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As stakeholders continue to mount environmental and sustainability pressures on businesses, retailers of all shapes and sizes must now pay specific attention to the packaging they’re using. Here’s how HSM UK, manufacturers of office and…

Reflecting the Environmental Audit Committee report’s ambitions, Veolia is already offering solutions to collect, recycle and re-use Britain’s coffee cups. Estelle Brachlianoff, senior executive vice-president at Veolia UK & Ireland,…

The UK throws away 2.5 billion disposable coffee cups every year, enough to circle the planet five and a half times. This is according to a report published last week by the Government. Environmental audit committee chair, Mary Creagh…

Cosmetics industry giant, Oriflame Products Poland, has joined UPM Raflatac’s RafCycle recycling program. RafCycle recycles and reuses pressure sensitive label waste to create new materials. The partnership supports Oriflame’s target to…

A recent study shows that plastic sacks are the most sustainable packaging solution for cement: AD*STAR cement sacks made of coated polypropylene fabric achieve considerably better results than sacks made of paper or recycled…

In her recent post on the blokboek.net blog, which was the associated newsletter/blog during this year’s drupa exhibition, Laurel Brunner states that now that drupa 2016 is over, we can start hoping that in 2020 the environment will be in…

UPM Raflatac announced Coveris as the winner of the RafCycle Award at Labelexpo Europe 2015 in Brussels last week. The RafCycle Award is presented in recognition of excellence in recycling and environmental performance. Coveris has…

SO Recycle, part of SO Group, will be showing printers how they can make money on their waste materials in just 14 days at The Print Show, NEC, Birmingham, October 13-15. SO Recycle is committed to cost-saving waste collection; it…

Two Tetra Pak products, each designed specifically to reduce environmental impact, have won prestigious WorldStar packaging Awards at this year’s ceremony in Milan, Italy. Tetra Top with Separable Top and Tetra Prisma Aseptic 1,000 with…

Elanders UK has been looking at the best materials to use for flexible packaging in 2015: Flexible packaging, such as pliable plastic bags and wrappers, has long been used for storing food items. In addition to confectionary, baked goods…