Singaporean startup creates the ultimate alt-plastic food containers
Alterpacks uses food thrown out by manufacturers to create food containers that can go back into the ecosystem.
Kiwi cafes now have ‘an Udder Way’ to cut out single-use bottles: 18-litre milk kegs
The kegs have an estimated lifespan of eight years, and once past their use-by date can be recycled and turned into new kegs.
GoneShells: A potato-based bottle that you can peel, eat, compost or dissolve
Anna Glansén, the founder of Tomorrow Machine, explained that the potato-based bottle is the company’s attempt to protect food but make its packaging disappear after use.
Great Wrap creates a potato peel-based cling film alternative
The company has extracted starch from potato peels and combined it with used cooking oil and a starchy root vegetable.
Swiss startup creates edible juice bottles
Swedish design studio Tomorrow Machine has developed a biodegradable juice bottle made from potato starch that can be peeled and eaten like fruit skin, dissolved in liquid, or composted.
Bega Group to adopt recycled plastic bottles across all beverages
Customers can already find the 1.5-litre bottles of the Juice Brothers, Dare Iced Coffee, Big M, and Dairy Farmers Classic at shops.
LVMH to improve sustainable packaging across beauty brands
By the end of this year, LVMH’s perfume packaging will include both bio-based and circular Surlyn.
Australia’s first beverage carton recycling facility opens in NSW
The new facility is a collaboration between Beverage Cartons and the Environment (Grace), SaveBoard, and its partner Freightways.
Watsons Philippines opens its second refilling station, at The Block SM City
The refill stations are part of the company’s initiatives to encourage consumers to lead more sustainable lifestyles by offering them options to reuse their plastic bottles instead of putting them to waste.
Nestle Professional partners with 7-Eleven to launch recyclable cups
Nestle has invested $2.5 million into its Smithtown factory in New South Wales to produce the new cups.
London startup develops styrofoam alternative from feathers
The product, dubbed Pluumo, is made using surplus feathers from down and poultry.
Sprite, Fresca and Seagram’s create music from recycling sounds
“A great sample doesn’t have to come from other music, it just has to make you move.”
8 innovative packaging alternatives to plastic
Don’t fret; there is still much hope, thanks to scientists and researchers who tirelessly work non-stop to find solutions to pollution.
Hunt and Brew adopts recycled packaging of white milk and cold brew
The plastic bottles are re-made at Australasia’s largest end-to-end PET recycling facilities based in NSW, and a second plant due to open this week in Victoria.
Singapore scientists create batteries made from waste paper
The researchers carbonise the paper by exposing it to high temperatures. Then, the team transforms the fibres from the paper into electrodes, which can put to use in rechargeable batteries that can power smartphones or electric cars.