all. Good health Vitafoods Europe […]
Coca-Cola’s Olympic recycling effort
Coca-Cola has announced that it has recycled 10.5 million bottles collected from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, returning them to GB shelves as part of new bottles. This has resulted in 42 million bottles, each containing 25 per cent rPET. “The success of this large-scale bottle-to-bottle recycling process is part of Coca-Cola’s commitment […]
Desto destined for success
A new ready meal packaging format is attracting interest from leading supermarkets, thanks to a unique design that offers greater convenience and has environmental credentials, says its UK manufacturer Intelligent Packaging Solutions. The firm has already landed a contract with Tesco for its Desto cup, which is to be used in the retailer’s Tesco’s Piing […]
Firms team up for bacteria-busting packaging
Multi-material packaging firm Linpac Packaging has teamed up with Addmaster to develop a range of trays and films with built-in antimicrobial technology designed to reduce bacteria growth on the outer packaging of fresh meat. Addmaster say its Biomaster antimicrobial technology is a silver-based additive that can be added into any plastic, paper, textile, paint or […]
Recycling ‘second nature’ to 40% of UK adults
More than half (58%) of UK adults say they would be more likely to recycle their used food and drink cartons knowing that they would be recycled into other materials in the UK instead of being shipped abroad for recycling. The Tetra Pak research into consumer attitudes to recycling also found that recycling is now […]
New Faerch Plast facility ‘investment in future’
Færch Plast A/S – a European producer of plastics trays and containers for the food industry – has opened a new manufacturing facility in the north of England. Commissioned in November last year, the new plant has ‘cutting edge’ equipment –including two extruders, six thermoforming machines and the latest robot packing systems – and has […]
‘Greenest ever’ refillable bottle
Plastics packaging firm Petainer has developed what it’s calling its ‘greenest ever’ refillable bottle. The new bottle is manufactured using more than 25 per cent post-consumer ‘one-way’ recycled PET plastic but has the same performance characteristics as a refillable bottle made entirely from virgin material, according to Petainer. "This is a very exciting development,” says […]
Top news for recycling
The Co-operative has reduced the tint in all of its own-brand plastic coloured milk bottle tops, to make it easier for them to be recycled into new bottles. The food retailer sells 202 million bottles of milk every year, and says that, previously, the amount of recycled plastic that could be used to make new […]
Nestle reveals cracking progress on packaging
Nestlé UK & Ireland has announced that its Easter egg packaging is 100 per cent recyclable now that it has replaced rigid plastic with cardboard in its mug eggs. With Easter eggs creating 3,000 tonnes of UK waste each year, the manufacturer says it’s now the first major confectioner to remove plastic packaging from all […]
Innocent tops environmental packaging poll
Packaging professionals have named ‘Innocent’ their most admired brand for its environmental approach to packaging, according to a new survey. Put together by packaging trade show firm easyFairs, the survey questioned 289 packaging professionals, asking them a number of questions – one of which was to name a brand that they really admired for its […]