In commemoration of this year’s World Environment Day, leading consumer packaged goods company and strategic bottling partner of The Coca-Cola Company in Nigeria, Nigerian Bottling Company Ltd., (NBC), has reaffirmed its commitment to environmental stewardship by organising beach cleaning and tree planting activities to create awareness on the importance of safeguarding the earth’s finite resources. …
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Dow has announced the expansion of its Project REFLEX initiative in Egypt and Guinea, following a successful pilot phase in Nigeria. Working together with local partners, the initiative aims to establish a market for recycled contents to help address the waste issue while providing job opportunities for local communities. The project, which launched in …
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RECAPP, UAE’s first free-of-charge door-to-door recycling service developed by Veolia and Coca-Cola Middle East have renewed their partnership. The companies have partnered with the common goal to close the loop on various packaging waste materials through an innovative recyclable collection scheme that enables segregation at source and diversion away from landfills. This collaboration …
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Jack Link‘s, Europe‘s largest producer of meat snacks has partnered with Huhtamaki to develop recyclable mono-material packaging. Jack Link‘s, a family-run U.S. company and manufacturer of meat snacks, is pursuing sustainability and environmental protection in EMEA by working to switch to greener packaging for the European market, among other things. The company, known …
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Alpla and Henkel have partnered again for innovative and sustainable packaging solutions. The companies have been continuously expanding its sorting and recycling technologies. The bottle bodies produced in Germany for the dishwashing detergent Pril will now be produced from 50 per cent recycled material from yellow bag waste. Recycled beverage bottles are to be …
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Carlsberg makes bio-based and fully recyclable bottles available to consumers in its largest ever trial. In its largest pilot to date, Carlsberg Group has revealed the trial of its new Fibre Bottle, putting the bio-based and fully recyclable beer bottle into the hands of consumers for the first time. With a continued focus on …
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Nova Chemicals Corporation to introduce new resin technology for machine direction oriented (MDO) and biaxially oriented (BO) processes to help its customers and brand owners meet their sustainability goals. Nova Chemicals’ innovative technology marks a major advancement in the pursuit of a plastics circular economy, as it enables recyclable all-polyethylene (PE) packaging. Nova Chemicals, …
Hochwald Foods GmbH has launched its ‘bear brand’ Bärenmarke in Pure-Pak gable top cartons from Elopak. With production sites in Germany and the Netherlands, the company covers the entire spectrum of dairy products including well-known brands Lünebest, Glücksklee, Elinas and Hochwald plus private labels and international brands such as Bonny. Detlef Lakta, managing …
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The board of directors of Almarai Company at its meeting in June 2022, approved an investment plan to enter the seafood Category, with an initial investment of 252 million riyals. At the same meeting, the Board approved an investment of 153 million Saudi riyals to secure parent poultry birds supply for Almarai and the Kingdom …
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Working with a team of recycling specialists, Heinz has taken the soft plastic returned to Tesco stores by customers and created recyclable Heinz Beanz Snap Pots made with 39% recycled soft plastics. This first of its kind pilot project is set to save 22 tonnes of plastic from landfill while still offering shoppers the convenience …
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