Tag: plastic

Boxed Water Signs Deal with Zeeks Pizza to Reduce Plastic Pollution

Stuart Mitchell

Boxed Water Is Better®, a company that provides an alternative to plastic bottles by producing pure water in 100% recyclable cartons, today announced a new contract with Seattle-based Zeeks Pizza. Zeeks, a 16-store pizza chain based in Washington has taken on an initiative to ditch Dasani Water and its plastic bottles, replacing them with Boxed Water. In fact, today Zeeks removed all Coca Cola products from its delivery and in-store operations. “1,500 plastic bottles are produced every second, leading to eight million tons of plastic going into our oceans and…

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Tesco trials removing plastic from fruit and veg

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco has removed an extensive selection of plastic wrapped fruit and veg products from two of its stores. The retailer’s latest move toward sustainable packaging will trial removing packaged fruit and veg wherever a loose alternative exists. A total of forty five packaged foods will be taken out of stores in Watford and Swindon. Customers will see fruit and veg including varieties of apples, mushrooms, peppers, onions, bananas and avocados free from their packaging. This comes as a part of Tesco’s commitments to reduce the amount of packaging in its…

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Ribena Announces Next Green Moves After Saving 40,000 Tonnes Of Plastics Over 10 Years

Stuart Mitchell

One of the nation’s most loved drinks brands, Ribena, is celebrating over 10 years of making its bottles from 100% recycled plastic, also known as rPET. Ribena’s use of rPET has prevented 40,000 tonnes of additional plastic from being produced – the equivalent weight of around 30,000 Ford Fiestas. Ribena was the first UK soft drink brand to use 100% recycled plastic bottles – a move that was a major step forward for sustainable packaging. The brand is now introducing additional ways to make its packaging even more sustainable. Thebrand…

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Unilever to invest €100,000 in a crowdsourced solution as part of its drive to rethink plastic packaging

Stuart Mitchell

Unilever, manufacturer of leading household brands including Persil, CIF and Domestos, has announced that it will invest €100,000 in a new plastic-free laundry tablet. The crowdsourced innovation has the potential to replace single-use sachets of laundry powder, a popular format for laundry detergents in the developing world that is problematic in terms of plastic waste. The chosen idea was one of 10 new solutions to emerge from Unilever’s “Rethink Plastic” Hackathon, a one-day event that brought together Unilever teams with leading designers, innovators, venture capital and packaging experts. The Hackathon…

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Dow Announces New Actions to Support Global Efforts on Plastic Waste

Stuart Mitchell

Dow announced its intention to further invest and develop new global initiatives and solutions that work to prevent and remediate plastic waste in the environment. The initiatives, announced in conjunction with the recent Our Ocean Conference in Bali, Indonesia, include Dow’s commitment to join several other major global brands to become a founding investor in Circulate Capital’s $100 million effort to incubate and finance companies and infrastructure that prevent waste in oceans. Dow also announced at the Conference that it intends to donate an additional $1 million to Ocean Conservancy…

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