• Grants to help SMEs in Victoria keep packaging waste out of landfills are now available.
    Grants to help SMEs in Victoria keep packaging waste out of landfills are now available.
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The past two months have seen many developments in the sustainability space. The November/December issue includes a roundup of these innovations.

Determining how sustainable an item of packaging is requires much more than looking at its recyclability. While recycling is an important piece of the sustainability puzzle, it is certainly not the only one. Tetra Pak commissioned a market-first comparative lifecycle assessment of food and beverage packaging in Australasia, and its findings may surprise some.

Food & Drink Business

Entries are now open for the annual Melbourne Royal Australian Food Awards. Open to commercial food producers of all sizes, it is one of the largest programs of its kind. 

Victorian brewery, Bodriggy Brewing Co, is the first brewery in the state to achieve carbon-neutral certification and only the second in Australia to do so. The independent Abbotsford-based brewery achieved certification under the federal government’s Climate Active program.

According to Rabobank data, Australian consumers are facing higher chocolate prices heading into Easter, with retail chocolate prices up 8.8 per cent on the previous year as global cocoa prices soar.