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Creating a package that uses sustainable films, Microsoft has mapped a course for all-around success. Sales of the company's number-one best-selling travel and map software, Streets & Trips 2007 with GPS Locator, doubled the projected launch number. The Microsoft packaging illustrates how it's possible to honor a real commitment to sustainability with packaging that delivers high shelf impact. Read more...
PepsiCo facility goes green, gets gold The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) recently recognized the Gatorade Blue Ridge facility in Wytheville, VA, with its Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) designation at a Gold-level certification. At 950,000 sq ft, the facility is the largest food and beverage site in the world to achieve this designation. Read more...
Sustainable sourcing of renewable materials
When people talk about sustainable packaging, they typically default to renewable materials as the sustainable solution. But like most things having to do with sustainability, the issue is more complex. The sustainability of renewable materials has as much to do with understanding and managing the systems associated with them, as well as the intrinsic, "renewable" characteristics of the material itself. Read more...
Wal-Mart Canada pushes sustainability with Expo
Wal-Mart Canada hosted "Cradle to Cradle," a sustainable packaging exposition in partnership with the Packaging Association of Canada. The event, the first of its kind in Canada, hosted more than 100 Wal-Mart suppliers, and included product buyers from Wal-Mart Canada's home office. It was designed to support Wal-Mart Canada's goal to reduce the packaging on products sold in its stores by five percent by 2013. Read more...
Tyson Foods and Syntroleum launch renewable fuels venture
Tyson Foods Inc. and Syntroleum Corp., a Tulsa-based synthetic fuels technology company, have announced the formation of Dynamic Fuels LLC, which will produce synthetic fuels targeting the renewable diesel, jet and military fuel markets. Read more…
Aluminum can recycling rate hits 51.6 percent in the U.S.
The Aluminum Association, Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) and Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) have announced statistics indicating that Americans and the aluminum industry recycled 51.9 billion aluminum cans in 2006, half a billion more than in 2005. It has the highest recycling rate of any beverage container at 51.6 percent. Read more...
Compostable, biodegradable produce containers
The co. has specifically developed a line of packaging trays for fresh vegetables and fruit that is made from palm fiber, a renewable resource that is biodegradable and certified compostable. Read more...
Earthcycle Packaging Ltd., 604/899-0928. www.earthcycle.com
Natural plastic resins Three new grades of Mirel™ bio-based, sustainable and biodegradable, semi-crystalline natural plastics resins have been introduced: Mirel P1001 and P1002 for injection-molding applications and Mirel P2001 for paper coating. Read more...
Metabolix, 617/492-0505. www.metabolix.com
Standup blister card
The new SuSTANDable™ trapped blister card is designed to convert to a standing, clamshell-like package and was developed, the co. says, to help consumer product manufacturers meet new sustainable packaging initiatives. Read more...
J&J Packaging, 800/838-2571. www.jjpackaging.com
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