Tag: Canopy

Ben & Jerry’s Joins Initiative to Ensure Packaging Doesn’t Come at the Expense of World’s Vital Forests

Stuart Mitchell

On World Rainforest Day, illus-tree-ous ice cream company Ben & Jerry’s has made an unbe-LEAF-able announcement. Ben & Jerry’s has become the first food brand in the Pack4Good initiative — committing to ensure its paper packaging does not come at the expense of the world’s most vital forest ecosystems. Instead, the company will prioritize lower impact solutions focused on reducing waste and employing Next Generation innovation in its packaging. The world’s forests are being logged at an alarming rate — three billion trees a year go into the paper packaging…

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Largest Database for Recycled and Next Gen Paper and Packaging Launched

Stuart Mitchell

The world’s largest compilation of recycled and NextGen paper and packaging options available to brands and companies — the EcoPaper Database — has just been updated and expanded. This integral resource comes at a vital time as the impact of paper packaging on the world’s forests, climate, and biodiversity continues to grow. The EcoPaper Database (EPD), created by international environmental non-profit Canopy, is a listing of over 1,100 paper and paper packaging options available to help businesses reduce their impact on Ancient and Endangered Forests. The much-anticipated update of the…

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New Year Brings New Commitments To Protect World’s Forests

Stuart Mitchell

35 brands, three producers, and two innovators from around the globe, including online fashion and lifestyle platform Zalando, fashion brands Mango, ba&sh, and Ardene, and luxury shoe brand Nicholas Kirkwood have committed to revolutionizing their packaging supply chains to protect vital forests all over the planet. The brands are joining environmental organization Canopy’s Pack4Good initiative. Pack4Good works with global brands and innovators to address the massive and growing forest footprint of paper packaging. Every year three billion trees, an area of forest about the size of Germany, are cut down…

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New Campaign Shows That Packaging and The Fashion Industry Can Go ‘Circular Chic’ Today

Stuart Mitchell

COP26 was all about promises, this week is all about tangible, game-changing solutions in action. Environmental NGO Canopy, has launched their Circular Chic campaign to showcase real-life, low carbon alternatives for fashion fabrics, like viscose and rayon, and paper packaging, all of which are too often made by logging vital, high carbon forests. The campaign was born out of a necessity to raise awareness of the urgent need to transform the fashion and packaging industry’s supply chains. Currently, these supply chains are responsible for cutting down 3.2 billion trees a…

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Flipkart and Myntra Join Hands with Canopy to Advance Sustainability Efforts and Conserve Forests

Stuart Mitchell

Flipkart Group, India’s homegrown consumer internet ecosystem including Flipkart, and Myntra, one of India’s leading fashion and lifestyle destinations, announcing its commitment to responsible sourcing of sustainable packaging and man-made cellulosic fibers in collaboration with not-for-profit environmental organisation Canopy.  Flipkart and Myntra recognise the role of the world’s forests in maintaining climate stability, preserving biodiversity, and protecting the rights of Indigenous communities. The companies have joined Canopy’s Pack4Good and CanopyStyle initiatives to extend their sustainability commitment to move towards sustainable packaging and material sourcing. Recently, they also announced a shift…

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