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A new decontamination technology will allow recycling packages having contained hazardous substances

After two years of researches, the European project LIFE EXTRUCLEAN has resulted in an innovative process in pilot plant to decontaminate plastic wastes having contained hazardous substances. Effectiveness of the

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Sustainable Convenience to Go – Hyacinth Range

Hyacinth, the first thermoformed handle pot range by Coveris, perfectly meets the increasing demand for nature-friendly packaging and healthy food to go. New from Coveris, Hyacinth is an exceptionally convenient

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All time-high steel packaging recycling in Europe

Recycling of steel packaging in Europe has reached a new all-time high of 76 per cent, announces APEAL, the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging. This record rate,

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Tesco aims to reduce waste

According to a company’s blog post, Tesco is introducing new compartmental packaging for its two portion chicken fillets, in a bid to reduce food waste. The new pack separates the

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Pacproject partners up with EcoTensil

Hamburg-based Pacproject has signed an agreement with US company EcoTensil to offer the European market an eco-friendly “on-the-go” utensil. Tim Bourne at pacproject recognized a gap in the European market

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Radical Waters Granted Additional Beverage Patents in the Philippines

The Philippines is the latest country to grant a beverage patent to Radical Waters for its pioneering Electrochemically Activated Water (ECA) application for use as a substitute to chemicals during CIP

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Over 40% of Sustainable Palm Oil Labels in Food Comes From Breakfast Cereals

    Over 40% of Sustainable Palm Oil Labels in Food Comes From Breakfast Cereals

According to Euromonitor’s new Ethical Labels data, in 2015 over 40% of sustainable palm oil labels in packaged food comes from breakfast cereals with only 1% from confectionery. Passport Ethical

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WCF launches new program

The World Cocoa Foundation has announced the launch of its new program designed to strengthen collaboration between the public and private sector to address the threat climate change poses to

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Swiss Cows Help Henniez to Produce Green Energy

    Swiss Cows Help Henniez to Produce Green Energy

Nestlé Waters has opened Switzerland’s largest agricultural biogas production facility. The Valbroye plant will provide renewable energy for the nearby Henniez bottled water plant and the Swiss power grid, as well

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Union and Climeworks are joining forces in CAPDrinks project

Funded by the Eurostars programme a project between Swiss company Climeworks and Danish Union Engineering is taking shape. The objective of the proposed project is to develop a standardized, competitive, low

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Positive Response to RSPO Certified Sustainable, Traceable Certificates Down to Mill Level

    Positive Response to RSPO Certified Sustainable, Traceable Certificates Down to Mill Level

Buyers of palm oil can now choose to support specific, named producers with GreenPalm certificates, which now include the name, address and GPS location of the sustainably certified mill trading

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Dawn Meats Produces Billionth Irish Beef Burger For McDonald’s

    Dawn Meats Produces Billionth Irish Beef Burger For McDonald’s

Irish group Dawn Meats has produced its billionth beef burger at its production site at Carroll’s Cross in Waterford, which was opened in June 2012, for casual dining giant McDonald’s.

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Backing the First Global Standard to Fight Food Waste

    Backing the First Global Standard to Fight Food Waste

Nestlé has played a key role in developing the first global standard to help companies and governments reduce food loss and waste. Food loss and waste costs the global economy

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Tetra Pak Commits to 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030

    Tetra Pak Commits to 100% Renewable Electricity by 2030

Tetra Pak has joined RE100, committing to increase its use of renewable electricity from 20% today to 100% across all global operations by 2030. The announcement was made at the

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Another Green Milestone For Muntons

    Another Green Milestone For Muntons

Following the unveiling of its £5.4 million anaerobic digestion plant in 2015, Stowmarket-based Muntons has further improved its environmental credentials by achieving zero waste to landfill. Muntons is a leading

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Nestlé supports waste initiative

The global Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard has been launched in Copenhagen, Denmark at the 3GF (Global Green Growth Forum) summit. For the last three years, Nestlé

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Mondelez International Strengthens Efforts to Address Child Labour in Cocoa Production

    Mondelez International Strengthens Efforts to Address Child Labour in Cocoa Production

