Lipton Bottles Made from 100 Percent rPET
PepsiCo wants Lipton to help transform the beverage market toward greater sustainability. Starting April 2021, all bottles in the entire iced tea range will be made from 100 percent rPET.
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Beverages
The App for More Recycling
Numerous well-known beverage producers in Austria have joined forces in an initiative that rewards proper recycling with attractive prizes via the “RecycleMich App”. As a first step, the app is now being tested in Vienna.
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Mixing Fanta Yourself
In Germany, Fanta Orange, Sprite and Mezzo Mix will be available as beverage syrups starting March 2021 as part of a pilot project. This will allow consumers to mix the beverages to their own taste – and Coca-Cola will save on packaging.
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Hipp Wants to Package More Sustainably
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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Radeberger Pilsner Switches to Pool Solution
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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Warning Label for Single-Use Plastics
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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Arctic Water in Aluminum Packaging
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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UHT Milk in PET Bottles
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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Reusable Innovation Award for fritz-kola and Hassia Mineralquellen
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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Packaging Law About to Be Amended
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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