Consumers want to purchase products that are healthy and taste good with the added advantage of being eco-friendly — from the ingredients to the packaging. More and more Grocery Shoppers are being more thoughtful about the products they buy and the type of packaging these products come in. The insights below identify some actions consumers are taking to lead a more sustainable lifestyle.
see the infographic at: http://evergreenpackaging.com/wp-content/uploads/EP-SmartBrief-Ad-3_FINAL9.19.17.pdf
Related Posts
A group of major packaging manufacturers, including International Paper and Packaging Corporation of America, has been hit with a federal antitrust lawsuit alleging a coordinated scheme to inflate prices for containerboard materials used in products like cardboard boxes and retail displays.
According to Reuters, the lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, claims the defendants orchestrated a series of parallel price increases that began in late 2020 and collectively raised costs by approximately 30%. The suit was brought by Artuso Pastry Foods Corp, a Mt. Vernon, New York-based business, which is seeking to represent a nationwide class of buyers that may include hundreds of thousands of businesses.
The complaint targets several major industry players, including Georgia-Pacific, Greif, Smurfit Westrock, and Graphic Packaging, in addition to International Paper and Packaging Corporation of America. Per Reuters, the lawsuit accuses these companies of implementing “numerous unprecedented and unjustified price increases,” often in near-perfect synchrony, which it says constitutes a violation of U.S. antitrust law.
Second Quarter Highlights and other notable items: *Net sales of $5.3 billion *Net loss of $2.0 billion, included a $1.9 billion pre-tax, non-cash goodwill impairment and $445 million of pre-tax restructuring and other costs; Adjusted Net Income of $198 million *Results negatively impacted by $58 million due to economic downtime, as well as a $40 million increase in non-cash pension costs year-over-year; our U.S. qualified and non-qualified pension plans remain overfunded *Loss per diluted share of $7.85 and Adjusted Earnings per Diluted Share of $0.77
Metsä Group is cooperating with Fiskars Group on a brand new fibre-based gift packaging. The innovative Muoto 3D inner packaging and a box made of Metsä Board’s folding boxboard encase Fiskars ReNew scissors made of recycled material. Pure, safe, sustainable, easy to use and recyclable. That is what the plastic-free Muoto 3D fibre packaging, originating in northern forests and set to revolutionise packaging, is all about. Renewable and sustainably grown Finnish wood is the main raw material of the Muoto 3D fibre packaging. The packaging is made of wet wood-fibre pulp in Äänekoski, at Metsä Group’s and Valmet’s joint demo plant.