Environment

Packaging Innovations: Broadening the debate

You can’t talk about packaging these days without being keenly aware that there is an impassioned and important debate about its impact – particularly plastic packaging – on the environment, and...

Brands switching away from plastic could increase their carbon footprint

The findings of a new report about the grocery sector have found that the switch by many brands and businesses from plastic packaging to alternatives is both confusing consumers and, in some cases,...

Print’s supply chain is greening up

The wider world and its leaders are finally waking up to the idea, thanks to numerous respected, heavyweight reports, undeniable evidence, and tireless campaigning, that what we use of the earth’s...

Since 2006 Forest Carbon has planted more than 8 million trees in the UK

Antalis rolls out universal carbon offsetting

Antalis UK has started to offer universal carbon offsetting on its products.

The campaign was launched during an event at London’s Charing Cross

Campaign launched to make cartonboard official

Pro Carton has launched a campaign to make cartonboard an official term after it was found that despite universal use of the material, the word is broadly unrecognised.

Roche: "We want the printing industry to be making the right choices"

Haybrooke set to launch plastic content measurement

Print procurement specialist Haybrooke has followed its carbon offsetting initiative with a new service that allows customers to measure the amount of plastic in their orders.

Consumers struggle to understand terms like ‘bio-based’, ‘compostable’ and ‘biodegradable’ when it comes to plastic

Plastic packaging action confusing consumers

Swapping out plastic packaging for alternatives is confusing consumers and even having detrimental environmental effects, according to a new report on the grocery sector.

The Bank of England launched a £50m tender for the supply of banknote polymer

Review of 2019: January

Our annual roundup of all the big stories around the UK printing industry.

Metsä Board is one of many industry names involved in the 4evergreen alliance

Paper companies join new fibre-based packaging alliance

Companies across the paper value chain are part of a new alliance that has been established to promote sustainable methods of dealing with fibre-based packaging.

The straw is designed to be fully biodegradable in different environments

Stora Enso and Sulapac launch 'sustainable straw'

Stora Enso and Sulapac are launching a renewable and biodegradable straw to help combat the global problem of plastic waste.