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Opening the Globe to Can Recycling

January 9, 2013
U.S. beverage can recycling reached its highest level in a decade in 2010 and, by all accounts, continues to make a serious market dent. One of the better success
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Rooted In Plant Bottles

January 9, 2013
  The title of chief sustainability officer (CSO) is a fairly new mantle in packaging. The CSO position has risen significantly in prominence since 2004, when the first such position
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Are U.S. Consumers Ready to Put Single-Serve in their Lives

January 9, 2013
  Many companies are getting the message that consumers want to simplify their world, whether it be dropping a small laundry pod into the washer (see Tide Pods), facilitating the
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Private Label Dropping in Popularity with the Public

January 9, 2013
  Private label food brands are a $90bn business accounting for 17.4% of retail food sales in the U.S., according to Nielsen Co. Over the past six years, while most
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A 2013 Macrotrend: Packaging

January 9, 2013
  As the packaging industry embarks upon a new year, it seemed fitting to ask Philip VanDusen, executive creative director at Landor Associates, to identify some key trends for 2013.
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THE NEXT BIG THING FOR PET

January 9, 2013
              According to a major study published by Packaging Strategies, The Packaging of Processed Foods in Wide Mouth PET Jars in the US (conversion opportunities from glass jars 2012-2017), the
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CRADLE TO LABEL

January 9, 2013
                As the Sustainable Packaging Coalition (SPC) continues to gain traction on its recycling label program, it becomes more evident that retail could be driving many new efforts.              The
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ADVENTURES IN THE BIO-BASED PLASTICS MARKET: NEW PGA POLYMER DEVELOPMENTS FROM FINLAND

January 9, 2013
              The quest to rid the world of petroleum-based plastic packaging could be taking another turn with new developments in Finland for a specialty material made of sugarcane byproducts.            
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AMCOR USES LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS TO LIGHTWEIGHT NEW LINE OF FILMS

January 9, 2013
     Amcor Light is Amcor’s answer to lightweighting. This new range of films for fresh and dairy applications reduces packaging weight and its cradle-to-gate carbon footprint by up to one-third
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Raise Your Glass to Another Year of Change

January 9, 2013
  As we are at the end of each year, we’re consumed with a tidal wave of economic forecasts, indicators, predictions, and trend analysis that is expected to tell us
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