packaging

Mars Wrigley embraces paper packaging

Mars Wrigley Australia has announced a step forward in its sustainability journey by transitioning all Australian-made chocolate bars to a new paper-based packaging that can be recycled via kerbside recycling. Read More

mike.wheelerDecember 1, 2022, 8:21 amDecember 1, 2022

Australia, Industry News, News

AIP signs up to Australian Food Pact

The Australian Institute of Packaging (AIP) has announced that it has become a supporting signatory to the Australian Food Pact. The Australian Food Pact is a partnership of organisations that operate along the farm-to-fork food supply chain and represents a major step towards the country reaching its food waste reduction goal of 50 per cent going to landfill by 2030. Read More

mike.wheelerNovember 29, 2022, 10:27 amNovember 29, 2022

Industry News, Opinion

APCO announces winners of Industry Sector Awards

The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) has announced the winners of its 11 Industry Sector Awards, which celebrate industry leadership and innovation in sustainable packaging design. Read More

mike.wheelerNovember 17, 2022, 8:18 amNovember 17, 2022

Features, Online Subscription

Packaging design needs to go to the next level

Despite setting targets for 70 per cent of plastic packaging to be recycled or composted by 2025, and phasing out unnecessary single-use plastic packaging, a report by the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation
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mike.wheelerJune 28, 2022, 9:01 amJune 28, 2022

Features, Online Subscription

Review finds packaging regulation fails to drive change

Time is ticking to resolve the serious flaws that exist in the regime for managing packaging waste, a review of the National Environment Protection Measure (NEPM) for Used Packaging Materials (UPM), released
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mike.wheelerApril 26, 2022, 9:30 amApril 26, 2022

News, Opinion

APCO gets product stewardship go ahead

Australian Government has given the Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) its tick of approval as an accredited national product stewardship scheme working to ensure that Australia’s packaging can be recycled, reused and kept out of landfill.
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mike.wheelerFebruary 15, 2022, 8:41 amFebruary 15, 2022

News

New resource to scale up reusable packaging

Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO) has published Scaling Up Reusable Packaging, a new resource which outlines the importance of reuse and how businesses and users can benefit from reusable packaging models. Read More

mike.wheelerFebruary 10, 2022, 7:41 amFebruary 10, 2022

Packaging targets a failure says Boomerang Alliance

Almost all of Australia’s key packaging waste and recycling targets are on the path to failure, Jeff Angel, director of the Boomerang Alliance of 56 group, said after the release of a major review by the industry-based Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO). Read More

mike.wheelerNovember 25, 2021, 7:08 amNovember 25, 2021

ALDI confident of reaching plastic reduction goals by 2025

ALDI has removed almost 2,000 tonnes of plastic packaging and achieved a 10 per cent reduction across its fresh produce range in just one year.

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mike.wheelerOctober 26, 2021, 6:34 amOctober 26, 2021

Features, News

APCO to help dairy industry increase recycling capability

The Australian Packaging Covenant Organisation (APCO), in partnership with Dairy Australia and the Australian Dairy Products Federation, has published the Australian Dairy Sustainable Packaging Roadmap to 2025. This resource looks at the current state of play regarding sustainable packaging in the dairy industry and what needs to be done as the industry works towards achieving the 2025 National Packaging Targets. Read More

mike.wheelerOctober 21, 2021, 7:08 amOctober 21, 2021