Plastic

Guinness Removes Plastic Packaging From Beer Packs

Guinness-maker Diageo has announced its plans to remove plastic ring carriers and shrink wrap to be removed from multipacks its beer products: Guinness, Ha...

Tackling Plastic Pollution 'An Urgent Priority' For Nestlé

Nestlé has claimed that Tackling plastic pollution, especially in oceans, is an ‘urgent priority’ for the company. This time last yea...

Lucozade Ribena Suntory Launches Bottle Redesign Plan In The UK

Lucozade Ribena Suntory has launched an ambitious plan to redesign its bottles and help accelerate its sustainability mission. The group intends to star...

Smurfit Kappa: 'Marked Increase' In Companies Seeking Shrink Film Alternatives

Irish-based corrugated packaging giant, Smurfit Kappa (SKG) has said that it has seen ‘a marked increase’ in the number of companies seeking su...

Coca-Cola Discloses Plastic Production Volume, Tops 3 Million Tonnes

Coca-Cola has revealed that it produces about 3 million tonnes of plastic packaging a year, which, according to reports, is the equivalent to 200,000 bottl...

Packager DS Smith To Exit Plastics Business, Focus On Fibre Products

DS Smith Plc has agreed to sell its plastics division to private equity firm Olympus Partners as the packaging company looks to focus on fibre and corrugat...

Nestlé Accelerates Action To Tackle Plastic Waste

Nestlé today laid out its broader vision to achieve a waste-free future and announced a series of specific actions towards meeting its April 2018 co...

It's The Final Straw For Plastics, Says Nestlé

Nestlé next month will start to drop plastic straws from its products and is working on biodegradable water bottles in a drive to reduce plastic was...