The Refill Coalition, a major collaborative refillable packaging initiative, has won the Ambient Food Award category in the Environmental Packaging Awards 2024. The Coalition, founded in 2020, comprises leading reuse and refill experts GoUnpackaged, Ocado Retail, Aldi UK, and supply chain solutions company CHEP.
Innovate UK is inviting ambitious companies to participate in its Global Business Innovation Programme for sustainable plastics, which aims to help UK businesses innovating in this field to grow and scale on a global stage through building R&D and innovation collaborations and partnerships.
The power of innovation in sustainable plastics packaging is being showcased at the Packaging Innovations Birmingham 2024.
Next-generation materials company Xampla has been awarded the Innovate UK Smart Grant alongside 2M Group of Companies to support scaled-up manufacturing of its natural, biodegradable Morro materials.
Marks & Spencer (M&S) has announced that it is expanding its popular ‘Refilled’ scheme for own-brand cleaning and laundry products, in partnership with Reposit, a collaborative reusable packaging platform.
A major international collaboration to provide independent, scientific data linked to design, sortability and mechanical recyclability of flexible packaging has published its first report, with a focus on Near Infrared (NIR) technology.
A transformative, not-for-profit packaging data-sharing platform (GING) has been launched this week to support efficient, consistent and secure capture, sharing and reporting of packaging data.
A new quiz aims, developed by researchers from the University of Strathclyde and the Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon in Germany, is helping to bust myths and misconceptions around plastics in the global environment.
A new display that uses the past as a guide for informing the future of sustainability in packaging is on show at the Museum of Brands in London.
A competition by UK Research & Innovation’s Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge, delivered by Innovate UK, has funded six projects to design easy-to-use solutions for capturing and storing household flexible plastics for recycling.
