Tag: plastic
Smarties moves all pack formats into recyclable paper
Confectionery brand Smarties will be packaged in paper-based materials and moving away from plastic. The Nestlé-owned brand will switch 90% of its products, as 10% is already packed in paper packaging. Nestlé added that the move will remove around 250 million plastic packs sold worldwide every year. Sharing bags, multipacks and large hexatube formats will…
Mars Food and Amcor to launch recyclable microwavable rice pouch
Mars Food is to start using recyclable mono-polypropylene plastic (PP) for its microwavable rice pouches in 2021. Working with Amcor, the project will bring to market the industry’s first food-safe, mono-material microwavable rice pouch. Launching with an initial pilot in the first half of 2021, the business has ambitions to further scale the technology across…
Unilever hails new technology to recycle sachets
Unilever has developed ‘a groundbreaking new technology’ that will enable the food industry to recycle used multi-layer sachets. Billions of plastic sachets are thrown away globally every year yet only 14% of all plastic packaging is currently recycled, Unilever said. Its new technology, called the CreaSolv Process, will aim to address this by converting used…
Schoeller Allibert debuts upgraded returnable transit packaging
Schoeller Allibert has launched a new and upgraded version of its Maxinest container for the food processing and grocery retail markets. Jon Walkington, retail and system integrator sales director at Schoeller Allibert UK, commented: “Maxinest Evo represents the evolution of the original Maxinest range of products which, after facilitating hundreds of millions of journeys since their…
Unilever updates market on plastic reduction
Consumer goods giant Unilever has stepped up its strategy to incorporate more recycled plastic, as well as reducing its use of the material. The company said that one year on from its pledge to halve its use of virgin plastic by 2025, it has increased its use of post-consumer recycled plastic (PCR) to around 75,000…
Hong Kong Startup Launches Plastic Bag that Dissolves in Hot Water
A Hong Kong start-up company has launched an eco-friendly plastic bag dubbed “Invisible Bag” which can easily dissolve in hot water (above 80 degrees Celsius). More importantly, its ingredients are non-toxic and will not cause harm to the environment. It started by Devana Ng and her French husband Flavien Chaussegros, who are passionate about trail running.…
New Technology for Food Wrappers Based on Extract from Algae
A Chinese research team based in Qingdao, Shandong province, is developing a new technology for food packaging that is expected to be ecologically friendly and pose no threat to people’s health. Xu Jiachao, a professor at the College of Food Science and Engineering at Ocean University of China, led the research team. The team used…
