Under the motto “Thirsty for Packaging”, the Model Young Package competition is now looking for creative and innovative beverage packaging: Refreshing, sustainable, unusual. Pupils, students and young designers aged 15 […]
The Design Age Institute of the Royal College of Art (RCA) and the member group University of the Third Age (u3a) have launched an official petition to the British government […]
Plastic packaging in the food trade contributes significantly to the increase in plastic waste. On the one hand, the films and boxes protect fruit and vegetables from rapid spoilage; on […]
Something is happening with packaging waste. At Ikea, much of whose furniture has to be unpacked, assembled and set up at home or in the office, the often ingenious packaging […]
Plastics are versatile, inexpensive materials. For many years, they were considered progressive on account of their properties and design possibilities. Now, however, plastic has become the epitome of today’s linear […]
Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the impact of some products on the planet and are making purchasing choices based on sustainability factors. Producing packaging for liquid laundry detergent, shampoo […]
Jonna Breitenhuber, who graduated from Berlin University of the Arts in 2019 with a master’s in product design, was working as a packaging designer for cosmetic products when she became […]
Coca-Cola has set a goal of making all their packaging suitable for collection and subsequent recycling or refilling by 2030. In order to take the next step towards the company’s […]
In times of social distancing and repeated lockdowns, the first thing that booms is online shopping. The consequences can be seen in such things as the growing volumes of waste […]
New packaging materials are attracting more and more attention in the effort to reduce plastic waste and establish a circular economy – “particularly as the goals of the European Strategy […]
REWE is the first food retailer in Germany to offer a free takeaway-and-return system for salad bar utensils. Its cooperating partner is Cologne start-up Vytal, which operates a deposit-free, digital […]
In cooperation with Tesco as its British retail partner, the “zero-waste” shopping platform Loop has officially launched its pilot e-commerce programme for the UK. Customers can order a wide range […]
He was the first and, so far, the only designer to receive the National Medal of Arts, the greatest award for an American artist. It was presented to him by […]
BIOnTop EU project. Sustainable packaging concepts made with organic materials Packaging waste in general, but particularly the plastic waste from food packaging, is seen by consumers with an increasingly critical […]
Paper not plastic: innovative disposable packaging for a range of food A new solution for portion packs has been created with the TPU paper-form, fill and seal machine from Syntegon […]