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Berry Global and Mars Announce Packaging with 100% Recycled Content

Stuart Mitchell

Berry Global Group, Inc. collaborated with snacks and treats leader Mars to transition its pantry jars for M&M’S®, SKITTLES® and STARBURST® brands to 100% recycled plastic packaging, exclusive of jar lids. This achievement advances the ongoing collaboration between Berry and Mars to develop packaging made with recycled content, and builds on a previous launch of the pantry jars with 15% recycled plastic in 2022. The updated jars are now rolling out across the country. The pantry jars are widely recyclable and come in three sizes: 60-, 81- and 87-ounces. This…

Berry incorporates 30% PCR content into its NorDiVent® Dry Packaging Solution to Deliver Sustainability Benefits While Maintaining Marlon’s Mortar Quality

Stuart Mitchell

Berry Global’s NorDiVent® Form-Fill-Seal (FFS) film is playing a key role in helping Danish dry mortar specialist Marlon meet its sustainable packaging goals. Marlon is dedicated to leading the way in sustainability within the construction materials sector, focusing on reducing its carbon footprint, enhancing energy efficiency, and promoting responsible sourcing. By working in partnership with Berry, Marlon has been able to switch from NorDiVent bags made from 100% virgin plastic to a version containing 30% post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic. Alongside this, the film has also been successfully downgauged by 7%…

2/3 of digital content creators do not check their facts before sharing, but want to learn how to do so

Stuart Mitchell

At a time when digital content creators have become a major source of information for people, a UNESCO survey published today reveals that 62% do not carry out rigorous and systematic fact-checking of information prior to sharing it. But 73% express the wish to be trained to do so. UNESCO is launching this month the very first global course to address this, with more than 9,000 participants from 160 countries already registered to participate. Digital content creators have acquired an important place in the information ecosystem, engaging millions of people…

Berry Global and T2 Join Forces to Deliver PE Bags With 50% Recycled Plastic Content

Stuart Mitchell

A collaboration between Berry Global and T2 Maschinenbau is highlighting the possibilities of recycled plastic content in Single Wound Sheet (SWS) films, used to make PE bags for a wide range of end applications including agriculture, horticulture, chemicals, construction, and consumer and industrial products. The two companies displayed their efforts at Fachpack 2024, where T2 exhibited a continuously operating Vertical Form Fill Seal (VFFS) packaging machine, with an integrated double belt scale, using SWS film from Berry that incorporates 50 per cent recycled plastic content from Berry’s range of Sustane™ Recycled Content.…

Baby Boomers’ shift to digital content accelerates but brands are failing to keep up

Stuart Mitchell

Baby Boomers are the world’s wealthiest generation, however, brands are failing to keep up with their increasingly digital media habits, according to WARC Media’s latest Global Advertising Trends report, ‘Baby Boomers’ big digital shift’, released recently. Baby Boomers, defined for this report as adults born between 1946 and 1964, i.e. those aged between 60 and 78 today, do not spend ever-greater amounts of time on social platforms. Instead, older generations are switching from offline versions of content media to their online extensions – be it connected TV or online press.…