An anti-plastic campaign group has questioned the effectiveness of Sainsbury’s announcement that it is swapping traditional, plastic tray packaging for a new vacuum-packed alternative across its beef mince range, saving 450 tonnes of plastic annually.
DMF is recyclable, less energy-intensive to produce, and has already been utilized as an alternative to single-use plastics. But the material had never been used in beverage packaging – until now.
The bosses of Arla Foods UK, Müller Milk and Ingredients, and First Milk heard that British dairy needs to adopt a careful approach to its consumer messaging if the sector’s sustainability efforts are to be recognized by shoppers.
Economic uncertainty and the associated rising cost of goods are amongst the factors driving new trends in food and drink packaging, according to Mintel.
With new European Union (EU) packaging rules on the horizon, the bakery and snacks sectors are gearing up to address packaging requirements and waste management policies that better reflect market and environmental needs.
FoodNavigator looks back over the last 12 months and asks what our most popular stories tell us about the food and beverage sector’s direction of travel.
Johan Sanders, president of the Federation of European Manufacturers and Suppliers of Ingredients to the Bakery, Confectionery and Patisserie Industries is a believer that being one market will help the industry through its current quagmire of challenges.
Competing demands on finished products can sometimes place food and beverage packaging innovation ‘at risk’, according to insight from R&D consultancy Sagentia Innovation.
Bio-based, biodegradable and compostable plastics are often considered as the environmental heroes taking on conventional plastic – but the European Commission says such formats need to be approached carefully if they’re to live up to their promise.
Spain's Bio2Coat is hoping to solve the twin problems of food waste and plastic waste coming from packaging materials with a 100% natural, edible coating that extends shelf-life of fruits and vegetables and a 100% natural, edible packaging material...
Signatories to the Global Commitment and Plastic Pact – which includes more than 20 packaged food and beverage producers – are unlikely to all meet 2025 targets designed to ‘tackle plastic pollution at its source’.
Sustainability may be a rising priority influencing consumer purchases, but optimistic projections that 2022 would be the year of the ‘climatarian’ appear to be a bit premature – giving brands and retailers more time to improve and finetune their positioning...
Cauli is an award-winning, tech-enabled, reusable packaging scheme piloting fully reusable and recyclable CauliCups as a replacement for conventional single-use coffee cups.
With most consumers now horrified by excess plastic packaging, supermarket giant Tesco has scrapped multipacks completely for its own label drinks. Does this signal the beginning of the end for the multipack format?
Packaging manufacturer Huhtamaki is investing in the sustainable packaging fund established by Emerald Technology Ventures. The hope is to uncover ‘next generation sustainable packaging solutions’.
In research organised by the European Institute of Innovation and Technology Food community (EIT FOOD), academics looked to eliminate the shortcomings of ordinary takeaway packaging.
The quest for ever more eco-friendly packaging in the food and beverage industry is often done ‘without consideration for the effect on overall recyclability’, FoodNavigator hears.
Demand for healthier drinks, the pressure to cut carbon emissions and a world emerging from a global pandemic have all been key areas driving innovation in beverages.
Tetra Pak is developing a fibre-based barrier to replace the aluminium layer currently needed in food and beverage packaging like juice boxes and milk cartons. We caught up with Tetra Pak’s Davide Braghiroli, Product Director Packaging Materials and Alternative...
IGD has published a new report to help the food and consumer goods industry drive progress towards the shared ambition of halving the environmental impact of the UK packaging system by 2030.
A new report reveals the majority of Brits do not consider the soon-to-be implemented ‘tobacco-style’ controls of high fat, sugar and salt (HFSS) products will help in the fight against obesity.
A new report from Finland’s Technical Research Center (VTT), Recycling Food Packaging, highlights technology solutions expected to become commercially available in the next five years, and says partnerships are essential to deliver the necessary technological...
PepsiCo is already hitting notable milestones and reaping financial benefits from its ambitious pep+ plan announced last fall that places sustainability at the center of how the CPG giant says it will create value and drive growth, according to CEO Ramon...
UK soft drinks business Britvic is joining forces with University of Cambridge-backed company Xampla to develop tech to protect its vitamin fortified drinks.
Coca-Cola has announced that at least 25% of its beverages sold globally across its portfolio will be sold in refillable or returnable packaging by 2030, scaling up initiatives such as its ‘universal bottle’.
By 2030 PepsiCo Europe wants to have eliminated virgin fossil-based plastics from all its chip and crisp bags. FoodNavigator learns more about how the snack giant plans to deliver on this ambition.
Over 40% of consumers have already adopted reusable grocery packaging and are ‘thinking about’ using reusable packaging reveals new consumer research from the UK-based group which aims to give suppliers and retailers insight into consumer attitudes towards...
Packaging manufacturer Westpak has unveiled a series of new punnets and tray designs which it claims deliver a manufacturing breakthrough in packaging sustainability and offer grocery retailers and their suppliers a set of commercially viable paper-based...
The digital economy can help us prevent packaging waste, say researchers at Lancaster University and University of St Andrews, who are working with the founders of Reath, a start-up in Edinburgh, with a mission to build the digital infrastructure for...
Consumers are intrigued by new ingredients entering the functional foods space and are open to trying them but their trust in health claims can be greatly impacted by familiarity and packaging, according to new consumer insights from MMR.
Coca-Cola Europacific Partners is trialling new drinks dispensing technology in Spain: which allows consumers to serve themselves, refill drinks and pay directly from the tap.
Research published in the scientific journal Environmental Science & Technology claims to provide an enlightening but worrying insight into the world of chemicals that are intentionally added to plastics.
Food brands have an opportunity to diversify their online shopping experiences to better meet quicky shifting consumer demands, according to a new report.
Tinkering with packaging or tweaking air miles won’t cut it with increasingly sustainability-savvy consumers, and instead food brands need to thoroughly trace the environmental impact of every ingredient they use to avoid accusations of greenwashing,...
UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe, a trade organization representing the non-alcoholic beverage sector, has set targets for European beverage packaging to be fully circular by 2030. This will be achieved by using rPET, refillable bottles, and boosting collection...
The Spanish National Center for Food Technology and Safety (CNTA) has issued a report looking at the trends that shaped R&D in 2020 and how it expects these to define the sector in 2021.
Operations expert Victoria Cobos joined General Mills in early November, as the company grappled with the challenges of COVID-19 and the fast-approaching Brexit deadline. We caught up with her to learn what the Supply Chain Director’s priorities are moving...
Smart labels that use state of the art technology to give shoppers a host of new information about products could create a direct line of communication between consumers and producers and help foster a new era of trust between them, according to a new...
Updated guidance on fresh meat sell-by dates in the UK which abolish the arbitrary 10-day rule is good news for shoppers and restaurants who will waste less money, and good news for the environment which will benefit from a reduction in wasted food and...
New technology developed at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland enables the use of pectin-containing agricultural waste, such as citrus peel and sugar beet pulp, as raw material for bio-based polyethylene furanoate (PEF) plastics for replacing...
Total, Intraplás and Yoplait have announced they have successfully run a pilot test aiming at using certified chemically recycled polystyrene in yogurt pots.
Finnish coffee producer Meira, part of the Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group, has launched Vallilan Paahtimo, a new range that offers ‘a more sustainable cup, inside and out’. In partnership with packaging manufacturer Amcor, the line includes a bio-based...
