Aldi removes pulp trays and plastic punnets - Innovative recyclable PET bottle closure - Iceland aims for mince shelf-life boost with new packs
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Welcome to this week's issue of the Packaging Europe LinkedIn newsletter! As usual, we are here to provide you with a summary of the most important news and updates in packaging from the last week.
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Aldi has removed pulp trays and plastic punnets from various fruit and vegetable lines in hopes of eliminating over 370 tonnes of plastic and packaging yearly across all its stores.
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to Husky Technologies about its PET closure for still water, said to be fully compatible with existing PET recycling streams and nominated in the Pre-Commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category.
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By transitioning into new vacuum packaging across its beef and pork mince range, Iceland Foods plans to increase the products’ shelf life by almost 50% and reduce its own annual plastic consumption by 35 tonnes.
Ahead of this year’s Sustainability Awards, we spoke to finalist Henkel about its entry in the Commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category - an rPET film for blister packaging made from unused PET blisters and trays from household waste.
In April, the European Parliament’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR)?came into effect. This landmark piece of legislation has introduced targets on collection and reuse, crackdowns on empty space, bans on certain types of packaging, and plenty more. In this edition of The Brief, we take an in-depth look at FoodDrinkEurope (FDE)’s ‘Sustainable Packaging Pathway’, which gives advice on how the industry can achieve these goals