Smurfit Kappa and WestRock discuss merger - Coca-Cola, Unilever and GSK call for more aggressive carbon reduction targets - McKinsey on rPET shortages
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Two of the world’s largest?packaging producers, Smurfit Kappa and WestRock, are discussing the key terms of a potential merger to create Smurfit WestRock – a company that would reportedly be worth around $20bn.
McKinsey has laid out three potential approaches to tackling rPET shortages on the US market and meeting increasing demand for recycled content in packaging – increasing supply, ensuring access, and designing for circularity.
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Coca-Cola, Unilever, GSK, and other Corporate Leaders Group (CLG) Europe members are calling upon the European Union to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 90% by 2040 via ten principles, including the phasing out of fossil fuels and an evidence-based approach to carbon removals.
Paptic has raised €23 million in growth financing in preparation for the industrial scale-up of its foam-based manufacturing technology, the expansion of its product portfolio, and its 2030 target for carbon neutrality.
As part of our Finalist Interview series ahead of the Sustainability Awards, we spoke to CEO and founder of Cellulotech Romain Metivet about its ‘green chemistry process’ for paper packaging barriers, nominated in the pre-commercialised Renewables category.
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