Embode, a human rights consultancy, has published the results of two independent assessments of child protection in the cocoa sector in Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana. Mondelēz International commissioned these assessments

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Pioneering Cod Sustainability Agreement Reached

    Pioneering Cod Sustainability Agreement Reached

An industry group of global fishing stakeholders, including the catching sector, processors , retailers and foodservice, have come together to help further protect the marine environment in the Barents and

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Craft brewery’s edible six pack rings

Most plastic beer six‐pack rings end up in our oceans and pose a serious threat to wildlife. Saltwater Brewery together with WeBelievers has designed, tested and prototyped the first ever

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Powering Mars UK With Wind

    Powering Mars UK With Wind

The energy it takes to make MARS® bars, WHISKAS® cat food, EXTRA® gum and UNCLE BEN’S® rice in the UK is now provided by a new wind farm in Moy,

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Sainsbury’s Makes British Lamb Commitment

    Sainsbury’s Makes British Lamb Commitment

Sainsbury’s has committed to source 100% British lamb by 1st July. Despite the wet and cold spring, the UK retailer is working with its farmers to increase the availability of

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Norwegian researchers develop plant-based food packaging

As part of an EU project, researchers from SINTEF Materials and Chemistry have developed four packaging prototypes made of polyactic acid (PLA) and bio-polyethylene terephthalate (PET). The NanoBarrier project aims

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Glenmorangie Appoints Aquabio to Design and Build New Wastewater Treatment Plant

  Glenmorangie Appoints Aquabio to Design and Build New Wastewater Treatment Plant

As part of its major programme of environmental improvement, The Glenmorangie Company has nominated water treatment specialist Aquabio, to design and

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Tesco – Leading on Sustainable Seafood

  Tesco – Leading on Sustainable Seafood

Tesco has announced a number of measures which will see it source even more of the seafood it sells in

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Marel Poultry Uses Innovation to Tackle Topical Issues

  Marel Poultry Uses Innovation to Tackle Topical Issues

Poultry producers are facing new challenges all the time. Key current issues are hygiene, food safety, sustainability and satisfying ever

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Aquabio to Build Leading Edge Plant For Bakkavor’s Cucina Sano

  Aquabio to Build Leading Edge Plant For Bakkavor’s Cucina Sano

To help achieve its sustainability goals, Bakkavor has appointed waste water treatment specialist Aquabio to design and construct a state-of-the-art

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Green Energy From First Milk Cheese

  Green Energy From First Milk Cheese

Clearfleau, a leading British provider of on-site treatment solutions for the food and beverage sector, is commissioning its most complex

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Byworth Receives a Queen’s Award For Enterprise

  Byworth Receives a Queen’s Award For Enterprise

Byworth Boilers has been named a winner of the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation. The UK’s highest accolade for

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Report: Market for chitosan to reach $1.5bn by 2022

Grand View Research new report forecasts a growth in the global market for the bio-polymer obtained from the shells of

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Sonoco & Vegeplast lauch new eco-friendly packaging

Global packaging products and services provider Sonoco has entered a strategic partnership with French manufacturer of bioplastic Vegeplast to launch

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Palsgaard reaffirms commitment to CO2-neutrality

Food ingredients manufacturer Palsgaard has revealed that it achieved CO2-neutrality at its Danish plant during 2015, as it reconfirms plans

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Starbucks offers discount in support of anti-waste campaign

Starbucks will offer a 50p discount to customers if they bring in their own cup, in response to the publicity

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Scottish Pelagic Fish Group Committed to a Sustainable Future

  Scottish Pelagic Fish Group Committed to a Sustainable Future

The Scottish Pelagic Sustainability Group (SPSG), which represents those involved in the catching, processing and marketing of herring, mackerel and

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Aquabio to Build Leading Edge Plant For Bakkavor’s Cucina Sano

  Aquabio to Build Leading Edge Plant For Bakkavor’s Cucina Sano

To help achieve its sustainability goals, Bakkavor Group, the UK’s leading manufacturer of fresh prepared foods, has appointed waste water

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A new recycling method for fresh fish boxes allows to obtain insulations for construction

The project EPS-FISH to recycle expanded polystyrene wastes from fresh fish packages finished in late December 2015 with good results.

