waste
PET recycling initiative
Avery Dennison has collaborated with Viridor and PET UK to help Coca-Cola European Partners (CCEP) reduce waste, costs and the carbon footprint of Smartwater production in the UK.
The big freeze
The countdown to Christmas Day can often be a busy and stressful time. According to research by the Food Standards Agency (FSA), 43 per cent of people feel that buying presents is the main worry, while cooking Christmas dinner comes second, along with family arguments.
AD solves £64m Christmas food waste headache
No food company deliberately creates unnecessary waste. However, the volume of food waste created over the festive period is typically 30 per cent higher than the rest of the year.
Rise in consumer health concerns drives food and beverage trends
There has been a reported 25% increase in vegetarian and a 257% rise in vegan global food and drink product launches between September 2010 to August 2011 and September 2015 to August 2016, according to the Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies (PMMI).
Fowler Welch teams up with FareShare to reduce food waste
Fowler Welch has teamed up with food redistribution charity FareShare to enable more surplus food to be used to provide healthy meals for vulnerable people across the UK.
Round-Up: Processing
Here is your weekly round-up of processing news. Next week’s round-up will focus on Shelf Life news.
Round-Up: Packaging
Here is your weekly round-up of packaging news. Next week’s round-up will focus on processing news.
Simply Waste to reprocess paper cups at ACE UK
Simply Waste Solutions has announced that it will collect and supply used cups to the ACE UK recycling facility.
French export specialists predict healthy 2017 for British brands
Export experts at Sutralis in France have categorised the major trends for British food and drink brands that wish to enter the French market in 2017.
Business news, Food safety, Ingredients, New products, Packaging, Sustainability
World Biogas Association launches
The World Biogas Association (WBA) has been launched at the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 22 in Marrakesh, Morocco.
Buffet waste
I am travelling for work this week – first Paris, France and then Helsinki, Finland – so I’ve got a few hotel buffet breakfasts on the menu. As such, comments from celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, on the ‘food waste nightmare’ of the hotel breakfast buffet, have come at a fitting time.
Mintel announces global trends for 2017
Mintel has announced the six key trends set to impact the global food and drink market, highlighting ingredient and food and drink product trends set to make an impact over the coming year.
Food safety, Ingredients, Packaging, Regulatory, Sustainability
Smashing pumpkins
Yesterday, we celebrated Halloween – which is now Britain’s third biggest commercial holiday after Christmas and Easter, and the country’s second biggest party night after New Year’s Eve.
Latest sorting machine
Tomra Sorting Food has unveiled its new sorter for the vegetable, fresh cut and potato processing industries, the Tomra 5B.