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CEOs from Ball, Ikea, Nestlé, H&M, others call for climate action ahead of COP29
A letter, signed by senior executives from over 100 corporations, urges governments and businesses to collaborate to address challenges related to climate risk mitigation.
By Zoya Mirza • Oct. 16, 2024 -
Deep Dive
‘Everybody benefits’: Why the beauty industry needs to get serious about accessible packaging
Rare Beauty and Target have taken steps to develop guidance around universally accessible design, but the industry isn’t prioritizing it yet.
By Caroline Jansen • Oct. 15, 2024 -
How2Recycle revamp
Danone chooses cartons for initial How2Recycle Plus rollout
The company also detailed other packaging formats where it’s considering adding the labels, which include a Recycle Check QR code. It’s unclear how much consumers engaged with those QR codes during other brands’ pilots.
By Maria Rachal • Updated Oct. 11, 2024 -
Clorox says 2023 cyberattack hurt progress on 2030 plastic, waste reduction goals
The company is reassessing some sustainability goals, according to its latest annual report. Data shows the company stagnated on lowering virgin material and upping PCR in packaging.
By Maria Rachal • Oct. 9, 2024 -
Consumers are confused by packaging sustainability claims
Between greenwashing, confusing terminology and a lack of information, a lot gets lost in translation, according to speakers from the National Retail Federation, NielsenIQ and others at recent industry events.
By Katie Pyzyk • Oct. 7, 2024 -
How2Recycle revamp
How2Recycle Plus ready to take dynamic labels mainstream
The new offering features a QR code so consumers can access localized recycling information. It will come at a higher price to brands than the more traditional How2Recycle Pro label. Danone will be the first to adopt it.
By Maria Rachal • Oct. 4, 2024 -
Deep Dive
Hush-hush: Is greenwashing pushback prompting pivot to ‘greenhushing’?
Companies must focus on data to back their sustainability claims instead of resorting to silence, or exaggerations, said sources from groups such as the U.S. Plastics Pact, Glass Packaging Institute and McCormick & Co.
By Katie Pyzyk • Oct. 3, 2024 -
How2Recycle revamp
The How2Recycle label is getting a new look
The campaign to transform the instructional label program involves a refreshed design, enhanced data sources and partners handling different aspects of the system, and planning for greater investment in consumer education.
By Maria Rachal • Oct. 1, 2024 -
Packaging trade shows to watch in 2025
Mark your calendar: These U.S. conferences and events will cover timely trends in sustainable packaging design, recycling technologies, regional market trends, substrate evolutions, automation and more.
By Packaging Dive Staff • Oct. 1, 2024 -
Microplastics greenwashing suit against BlueTriton dismissed
Earlier this month, a federal judge ruled that the class-action complaint involving the company’s Ice Mountain bottled water was preempted by federal law. The plaintiffs recently amended their complaint.
By Lamar Johnson • Aug. 28, 2024 -
Coca-Cola ‘on track’ for packaging recyclability goal, ‘behind plan’ on recycled content target
In an environmental update, the beverage giant reported that progress on reusable packaging formats and recyclability was stagnant in 2023 while its rate of recycled PET use ticked up.
By Maria Rachal • Aug. 22, 2024 -
Can canned food outlast competition from flexible plastic alternatives?
With consumers feeling squeezed by inflation, food companies like Bush’s Beans and suppliers such as Sonoco see cans as a reliable space to grow in while also meeting sustainability goals.
By Shefali Kapadia • Aug. 15, 2024 -
Snickers owner Mars to buy Kellanova for $35.9B
The deal for the Cheez-It and Pringles maker is the biggest in the food space since the Kraft-Heinz merger in 2015. It gives the gum and candy giant a dominant presence in savory snacks, where it currently has little exposure.
By Christopher Doering • Aug. 14, 2024 -
Can-makers share perspective on energy drink, beer market trends
Coca-Cola and Anheuser-Busch InBev are among the beverage brand owners that reported Q2 results recently. CEOs at Ball, Crown and Ardagh spoke on beverage markets during earnings calls.
By Maria Rachal • Aug. 2, 2024 -
Q&A
Aesthetics vs. environment: How Estée Lauder balances luxury and sustainability
Efforts include sourcing postconsumer resin and leveraging chemical recycling. Making sustainability leaps more apparent to consumers is also a concern at the cosmetics and skincare giant.
By Katie Pyzyk • July 29, 2024 -
Mars doubts it can achieve 2025 sustainable packaging targets
Almost half of Mars’ packaging portfolio is being redesigned or eliminated to align with current or future recycling infrastructure. But infrastructure advancement is taking longer than expected, per its latest sustainability report.
By Maria Rachal • July 29, 2024 -
Califia Farms acquires Uproot to reduce packaging via food service dispensers
Uproot has more than 150 dispensers across the U.S. at college campuses and other dining locations. The announcement follows the plant-based beverage brand’s rollout of 100% rPET bottles in the U.S. and Canada.
By Elizabeth Flood • July 25, 2024 -
Social media-driven redesigns: Lessons from a packaging pickle
Platforms such as Instagram and TikTok have created space for packaging to go viral for not-so-good reasons. But they also give brands such as Grillo’s Pickles a potentially powerful new tool for garnering consumer feedback.
By Shefali Kapadia • July 8, 2024 -
Companies begin to signal changes to 2025 plastic targets
Halfway through 2024, some organizations have said they’re off track or are switching gears to focus on new goals or more distant target years.
By Packaging Dive Staff • July 5, 2024 -
Grove explains decision to drop plastic-free by 2025 goal
The home essentials marketplace operator said eliminating plastic would require legislation and “massive transformation in the CPG ecosystem.” Spray pumps and laundry pods are some of the items where plastic still plays a role.
By Maria Rachal • July 2, 2024 -
PepsiCo anticipates missing certain 2025 packaging sustainability goals
The same day the CPG released its ESG report acknowledging it’s unlikely to hit a 2025 packaging circular design target, the city of Baltimore sued PepsiCo and others for their “significant roles in creating a plastic pollution crisis.”
By Katie Pyzyk • June 21, 2024 -
Keurig Dr Pepper reaffirms commitment to 2025 sustainable packaging goals
The commitment — which applies to goals on recycled content, virgin plastic reduction and more — comes as some other organizations have changed their sustainable packaging targets.
By Maria Rachal • June 21, 2024 -
Plastic Promises Scorecard casts more doubt on 2025 company targets
As You Sow awarded no ‘A’ scores, as it echoed US Plastics Pact concerns about companies not progressing quickly enough to meet 2025 targets. Still, it lauded goals and efforts at Keurig Dr Pepper, Coca-Cola and SC Johnson.
By Maria Rachal • June 18, 2024 -
SKU rationalization is in. What does that mean for packaging partners?
Unilever, Hain Celestial and other brands are thinking through their offerings to boost profits. Such efforts can also simplify operations for packaging manufacturers, allowing them to produce quickly at scale.
By Shefali Kapadia • June 4, 2024 -
4 talking points at Circularity on the path forward for packaging
To scale change, experts brought up the need for more precompetitive collaboration and the desire to move beyond pilots, among other themes.
By Maria Rachal • May 30, 2024