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Josh Brooks, Packaging News, 01 July 2009
Corrugated packaging has moved out of the supply chain shadows into a leading role on the main stage – the supermarket shelf. Josh Brooks visits DS Smiths new Impact & Innovation centre to find out more
via Corrugated giant eyes retail-ready boom | packagingnews.co.uk.
UK supermarkets should be forced to reveal how much packaging they produce, local councils say.
The Local Government Association (LGA) said only Morrisons, Waitrose, and Marks & Spencer responded to its request for details on packaging.
Justin King has ruled out the possibility of introducing carbon labelling to Sainsbury’s products in the near future.
Article spotted in thegrocer, just follow the link to read the full article http://bit.ly/tAm0q
Article By Chris Penfold Design Cognition
We’ve been having an interesting debate in the office over the past few days regarding the importance of innovative packaging for the CD market and how it could help CDs compete with the download market. Affiliated to this is the need to move forward in innovative ways in a market that is becoming more and more impacted by environmental concerns.
Many CD producers are trying to cut costs to compete but is that the right thing to do? And will it not just reduce packaging to a worthless commodity item that is just seen as waste?
During that debate we came up with some interesting insights and thought that it would be good to share them with you and elicit any comments that you might have.
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You are throwing away a billion tomatoes, 1.6m bananas, 775m bread rolls, 359,000 tonnes of potatoes and £420 a year — as well as causing pollution. In the second of our series on the greening of Britain, Richard Girling unwraps the tangled economics of food waste, packaging and recycling
This is an interesting article from the Sunday Times, to read more just click here http://bit.ly/gLbeI
By Rory Harrington, 01-Jul-2009Â Â Â Â foodproductiondaily.com
UK supermarkets are using too much plastic packaging for food products and both retailers and packing manufacturers could do more, a new survey has concluded.
The review, carried out by UK consumer magazine Which?, found that 94 per cent of respondents thought there was too much food packaging and almost one third had refused to buy an item because of the amount of packing it contained.The review, carried out by UK consumer magazine Which?, found that 94 per cent of respondents thought there was too much food packaging and almost one third had refused to buy an item because of the amount of packing it contained.
For more information just click on the link http://bit.ly/56S5V
#packaging#environmental#carbon#retailers#design#branding
Almost two thirds of consumers are more likely to buy a product if action is being taken to reduce its carbon footprint, according to a study by the Carbon Trust.
Around 70% of consumers want businesses to help them make more informed environmental choices and 58% valued companies that were reducing carbon emissions, found the study.
Euan Murray, general manager for carbon footprinting, told Packaging News the research showed that despite the credit crunch consumers still wanted to buy from companies that were “doing the right thing on climate change”.
#retailers#packaging#food#environmental
These are the top 10 according to research done by Sainsbury’s – interesting, but do you agree?
1 Fruit and vegetables: bagged and boxed
2 Meat packaging: hard to recycle
3 Yoghurt pots: multipacks don’t need further packaging
4 Cereals: bagged and boxed
5 Pizza: packed in several thin layers
6 Ready Meals: don’t need outer cardboard wrapper
7 Milk: needs to be more recyclable
8 Multi-pack cans
9 Crisps: too much waste in multipacks
10 Tomato puree: no need for box around tube
Source: Sainsbury’s
#retail#packaging#branding#environmental
Sainsbury’s has responded to consumer pressure over packaging by removing the cardboard box from its Basics cereals range.
Basics Rice Pops is the supermarket’s first product to be packaged in a printed bag, and the retailer is looking to roll the packaging out to the rest of the range, following a two-month investigation into which packaging particularly frustrated consumers.
#retailers#ethical#cosmetics#toiletries
By Guy Montague-Jones, 22-Jun-2009
Boots has been accused of “turning its back on workers†after the health and beauty retailer pulled out of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI).
The ETI aims to improve conditions and rights for workers and has built up a membership that includes 56 firms with a joint turnover of more than £100bn. NGOs and trade unions are also members and their job is to scrutinize company claims and ensure that they honour their ethical commitments.
