Month: September 2023

Berry Global’s Recycled Heinz Pack ‘Snaps’ up Environmental Packaging Award

Stuart Mitchell

The iconic Heinz ‘Snap Pot’ – manufactured by Berry Global – has added to its already impressive trophy cabinet after winning a Gold award at the Environmental Packaging Awards. Entered into the Ambient Food category by brand owner Kraft Heinz, the concept was selected by judges based on the Snap Pot’s successful switch to a version made with 39% recycled plastic.First launched in 2008, the Snap Pot has been redeveloped to reflect advances in post-consumer recycled content for food packaging and the drive by supermarkets and end users for more…

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Hubbub marks three years of Food Connect

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental charity Hubbub is marking three years of Food Connect, a food redistribution service that works with businesses to deliver good quality surplus food to community fridges and groups to share.  Since its launch in 2020, more than 1,000 tonnes of food have been redistributed through the service across Milton Keynes and London, the equivalent of over 2.5 million meals. Hubbub set up Food Connect to create a simpler donation experience for food businesses and to share the small amounts of surplus that often go to waste to local community…

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Xact helps grocery retailers reduce plastic packaging

Stuart Mitchell

Leading UK packaging specialist Xact has launched two new state-of-the-art packaging solutions that enable retailers to reduce the amount of plastic packaging that they use for fresh produce. The Rev Elephant – designed specifically for cartonboard punnets with wings – and the Rev Condor, developed for taping bunches of loose produce will enable grocery retailers to remove millions of pieces of single use plastic from their supply chains every year. More sustainable fresh food packaging One major UK retailer has already recognised the benefits of the Rev Elephant – a…

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The Wildlife Trusts announces new £6m fund to support rewilding projects across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

The Wildlife Trusts has announced a new £6m fund to support rewilding projects across the UK. The programme, entitled ‘Transforming Nature’s Recovery’, has been designed to help support UK nature and reverse declines in wildlife. This comes as the latest State of Nature report unveiled that a staggering 40% of UK species are declining and 15% of British wildlife are threatened with extinction. As the British Trust for Ornithology has reported, the number of wild birds in Britain has declined by 73 million over the past 50 years. With birds being an…

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Global advertising spend to top $1trn for first time next year

Stuart Mitchell

A new study from WARC, the experts in marketing effectiveness, has found that global advertising spend is on course to grow 4.4% this year and a further 8.2% in 2024, by when expenditure will have topped $1trn for the first time. The new analysis, published today, for the first time combines data from WARC’s proprietary survey of media owners, industry bodies, ad agencies and research organisations in 100 markets worldwide with advertising revenue data from 40 of the largest media owners to offer a complete picture of advertising trade. The…

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