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As companies realize the cost and environmental savings from reimagining how they package and ship their products, it seems that the days of wasteful packaging are drawing to a close. From using only the most minimal packaging to bio-based materials replacing plastics and other non-renewable materials, this section explores how business is innovating to get the most efficiency out of their packaging.
Nestlé is investing nearly $350 million over the next decade to expand its reach into sustainable coffee farming, make its factories more efficient and reduce its packaging. Beyond...
A maker of carton packaging for drinks and liquid foods has developed a new carton format that reduces the carbon footprint of packages by almost a third....
Dell has reduced its packaging by 8.7 million pounds in the past year, neared its goal to add more recycled content and is well over halfway to making the majority of its packaging recyclable in...
Laura Scudders, a brand born during the Depression Era, used to claim its potato chips were the "noisiest chips in the world." These days, to hear some consumers tell it, SunChips are...
As large, widespread fast food chains have been pressured and prodded to lower the environmental impacts of their businesses, the same has not been asked of independent quick-service cafes...
While helping the outdoor industry develop a green rating system for products, the company has announced plans to expand its own Green Index to cover its entire footwear line by the end of 2012....
This survey looks at how environmental concerns are changing consumer purchases of plastic, glass and aluminum beverage packaging. ...
Recyclable and recycled content are the most important environmental attributes consumers look for in beverage packaging, and many have changed what types of packaging they buy based on...
Procter & Gamble is bringing sugarcane to shampoo and makeup with new packaging that will be on shelves next year....
Recycling glass used to be challenge in Kansas City, but a non-profit, brewery and insulation maker have turned that around with Ripple Glass, a company that has its sights set on doubling...
A packaging material made of mushroom roots and agricultural waste is lowering its energy footprint further with new sterilizing technology....
The United Kingdom government has launched a review of waste policies in England with an eye on working toward zero waste....
The Green Packaging Group is a collection of packaging companies that have combined their efforts and developed a directory of all of their boxes, bags, labels, envelopes, tape and other...
IKEA begins phasing out incandescent bulbs, New York and California advance bans on bisphenol A, and Whole Foods starts using a pizza box that turns into plates and a storage box. ...
A second U.K. retailer has started offering Dairy Crest milk in bags, which use 75 percent less packaging than milk in jugs. ...
The retail giant’s sustainability dreams don’t appear to have diminished, though it's clear the company has been humbled by the fiendish complexity of all it has set out to do....
While some companies and supermarkets have been switching drinks to plastic bottles, hoping to cut emissions with lighter weight packaging, one retailer in Germany is swapping plastic bottles for...
A company that makes billions of frozen food trays every year has tapped FirstCarbon's ghgTrack software to help it measure and manage its carbon footprint....
The Global Packaging Project has released indicators and metrics for measuring packaging sustainability, hoping that they are adopted worldwide to improve discussions on packaging....
This report presents a common framework and measurement system for making decisions about packaging and sustainability....
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