Israeli mechanical engineer Izhar Gafni has built a bicycle made out of cardboard The prototype is called the ERB and at just $9 to produce, it could bring simple, green
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(Brussels, 19 October 2012) FoodDrinkEurope today hosted its fifth annual stakeholder dialogue event to discuss the progress on potential applications and innovation in the use of nanotechnology amidst a backdrop
By Dr Christoph Reichel, Plant Engineering, Measuring Systems at TUV SUD Industrie Service Manufacturers and operators of machinery and equipment for the beverage industry must choose a highly comprehensive
Signatories to Courtauld Commitment 2 are more than three quarters of the way to achieving their packaging reduction target, according to Wrap Wrap said that grocery retailers, brands and
Milk bottles manufacturer Nampak Plastics has announced it has achieved a key goal of ‘zero waste to landfill’ The news follows a company-wide drive to enhance sustainability through recycling
International Innovative Technologies (IIT), a UK-based manufacturer of fine grinding equipment, has launched new milling equipment for the fine grinding of glass waste In a statement, the firm said
A new book about environmental packaging called ‘Why shrink-wrap a cucumber?’ has been unveiled The book’s authors are Laurel Miller and Stephen Aldridge and the book has been published
Defra is monitoring plastic bag charging plans and schemes in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland In a House of Lords debate (10 October), Lord Judd asked “Her Majesty’s Government
Europe recycled more than 70% of paper in 2011, according to new figures from the European Recovered Paper Council (ERPC) The organisation said that this shows a 1.5% increase
The latest results of the Courtauld Commitment Phase 2 from WRAP, show significant progress by grocery sector signatories against its ambitious waste reduction and recycling targets for food and packaging.
Unilever, one of the world’s largest consumer goods manufacturers, has released a new set of challenges to the world’s innovation community to help the business deliver on its sustainable growth
Union Engineering’s latest installation plays a significant role in a Built-Operate-Transfer (BOT) contract between Coca-Cola and Air Liquide. The second of two deals also reflects a growing emphasis on sustainable
Food and agribusiness companies are discovering innovative ways to create value from the waste that they produce, shifting the perception of ‘waste as a cost’ to ‘waste as a revenue’,
France will ban the use of bisphenol A (BPA) in food contact packaging from 1 January The news comes after the French senate adopted a law that bans the use
The global market for bioplastics is expected to grow fivefold by 2016, according to European Bioplastics Trade body European Bioplastics said in its annual report that the current volume figure
Corrugated and paper giant DS Smith has announced that it will save more from its acquisition of the recycled packaging business of SCA than previously though The firm issued a
Bryson Recycling will be the first firm to send its bales of used materials to the UK’s first beverage carton reprocessing plant. The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment
Carlsberg Group, the world’s fourth largest brewer, and its subsidiary Baltika Breweries, Russia’s largest beer company, are to invest up to 1 billion Rubles (around Eur25 million) in environmental projects
Packaging ‘upcycle’ business Terracycle is aiming to boost the recycling of coffee packaging after linking up with Kenco Both companies have launched the Coffee Packaging Brigade, designed to allow consumers
China’s potential plans to prohibit the import of unwashed post-consumer plastics will jeopardise the chance of the UK meeting new Government recycling targets, according to Pafa The trade body has
Paper maker Arctic Paper’s Mukedals mill has acquired 50% of Kalltorp Kraft. Kalltorp Kraft is a water energy company running two water power stations in western Sweden with a total
Unilever has been announced as the latest firm to sign up to fund metal packaging recycling campaign MetalMatters The consumer products giant will help fund the recycling programme over two
Recycling technology developer Enval has announced that its laminate recycling plant will be located at Alconbury, near Huntingdon In a
Students from Buxton Community College have won prizes for a recycling competition organised by mineral water brand Buxton and plastics
Paper maker Bolloré This Papers has launched, what it calls, a new eco label It said that its new label
The global market for bioplastics is expected to grow fivefold by 2016, according to European Bioplastics Trade body European Bioplastics
Bryson Recycling will be the first firm to send its bales of used materials to the UK’s first beverage carton
Data showing the carbon impact of treatment of municipal waste will be released this November, for the first time The
Jonathon Porritt of Forum of the Future gives his views on plastics I love it when I end up in
Environment Secretary Richard Lochhead has announced that he is increasing the amount of funding available to help councils in Scotland
PET packaging company APPE has established a joint venture with Coca-Cola in France, expanding its PET recycling facility in Beaune
Responding to the DECC announcement that ROCs will remain available to new AD projects below 5 MW, Charlotte Morton, Chief
Tullibardine Distillery in Scotland is to become the first whisky distillery in the world to have its by-products converted into
Coca-Cola Hellenic, one of the world’s largest bottlers of products of The Coca-Cola Company, has been included in the 2012
Eden Springs, the leading workplace drinks provider, has offset its carbon emissions across half of its European markets. Since 2010,
Nestlé has topped a list of global companies in efforts to disclose and cut carbon emissions. The Carbon Disclosure Project,
Diageo has been recognised by the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), as the best performing beverage company in the world for
Organic waste group TEG has secured funding to construct a £21m waste facility at East London’s Dagenham Dock. The facility
UK turkey farmer and supplier Bernard Matthews (BM) is set to install a biogas plant near its processing site in
WWEM 2012, the 5th in a series of highly successful environmental monitoring events, will return to the Telford International Centre
A report launched yesterday (26 July) by campaign group Waste Watch examined how economic factors are impacting on the UK’s
The European Commission has proposed new measures to regulate fishing for deep-sea species in the North-East Atlantic. Deep sea ecosystems
UK food and drink manufacturers signed up to the Federation House Commitment (FHC) have achieved a 14.4% reduction in water
In 2011, Royal FrieslandCampina took important steps worldwide to improve the sustainability of the business in the 26 countries where
Fulton Limited, a leading manufacturer of steam, hot water and thermal fluid boilers, is introducing a new, highly-efficient modular hot
The Coca-Cola Company has developed and tested at commercial scale a first-of-its-kind beverage process water recovery system to produce high-quality
Cutting energy is so crucially important to most food producers it’s no surprise Heinz is pleased the first steam generators
Novel solar thermal technology is being used to heat oil for making potato crisp Technology developer Rackam Solar, a spin-out
2011 saw a year of record breaking performance towards United Biscuits’ (UB) environmental sustainability goals, such as achieving zero waste
The Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK has signed an agreement with paper and packaging producer, Sonoco
Barry Callebaut, the world’s leading manufacturer of high-quality cocoa and chocolate products, is establishing a SFr1 million (Eur0.83 million) Center
Diageo has further strengthened its sustainability credentials by topping the food and beverage sector in the FTSE4GOOD index 2012. The
Despite the failure to create a global, ambitious agreement moving towards further sustainable development at the Rio+20 UN Conference on
An orphanage, funded by Cargill, has been officially opened by Pierre Douhou MBA, Cote d’Ivoire’s Director of Cabinet for the
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