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Study: implications of banning GMOs

Higher food prices, a significant boost in greenhouse gas emissions due to land use change and major loss of forest

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Palsgaard broadens sustainable palm offering

After having supplied sustainable palm-based emulsifiers for some years, Palsgaard has announced it is now also able to deliver a

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Roberts PolyPro Enhances Packaging Performance

  Roberts PolyPro Enhances Packaging Performance

Roberts PolyPro manufactures and designs innovative plastic components that enhance packaging performance. The world’s largest consumer companies depend on Roberts

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Seaweed global standard to be created

The Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) and Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) have announced that they are working together to create a

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Hershey supports Cote d’Ivoire farmers

Hershey has partnered with Blommer Chocolate and Olam Cocoa to build a health centre in Cote d’Ivoire. The company also

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Arla Foods Commits to Investments in Nigerian Dairy Production

  Arla Foods Commits to Investments in Nigerian Dairy Production

Arla Foods has officially committed to investing in local dairy production in Nigeria and to sharing knowledge about agricultural practices and

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Mondelez International Reports Strong Progress in Cocoa Life Sustainability Program

  Mondelez International Reports Strong Progress in Cocoa Life Sustainability Program

Mondelēz International has published the first progress report on its Cocoa Life sustainability program, which highlights the wide-ranging impact and

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Eco-friendly packaging material could double food shelf-life

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed an environmentally-friendly food packaging material that is free from chemical

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GreenPalm certificates: Traceable back to individual certified oil palm mills

GreenPalm, the certificate trading system that supports sustainable oil palm production, has introduced certificate traceability back to the individual originating

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Cargill Enhances Traceability For Premium Payments to Cocoa Farmers – €14 Million Paid in 2015

  Cargill Enhances Traceability For Premium Payments to Cocoa Farmers – €14 Million Paid in 2015

In 2015, cocoa farmers in Côte d’Ivoire have received over €7 million in premium payments under the Cargill Cocoa Promise,

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IPN-QuadCore – Delivering Enhanced Fire and Thermal Performance From Insulated Panels

Once upon a time, strong environmental ratings for a building were considered nice-to-haves – the preserve of clients with big

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Over 600 Unilever Sites Have Now Eliminated Waste to Landfill

  Over 600 Unilever Sites Have Now Eliminated Waste to Landfill

Unilever has reached a new industry-leading achievement of sending zero non-hazardous waste to landfill across more than 600 sites, in

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Tesco Extends Additional Financial Support For UK Dairy Farmers

  Tesco Extends Additional Financial Support For UK Dairy Farmers

As the wintry weather continues to take hold, Tesco has announced it will extend its support for British dairy farmers. Six

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Nestlé and First Milk Launch Unique Programme to Develop Next Generation of Dairy leaders

  Nestlé and First Milk Launch Unique Programme to Develop Next Generation of Dairy leaders

Nestlé and First Milk, the UK dairy farmers co-operative, have launched the Next Generation Dairy Leaders Programme, a scheme for

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Top Green Awards For Produce World

  Top Green Awards For Produce World

Five of Produce World’s sites have received accreditation from the national green scheme Investors in Environment (iiE), and the English

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SeaWeb Announces Winners of 2016 Seafood Champion Awards

  SeaWeb Announces Winners of 2016 Seafood Champion Awards

Seafood leaders chose a retail executive who set the bar for sustainable seafood in the United Kingdom, a Cornwall fisherman

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Nestlé Chief Joins Champions Coalition

  Nestlé Chief Joins Champions Coalition

Nestlé CEO Paul Bulcke has underlined the company’s commitment to reducing food loss and waste by joining a new coalition,

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Mondelez International to Source 100% Cage-Free Eggs in Europe by 2025

  Mondelez International to Source 100% Cage-Free Eggs in Europe by 2025

Mondelēz International has announced it will fully transition to using cage-free eggs in the United States and Canada by 2020

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Feel Confident in Your Seafood Products

  Feel Confident in Your Seafood Products

Below are a number of responsible questions to ask about your fish. Sustainably sourced? Retailers and buyers need to be

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