Business Management - Sustainability

In today's episode of POW!, we're diving into the sustainability categories from the 2020 Packaging Impressions Excellence Awards. Inland Packaging received First Place in the Sustainability: Labels category for its label for Great Value Hydrate Electrolyte Water, which utilizes Pure Wash, which enables easier recycling of plastic bottles.

Bacardi and Danimer Scientific have announced a collaboration through which Bacardi will launch a 100% biodegradable spirits bottle by 2023. The new bottle will replace 80 million plastic bottles – 3,000 tons of plastic – currently produced by Bacardi across its portfolio of brands every year.

Zing Zang, manufacturer of the fastest growing bloody Mary mix in the U.S., has transitioned its 32-ounce bloody Mary mix bottle from glass to plastic, featuring 25% post-recycled content and CleanFlake technology from Avery Dennison Label and Packaging Materials.

Despite its limited adoption in North America, rotogravure printing thrives at American Packaging Corporation’s DeForest, Wis., facility. In fact, two new presses have recently been added to the site.

Meyers has announced its commitment to obtaining all its electricity from carbon-free sources by the end of 2021. By committing to use only carbon-free energy sources for electricity, Meyers is dramatically reducing its carbon emissions.

Forest Film is the world’s first polypropylene film label material derived entirely from wood-based sources based on mass balance approach and brings UPM Raflatac’s vision of “labeling a smarter future beyond fossils” to life. The material recently received the 2020 Innovation in Responsible Sourcing Award from the Sustainable Packaging Coalition.

TLMI has joined the list of associations that are signatories of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Green Tier Charter Program. The associations have established goals and commitments for the Charter collaboratively with the Department of Natural Resources.

PUREfloat from Mactac was designed specifically for applications where labels applied to PET containers can be washed off cleanly to allow the container to be recycled.

Georgia-Pacific is expanding its offerings to include paper padded mailers — a sustainable solution to meet growing demands. The company opened a new facility in May to produce the mailers and has announced that Amazon will be a key customer.

UPM Raflatac announced it has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact. As a founding Activator of the U.S. Plastics Pact, UPM Raflatac outlined four specific circular economy goals, which it aims to deliver by 2025.