Does it make sense to use biodegradable, compostable plastics?
SunChips’ conversion from a 33% PLA structure last year to a 100% compostable PLA structure in 2010, resulted in the following claim, prominently printed on the front of the SunChips […]
Tag Archives: recycling
SABMiller’s Imitation of a Frosty Beer Glass
The World Cup Football tournament in South Africa is on everybody’s mind. So South African Breweries Ltd. (SAB), SABMiller plc’s subsidiary in South Africa, decided to take as much advantage […]
Renewing PET – New Types of Environmentally Sustainable Plastics
In the USA more than 13 billion plastic bottles are disposed of each year. Most plastic beverage bottles are made from PET. After being emptied and hopefully tossed in the […]
WalMart Brasil’s Next Step in the “Green World”
WalMart, one of the most controversial companies in the world, has set its next step in the world of sustainability and ‘greenness’. Well, in Brazil that is. Amazing, as Brazil […]
The 2009 Packaging ‘Goofies’ From Around The World
Are the packages I describe here, the result of some idiotic, stupid and incompetent designers? No, not at all, on the contrary. I just used the word ‘goofy’ to catch […]
A Touch of Class Enters the Boxed Wine Category
In the beverage alcohol market it is wine which is the primary growth driver, while at the same time the wine industry’s low margins and commodity market dynamics have made […]
Brazil’s small-scale business model for recycling post-consumer Tetra Paks
The time between Christmas and New Year’s Eve is typically a period when people look back and forward and decide what they will do differently in the year to come. […]
The Promising Potential of Bio-based Plastics (part 2)
As promised in my previous article I continue my review of the study “Product overviews and market projection of emerging bio-based plastics”, carried out by scientists of the Copernicus Institute […]
Fancy Packaging Ideas
After my last post, which highlighted a non-glamorous item, it is time to enliven this blog a bit. Worldwide industrial designers come up with new packaging ideas, a large part […]
CupCan and CreaTin – Creative Design in Steel Cans
When the Institute of Medicine (IOM) called in its 2009 report “School Meals” for increasing the amount and variety of fruits, vegetables and whole grains, along with reducing saturated fat […]
