Sustainability News
The International Aluminium Organisation of Aerosol Container Manufacturers (AEROBAL) has revealed the winners of the World Aluminium Aerosol Can Award 2021.
Gregor Spengler, AEROBAL’s secretary-general, said he was pleased to find that, despite the pandemic, the ‘innovative strength’ of the industry had not diminished at all.
The members of the international jury also witnessed this…
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MetalMatters, the industry-founded initiative encouraging householders to recycle their empty aerosols, foil, cans, trays, tubes and metal screw tops, has launched a new campaign.
The innovative programme will see MetalMatters work in close partnership with local authorities across the UK, engaging with residents via social media to communicate ‘targeted recycling messaging’.
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TUBEX has won a German Packaging Award in the sustainability category for its collaboration with Cien, a brand owned by supermarket giant Lidl.
Cien Pure & Fresh deodorant is the first aerosol deodorant in the world to be printed with natural ink. The print was the ‘last missing piece’ needed to manufacture the most sustainable monobloc aluminium aerosol can, according to Tubex.
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Ball Corporation and En+ Group’s metals segment have partnered to produce aerosols and other containers made from the ‘world’s lowest-carbon aluminium’.
The ultra-low inert anode carbon aluminium is one of several levers that Ball uses to significantly reduce the carbon footprint of its aluminium slugs, cans and bottles.
En+ is a mover in this ‘ground-breaking’ inert anode…
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Plastipak will receive green power from UK anaerobic digestion (AD) operator BioteCH4 through a new partnership to power one of its facilities.
Clean Tech, wholly owned by Plastipak, is a leading UK PET plastic re-processor, recycling more than 80,000 tonnes of post-consumer PET bottles and packaging per year, collected through the kerbside recycling system.
Based in Lincolnshire, UK,…
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Clean Earth’s Morgantown, West Virginia facility can now process and recycle aerosol cans under the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Aerosol Cans as Universal Waste Rule that has now come into effect in the state.
The Aerosol Cans as Universal Waste Rule allows aerosol can waste to be managed as universal waste under the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) hazardous…
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Coster has published its fourth Sustainability Report, highlighting the extensive work the company is undertaking to implement green initiatives.
Coster used the pandemic as a push to boost its efforts in sustainability. The report, prepared in compliance with GRI standards, presents the various initiatives, KPIs and targets which are important for the group in terms of sustainability and…
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The winners of the ADF Innovation Awards 2021 were revealed in a virtual ceremony on 22 June.
This year’s competition saw a total of 32 entries, which were diligently reviewed by 18 jury members. Jean Blottiere, secretary-general of the Comité Français des Aérosols, commented that despite the pandemic, the jury had succeeded in testing and discussing the products in-depth, and chosen…
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Trivium Packaging has released its inaugural sustainability report.
The report highlights Trivium’s sustainability activities implemented across its global operations, reinforces its unwavering commitment to tackling climate change by putting sustainability at the heart of its products and operations, and unveils its long-term sustainability strategy.
“Trivium’s leadership and board…
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Trivium Packaging has announced its commitment to the United Nations Global Compact Initiative (UNGC), the largest corporate responsibility initiative in the world.
By signing onto the initiative, Trivium is formally aligning its corporate value system with the Ten Principles of the UNGC and its four key themes on human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption.
Trivium has committed…
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Ahead of World Environment Day, Dove has launched a major forest restoration project.
The project is designed to protect and restore forests, protect the habitats of endangered species, and improve the livelihoods of 16,000 people who call North Sumatra, Indonesia, home.
In partnership with Conservation International and in support of its collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and…
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Steel packaging recycling in Europe has hit an all-time high of 84%, according to new figures.
Data from the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (APEAL) shows an increase of 1.5% in recycling, representing the sector’s ninth consecutive year of growth.
Alexis Van Maercke, secretary-general of APEAL, believes this strong recycling performance highlights steel as one of…
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Beiersdorf and Swiss packaging company Nussbaum have joined forces to produce aerosol cans made from 100% recycled aluminium.
After a year of development, the companies are producing the innovative aerosol packaging entirely out of used beverage cans. The first Beiersdorf products packaged in 100% post-consumer recycled aluminium will be rolled out on the market as early as the end of this…
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Over the last decade, the global aluminium aerosol can industry has achieved an average growth rate of around 3.5%.
According to the International Organisation of Aluminium Aerosol Container Manufacturers (AEROBAL), this ‘remarkable’ growth is due to the convincing functional, consumer-oriented, and environmental performance of aluminium aerosols. In other ‘voluminous’ end-use markets…
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Crown Holdings has issued an interim sustainability report to track its recent environmental, social and governance (ESG) accomplishments, and to offer insight into its future strategy.
Titled ‘Enduring Values, Continuous Progress’ the report highlights the completion of Crown’s first sustainability goals and its plan to raise the bar for future performance, based on the five pillars of…
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The Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) has appointed Tom Giddings as interim general manager.
Giddings, previously sustainability and public affairs manager, succeeds industry stalwart Rick Hindley, who is moving on to another senior role within the recycling sector.
Having joined Alupro in June 2020, Giddings has firmly positioned himself as a driving force within the…
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Tubex has teamed up with PreZero Pyral to form a closed loop in recycling post-consumer aluminium packaging.
Tubex and its slug supplier recently developed a patented alloy where the customer has the choice of up to 60% inclusion of recycled material in the slug. An aluminium slug is the primary material used to manufacture aluminium monobloc aerosol cans.
This collaboration with aluminium…
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Salvalco’s Evo-Valve Technology has been used by European brand, Rossmann, to be used within its own-brand deodorant.
From April this year, the technology will be used with Rossmann’s deodorant brand, Alterra. Rossman is the first major brand in Europe to utilise the Eco-Valve technology, which uses environmentally-friendly nitrogen propellant.
The company was keen to use Evo-Valve to…
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