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>>Thursday, June 11, 2009
Some make caring for the environment a choice.
We make it our business.
CHEP has helped more than 300,000 customers in 45 countries increase their profitability and simultaneously decrease their impact on the environment. One pallet at a time.
Sunchips debuts compostable bag
Just in time for Earth Day, PepsiCo's Frito-Lay Div. rolls out compostable packaging bit by bit this year, with a fully compostable bag due out in 2010. Applied to bags of its SunChips brand, the plant-based, biodegradable material is made with NatureWorks' polylactic acid (PLA) film. Read more...
Subway slims salad bowls to reduce impact
Sandwich chain Subway slims down its plastic salad bowls and lids from 10 to 9 in. dia, in new containers that still hold the same 32-oz amount of salad. The materials were also changed from OPS to PET resin, with 10-percent post-consumer recycled content. Read more...
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Placon, a leader in thermoformed plastics, continues to expand its line of packaging for food, retail and medical markets. With innovation and industry leadership, products range from the sustainable EcoStar material to highly customized solutions designed by an internal team of design experts. More information >>
SPC notes
Explaining the recovery of packaging
The U.S. needs to establish a harmonized and transparent messaging approach for all materials and packaging formats to encourage greater participation and offer incentives for development of better recycling infrastructure. Read more...
Newsbytes
Walmart expo highlights sustainability
Walmart encourages its suppliers to help sustain the environment by hosting its fourth annual Packaging Sustainability Expo. Open to all packaged goods companies that supply Walmart stores, the expo was attended by the company's buyers, who visited exhibitor booths and talked with suppliers to help find sustainable packaging solutions. Read more...
Alcoa helps National Guard recycle
Alcoa announces that more than 50 U.S. Army National Guard facilities in Illinois, will enhance their recycling programs by using recycling bins donated by Alcoa. More than 1,000 green, 22-gallon bins have been delivered to the National Guard headquarters for distribution throughout the state. Read more...
Aluminum can maker hits recycling record
Novelis Inc. announced that it recycled an estimated 39 billion aluminum beverage cans in the past year, a new company record. Novelis is the world's largest producer of flat-rolled aluminum and the world's leading recycler of used beverage cans. The company estimates it reduced its need for primary aluminum by more than 530,000 metric tons. Read more...
'Green' gift bags made from limestone
Wine gift bags tend to carry a high price tag for the planet in terms water-born waste, atmospheric emissions and electrical energy consumption. That's why Joy Harding offers the Earth Balance Bag, a line of tree-free "paper" bags made of limestone. Read more...
Restraint urged on PET degradable additives
The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) urges restraint in the use of degradable additives in PET packaging. NAPCOR says no data has been made publicly available to substantiate or document the claims of degradability of PET resins containing degradable additives, the effect of degradable additives on the PET recycling stream and the impacts of additives on the products made from recycled PET. Read more...
New products
Bottle is biodegradable
New water bottle infused with Reverte™ Back to Nature® additive reportedly will biodegrade, usually within 10 to 20 years. The shelf-stable and recycling-compatible bottles revert through molecular degradation triggered by photo initiation and followed by microbial activity. Read more...
Planet Green Bottle, 888/941-9955. www.planetgreenbottle.com
Tamper-evident lid
The EcoServe tamper-evident lid made with NaturesPLAstic® bio-resin fits all sizes of the co.'s EcoServe Square containers and eliminates the need for shrink bands. Many disposable food containers require a shrink band for product safety. The tamper-evident lid is made with Ingeo™ biopolymer (made from plants), which results in less fossil fuel and less greenhouse gases used when producing plastic biopolymer than traditional oil-based plastics. Read more...
Wilkinson Industries Inc., 800/456-4519. www.wilkinsonindustries.com
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