Tag "műanyagcsomagolás"

Jumbo Removes Plastic Covers From Some Vegetables

Dutch retailer Jumbo is removing plastic covers from red peppers and cucumbers grown in the country. The retailer also plans to remove the plastic packaging from its spring onions before the...

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Morrisons to remove ‘problematic’ plastics by 2025

Morrisons has pledged to reduce, replace or eliminate plastic across its business having already shrunk its plastic packaging by 17.5% from its 2017 baseline. On average, 9,680 tonnes of plastic...

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No more plastic labels on Actimel bottles in Germany

Danone in Germany is removing the plastic label tape from Actimel yoghurt bottles with immediate effect. The company’s aim with this step is to save around 300 tonnes of plastic...

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Nestlé Has Cut Virgin Plastic Packaging By 10.5% Since 2018

Food giant Nestlé has reduced the use of virgin plastic packaging by 10.5% since 2018 and is on track to cut the use of the material by a third by...

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Aldi launches first in-store trial with UK Refill Coalition to reduce plastic waste

The UK Refill Coalition has launched a new pilot with an Aldi store in Solihull, as part of its shared mission to tackle single-use plastic packaging waste. The solution –...

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Aldi backs Marine Conservation Society with £50,000 sponsorship

Aldi is supporting the Marine Conservation Society with a £50,000 programme of sponsorship; the move will see the supermarket become the biggest corporate funder of Marine Conservation Society’s beach cleaning...

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Is the transition to paper packaging just greenwashing?

Shay Zeltzer has been a proharvest consultant for almost 30 years, but the recent two days he spent at the Fruit Logistica trade show in Berlin duly shocked him, as...

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Finnish Consumers Named ‘Most Sustainable Shoppers’ In Europe

Finnish shoppers have been named the most sustainable in Europe, a study by Savoo has found, having seen a 20% decrease in their consumption footprint between 2010 and 2020. The...

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The good, the bad and the new

“In the summer of 2021 certain single-use plastics were banned in Hungary, but many partners interpreted the new law as it referred to all single-use plastic products.  This resulted in...

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Asda Launches New Chicken Packaging To Reduce Plastic Use

UK retailer Asda has introduced new packaging across its entire chicken range, which it says will remove 450 tonnes of plastic from its operations annually. The initiative will see the...

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(HU) Félúton a műanyagmentességhez

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Plastic packaging: About the main culprit from the trade’s perspective

Basically no day goes by without an article about the negative environmental impact of plastics. At the same time, the opinion of the packaging trade is hardly publicised about this....

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Faster drink trends

The buzzwords in drink innovation are free from allergens and sugar, low-calorie, low- or no-alcohol, organic, functional and local. Some of this year’s top trends are the following: • the...

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Unilever makes more pledges

Unilever has made a pledge to halve its ‘virgin’ plastic (that is non-recycled plastic) use by 2025. To this end the company will utilise more than 100,000 tons less plastic...

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