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Green packaging

Sweet things may come in pretty packages… but just how environmentally friendly is all that wrapping? Manufacturers can considerably lighten a product’s footprint by reducing the layers of packaging, encouraging recycling, and investigating the use of greener materials and newly developed technologies.

Tic Tac turns it back on polystyrene in recycle push

11-Jun-2009 - In a bid to play up sustainability in its operations Ferrero is relaunching its Tic Tic line of packaged mints in the US to make use of more readily recyclable materials.

Packager taking innovation inspiration from sweet wrapper reductions

04-Jun-2009 - As environmental groups and consumers call for less waste and material use in candy wrappers, the confectionery industry still remains a key market for global packaging group Chesapeake as it contemplates life under a new financial structure.

Nestle aims for lorry reliance reduction with co-pack rethink

02-Jun-2009 - Nestle this week commences operations at a new UK contract packing site it claims will offer more environmentally friendly distribution of its confectionery brands in the country.

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