Heinz has upped its sustainability credentials with the introduction of 100 per cent recyclable caps for its squeezy sauce bottles, potentially diverting one billion caps away from landfill.

Supermarket giant Woolworths has just published a list of problematic and preferred packaging materials for its suppliers to refer to, based on a traffic-light system of red, amber and green.

This Plastic Free July, packaging manufacturer Detpak has announced a partnership with Hallmark, which will see coffee cups recycled into gift wrap.

Australia’s pioneering salad manufacturer One Harvest has aligned with the ANZPAC Plastics Pact and committed to making all of its plastic packaging recyclable, reusable or compostable by 2025.

A new Australian owned and made plant-based soap brand, Keeper Clean, is pitched as a luxurious, chemical-free product in packaging that is either compostable or recyclable, and almost completely plastic-free.

In yet another coup for Planet Protector Packaging, the company’s flagship Woolpack product has achieved top honours in the WEConnect International Rise to the Challenge awards. And as its star continues to rise, Planet Protector has just added nine new companies to its fast growing client list.

As PP faces an 'existential crisis', multinational brand owner Unilever has joined Nextek’s global project NEXTLOOPP, which aims to create food-grade recycled polypropylene (rPP) from post-consumer packaging waste.

Planet Protector Packaging, manufacturer of Woolpack, opened its doors to AIP members for a virtual tour of its ANZ manufacturing plants.

Joe Cook, vice-president of sustainable packaging provider Delta Global, warns that the spike in single-use plastics during the pandemic should not excuse businesses from their sustainability obligations.

APCO has released its National Compostable Packaging Strategy, a comprehensive new approach to how Australia can develop an environmentally sustainable system for compostable packaging.

Ferrero Australia is set to trial 100 per cent recyclable Kinder Bueno point-of-sale displays, saving more than 10,000 square metres of plastic.

The winners of the inaugural Circle Awards has been announced and Planet Protector Packaging’s Woolpack innovation was recognised on the night, taking out the Materials & Process category.

In its infant year, CHEP's new 1/6 Pallet has already won multiple industry awards for its innovative design and its sustainability credentials.

A new report has revealed that 76 per cent of Australians think that recycling is the most positive thing they can do for the environment and that they look first to product labelling for accurate information about how to recycle right.

The Krones Group believes a recycling technology’s sustainability must not be assessed by the quality of its end-product alone, as the processes used play an equally important role.

Aerobal claims that over the last decade the global aluminium aerosol can industry has achieved an average growth rate of about 3.5% to their “convincing functional, consumer-oriented and environmental performance”.