With its “Mission 2025″ baby food supplier Hipp is fine-tuning how to package the products it offers even more sustainably. And it is taking itself as a role model: by 2025, all Hipp packaging should be just as recyclable as the well-known Hipp jars.
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For the sake of the environment, Radeberger Brauerei is doing away with the 0.33-liter individual bottle that has been established on the market for almost 15 years. Starting March 2021, the changeover to pool bottles from the Gesellschaft für Mehrwegmanagement (GeMeMa) will begin.
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Many single-use plastic products will be banned in the EU starting July 2021. Some others that cannot currently be banned will in future bear a special label warning of environmental damage caused by plastic. This is what the federal cabinet in Germany has now decided.
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The Norwegian brand Lofoten Arctic Water is being launched in a Ball resealable aluminum bottle – initially in Norway, Germany, France, Taiwan and the UK. Other markets are to follow.
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Milk specialist Inex from Belgium has switched from carton to PET in packaging for part of its production. It has opted for an aseptic PET packaging line from Sidel: It is designed to help meet a growing demand for locally produced milk.
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The Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) and the Stiftung Initiative Mehrweg have honored fritz-kola and Hassia Mineralquellen for exemplary initiatives in the further development of the German reusable system. DUH sees reusables as the key to solving the single-use waste problem.
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The Federal Cabinet has passed a resolution, and the Bundestag and Bundesrat are now deciding on new requirements for packaging in Germany. The planned changes include strengthening reusable “to-go packaging” and extending the mandatory deposit on disposable packaging.
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From February 2021, FrieslandCampina will produce PET bottles for a range of brands and markets from 100 percent recycled PET. To improve recyclability, the company has also developed a „zipper“ for the label that makes it easier to separate from the bottle.
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The coffee roasting company Cofi Loco offers coffee beans in a reusable glass bottle via its own online store. From the beginning of December 2020, the reusable bottles will also be available in over 150 Edeka stores in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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In Ireland, Northern Ireland and Austria, bottler Coca-Cola HBC has begun to introduce KeelClip technology, the first step in its plan to replace plastic film on all returnable cans in the European Union markets.
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