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...

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

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.

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.

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.

Review of 2019: January
Our annual roundup of all the big stories around the UK printing industry.

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.

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.