The Swiss retail cooperative Migros launched a new pilot project in the non-food segment in August 2020: Consumers in two markets can now fill their own detergents and dishwashing liquids. If the customers accept the offer, it is to be expanded.
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In Spain, Coca-Cola European Partners wants to bind multipack cans together with recyclable CanCollar rings based on cardboard. The solution is to be used for the first time on the Balearic Islands in November 2020.
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The British supermarket chain Asda is launching a new, 100 percent recyclable blueberry peel. The packaging concept is also to be extended to other products such as grapes and tomatoes.
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Avoiding plastics is the goal of Green Home Living GmbH. With her online shop, in which she sells tabs for dissolving and producing cleaning agents as well as the matching spray bottles, she seems to have taken the pulse of the times.
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Bimbosan now launches baby food in a new flat-bottom bag. This bag consists of more than 40 percent renewable raw materials. Thanks to the optimization of the polyethylene sealing layer, the weight of the final packaging is also 10 percent lower than before.
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50 percent fewer copies, 20 percent more sales: Apeel passed the avocado pilot test at Edeka and Netto with flying colors. The offer is now being rolled out nationwide. After approval by the EU authorities, it is to be extended to other products from the fruit and vegetable range.
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Magnum is the first ice cream brand to use a special, chemically recycled plastic for ice cream cups. After a successful pilot test in Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands, Unilever is now taking the next step and rolling out the project throughout Europe.
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This time, solutions in the area of sustainability were among the main focuses of the entries in the competition organized by the German Packaging Institute. For the first time, however, ideas relating to digitization were also honored in a separate competition category.
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Upfield plans to successively introduce CO2 labelling on 100 million packages of its vegetable spreads, margarines, vegetable butter and vegetable creams. The project is expected to be completed by the end of 2021, enabling consumers to make an informed choice.
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In order to stabilise and promote the sustainable reusable cycle in Germany, four major German brewers are founding the GeMeMa Gesellschaft für Mehrwegmanagement. The initiators emphasize that their bottle pool should also be open to third parties.
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