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Liverpool supporters found an unexpectedly lucrative sideline during their Champions League trip to Austria, after LASK’s deposit system for reusable drinking cups turned discarded beer into cash.
Amcor has helped a West Yorkshire primary school reopen a much-used outdoor learning route by replacing a failing timber boardwalk with one made from recycled plastic.
Sidel is claiming its ambient-temperature stretch-film system can cut film consumption by more than half and energy demand by over 90% while packaging up to 80 multipacks a minute.
The RECOUP Plastics Assembly 2026 brought together industry leaders, policymakers, academics and sustainability experts to explore the practical actions needed to accelerate the transition to a circular plastics economy.
The winners of the inaugural Undergraduate Beverage Can Design competition have been announced, recognising the creativity and ambition of the next generation of packaging designers.
The UK will tighten the way it treats recycled plastic under the Plastic Packaging Tax, ending the current allowance for pre-consumer waste to count towards the 30% recycled-content threshold and bringing chemically recycled material under a new mass balance framework.
UK regulators have intervened in the packaging recycling evidence market after tighter accreditation and enforcement rules led to reduced availability of Packaging Waste Recycling Notes (PRNs) and Packaging Waste Export Recycling Notes (PERNs).
A new report assessing 200 UK businesses and 1,500 consumers has revealed how a growing number of circular living strategies are helping many to improve their financial performance and mitigate against future uncertainties linked to climate change.
International Paper is thought to be weighing a possible sale of its EMEA packaging division after receiving unsolicited approaches, even as it continues to prepare a separate spin-off of the business.
Suntory has published its first climate transition plan, setting out how it intends to reduce emissions across its business and supply chain while protecting operations from rising climate risks.
More than 200 Co-op stores are rolling out Coffee pod recycling points following a trial with Podback, the coffee pod recycling service.
With Government recently announcing their Regulatory Position Statement on recycling obligations for packaging producers in 2026, Robbie Staniforth, chief policy and impact officer, Ecosurety, discusses implications for the future of packaging recycling.
Heidelberg UK has appointed Neil Fletcher as interim managing director and new sales and product director effective 2 November 2026.
Go-Pak Group has appointed a new ESG and sustainability manager to lead its net zero strategy.
Polytag’s Ecotrace Programme has been named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026, recognising its role in helping brands gain greater visibility of what happens to their packaging after use.
