After two years of “Aldi Packaging Mission”, the discounters Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd are drawing a positive interim balance. And announce that they intend to offer at least 40 percent of fruit and vegetables unpackaged by the end of 2025.
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L’Oréal, together with its partners LanzaTech and Total, has presented a packaging made from recovered carbon emissions. It is the first of its kind. Work is now to be done to increase the production volumes for this special plastic.
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As part of a relaunch of the beauty care brands Nature Box, Gliss Kur and Syoss, the packaging portfolio will also be made more sustainable. For example, the use of recycled materials has been further increased. And soot-free ink has been used for black packaging.
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Aldi Nord and Aldi Süd are offering a vegan chocolate dessert of the brand “Made with Luve” with integrated “Spoonie” at the end of October. The special feature of the spoon is that it is made on a purely vegetable basis and is edible, whereby the taste is supposed to remind one a little of cocoa.
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After the changeover of Swiss chocolates to bio-film, Rapunzel Naturkost is now changing the packaging for the sugars. The previous inner film made of plastic is replaced by a bio-film.
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The Dutch coffee brand Zuivere Koffie produces organic coffee that is roasted in prison. Metsä Board’s brief for the packaging
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With new versions of Mettler Toledo’s “Product Data Check” technology, labels of packaged food and pharmaceutical products can be checked
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Consumers make a “fashion statement” when it comes to sustainability: According to a study by packaging manufacturer Smurfit Kappa, 35 percent of online customers would prefer not to buy fashion if the packaging is not environmentally friendly.
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In Italy, the “Ricircola” project for recycling plastic food packaging has been launched. The companies Amadori, Apofruit, BPER Banca, Conad, Ilip and Hera are working together to support the initiative.
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The British retail chain Tesco is introducing new flexible plastic packaging for cheese. The test is intended to show that recycled plastic is suitable for food. The pyrolysis recycling process is used to recover the raw material.
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