A scientific research collaboration between Nespresso Australia and the UNSW Smart Centre says metallised packaging such as chip packets and spent coffee capsules can be recycled into steel making.

As part of National Recycling Week, Kellogg’s has partnered with REDcycle and Replas to increase awareness about soft plastics recycling.

Coles has partnered with Victorian recycling organisations Red Group and Replas, to pioneer and install a concrete slab carpark made partly out of recycled soft plastics.

A new report conducted on behalf of Tetra Pak in Australia and New Zealand, and independently peer-reviewed, shows Tetra Pak cartons have a lower carbon footprint than other packaging used for the same products.

Australian packaging start up Zero Co has raised $2m in seed funding as it moves into the production stage of its refillable ‘forever bottle' and pouches from recycled plastic.

The World Wide Fund for Nature-Australia has welcomed a plan to ban problematic single-use plastics including plates, cutlery and thick plastic bags in Western Australia.

Innovative recycling operation Plastic Forests has a new product, now producing plastic fence posts made from used silage film, with the first 500 posts being shipped off to fire-damaged farms in Tumbarumba NSW.

Sunglasses made from plastic recycled from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch have become the first product to adopt a standard designed to clean up the oceans.

Food manufacturer Mars said it would incorporate recycled polypropylene plastic into the primary packaging for some of its popular pet food brands.

Visy and Geofabrics have signed a partnership to use rPET that is not fit for bottle-to-bottle recycling to make sustainable geotextiles for use in the road, rail, and mining industries.

During the last keynote session of the virtual AIP conference, two leaders from companies pioneering reusable packaging discussed the opportunities that come with such systems.

Self-adhesive solutions specialist Herma has committed the company to a carbon-neutral footprint within its sphere of direct influence from 2021.

Coca-Cola Australia said by the end of 2021, it would reduce its use of virgin plastic by 40,000 tonnes (compared with 2017) by using frozen drink cups and lids made from recycled plastic.

The Victorian government is supporting the state’s businesses and organisations to reduce packaging waste while diverting more than 5500 tonnes of waste from landfill each year.

During the keynote session for the third day of the virtual AIP conference, two experts gave an in-depth presentation on the nitty gritty of how to foster a circular economy.

Packaging professionals gathered in a virtual room on Wednesday to thrash out the problems and hurdles that stand in the way of realising a closed loop, circular economy for packaging materials.