PET

Airline upcycles 4 million plastic bottles

AFTER SIX months of research and design, Virgin Atlantic has today revealed amenity kits made of 100% recycled material.                   The kits have been designed with sustainability in mind. They’re made from recycled PET (rPET) material which smashes, melts, polymerizes and spins recycled plastic bottles into a [...]

The Throwaway Industry? Footprint Forum: 27 May 2010

An expert panel assembled for the third Footprint Forum at Pret A Manager’s London headquarter to discuss the environmental impact of packaging in the foodservice supply chain and some of the innovations and initiatives being implemented to counter this. Delegates, including operators, suppliers and distributors, heard panellists acknowledge that whilst cutting down on packaging, food [...]