Food and beverage brands constantly launch new products and new packages, many of which are posted to social media — if you can find them. Packaging Digest highlights the best of them on a regular basis, with the most recent “find” at the beginning. Here are relevant posts from December 2021. CLICK HERE to see the latest additions. 

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Researchers develop smart sustainable food packaging that keeps harmful microbes at bay.

Freedonia: clamshell food packaging for retail projected to grow 3.8% per year through 2025

New January 1 law in ME to prohibit use of phthalates in food and beverage packaging.

Surprising Music Box Cookie Tins at Aldi’s.

Magnetic inks can optimize recycling sortation of packaging.

Smart dairy packaging.

Lay’s-branded vodka just in time for the holidays.

Plasma treatment makes EPS meat trays more absorbent.

Pretty wine label with clever cutout.

Taco Bell's sustainably driven packaging plans.

Righteous Felon’s playful paper pouches.

Artichoke Delights fresh-packed hearts launch in ready-to-eat tray

Compostable spice pouches made of jute fiber.

Now that’s a green Christmas tree.

A cheeky brand for the times introduces a kinder line extension: grat!tude wine.

New type of recyclable meat packaging tray could save thousands of tonnes in plastic waste.

Snacks take gold in FPA awards.

Food packaging waste into desk accessories.

Nanotechnology for food packaging.

Suntory's prototype plant-based bottle.

Johnnie Walker's hidden code.

Kellogg updates its bag-in-box cereal packaging to be fully recyclable.

Design rules for beer etc. are made to be broken.

Bublé gets his own limited-edition bubly.

NY bans PS foam food packaging.

Tons of Morrisons flexible packaging will be recycled.

Single-serve baked goods sees a lift.