Environment

Antalis is expanding its Green Star rating system across its Visual Communication wide-format and display products on a global basis.

Elliot Baxter & Co (EBB) has teamed up with Carbon Footprint on a new carbon offsetting scheme that plants trees in the UK and also helps avoid deforestation in the Amazon.

St Austell Printing Company (SAPC) has become an official Carbon Balanced Printer.

UPM’s Speciality Papers division has launched a new range of food-safe kraft papers including a new translucent paper that can be used as an alternative to plastics.

TerraCycle has introduced new ‘Zero Waste Boxes’ for PPE materials, as it bids to find a sustainable solution to the problems around PPE ending up as litter or landfill.

MSO Cleland has invested in state-of-the-art printing and finishing kit as part of a £5m spend to expand its packaging operations that will also create 35 new jobs.

Crown Van Gelder is gearing up to make paper using sugar beet fibres on an industrial scale, in what it believes is a world first.

Ribena has teamed with Transcend Packaging to develop a bendable paper straw for its juice cartons – the first major juice brand to do so.

The BPIF has welcomed the government's decision to keep the Climate Change Agreement (CCA) scheme open to new entrants until 30 November 2020.

Heineken UK is replacing plastic rings with a new cardboard topper on multi-pack tins of Heineken, Foster’s and Kronenbourg 1664.