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10 February 2026 | By Ben Cornwell
Brazilian researchers create biodegradable, collagen-based packaging film from tambatinga fish skin, offering plastic alternative and adding value to aquaculture waste streams.
8 December 2011 | By Diageo
Diageo has taken a further step to becoming a truly sustainable business with the publication of our first Sustainable Packaging Guidelines...
22 October 2025 | By Ben Cornwell
Ahead of the festive season, Mondelēz and Tesco are trialling 300,000 Cadbury Heroes paper tubs in a major sustainable packaging initiative.
13 October 2025 | By Ian Westcott
The global eco-friendly food packaging market is forecast to double in value by 2032, driven by rising demand for sustainable, recyclable and biodegradable materials across the food and beverage industry.
28 June 2017 | By New Food, Paul Foulkes-Arellano
A Plastic Planet, a grassroots UK-based organisation with a single aim – a Plastic Free Aisle in supermarkets - offers an insight into the necessity of sustainable packaging to fight food waste and pollution.
4 July 2025 | By Ben Cornwell
Nestlé and IBM Research unveil a generative AI tool designed to accelerate the discovery of sustainable high-barrier food packaging materials.
9 January 2026 | By Ben Cornwell
Sustainable packaging innovator Notpla returns to its roots as Imperial College London adopts seaweed-based alternatives to single-use plastics on campus.
21 October 2019 | By Sam Mehmet (New Food)
GlobalData’s 2019 Q3 consumer survey found that 71 percent of global consumers consider it ‘quite’ or ‘extremely’ important for product packaging to be made from sustainable or renewable sources.
1 May 2018 | By Dr Lizhe Wang, Biomaterial Scientist and Dr Joe P. Kerry, Head of the Food Packaging Group, Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University College Cork
As traditional food packaging materials show shortcomings in terms of their environmental pollution impact and in their manufacturing requirements for non-renewable resources, the need for alternative packaging materials and packaging formats is now required more than ever.
19 October 2017 | By George Smith (New Food)
A study on consumer trends has pegged sustainable packaging as one to watch as food manufacturers move into the new year.
12 June 2024 | By Grace Galler
Working with DS Smith Packaging, Jacob’s Cream Crackers reveals a new design that it claims has 78 percent less plastic per pack.
16 May 2025 | By Ben Cornwell
Marks & Spencer launches first sustainable paper tray for ready meals, testing the innovation on its Fiery Chicken Tikka Masala.
2 February 2023 | By Grace Galler, Grace Galler (New Food)
The Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment has called on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation to make further sustainable changes.
2 August 2018 | By Iqra Farooq (New Food)
Company says it has exceeded its target reduction of the weight of its global packaging by 50,000 metric tonnes.
5 July 2012 | By Louis Lindenberg, Wayne Daley
Focusing on packaging: the Unilever Sustainable Living Plan (Louis Lindenberg, Global Packaging Sustainability Director, Unilever) Next generation automation systems for food production (Wayne Daley, Principal Research Engineer, Georgia Tech Research Institute)
