Western Australia has reached a new recycling milestone by saving 1.5 billion 10c containers from landfill through the Containers for Change deposit scheme.

A new pilot program by Pernod Ricard will see a QR code featured on all its brands in Europe to provide consumers with product information and promote responsible drinking.

Yes You Can has created a can-inspired advent calendar to celebrate Dry July, with packaging is made from E-flute and B-flute, and printed with environmentally-friendly EcoPure HPJ soy inks.

Diversey, provider of sustainable solutions for cleaning and hygiene products, is tackling the glass bottles shortage by developing a system to make recycling and reuse better and more sustainable.

The Beverage Packaging Design of the Year award recognises organisations that have designed innovative packaging and/or materials, within all drinks sectors. This year, Synlait won gold.

Riot Wine Co is reinventing the way Australians drink wine with founder Tom O’Donnell challenging the belief that quality wine comes from a bottle, through reinventing draught and canned beverages.

Opal, in partnership with Dan Murphy’s, has designed and created an Australian-made, 100 per cent recycled and recyclable wine box for the Dan Picked wine delivery subscription service.

Amcor Rigid Packaging has launched its PowerPost next-generation technology, which delivers a lighter and more sustainable bottle, on top of providing a better consumer experience.

Orora has succeeded in its grant application to support the planned construction of an oxygen-fuelled furnace at its glass manufacturing plant in Gawler, SA, receiving $12.5m under the MMI.

Australia's OFS and US-based The 5th Ingredient have signed a first-of-its-kind craft brewing partnership to help the companies expand in each other’s home markets.

In response to growth in demand for cans from craft beer and other beverage segments, Orora is investing $85 million to increase the can body production capacity at its Revesby, NSW site.

Australia’s largest wine company, Accolade Wines, has revealed a growing trend in the local market towards environmentally-friendly packaging, which it believes is transforming the global wine industry.

A drink importer that repeatedly failed to comply with NSW packaging legislation requirements is the first NSW business to be fined under the rules that govern the NSW CDS, Return and Earn.

As part of Coca-Cola EuroPacific's expansion of its Moorabbin plant, its Neverfail spring water bottling facility was relocated to a brownfield site, and engineering company Process Partners played a pivotal role.

Three contract filling companies, hailing from Western Australia, Victoria and South Australia, have combined to form Sanector, a company with extensive beverage packaging capability.

Sidel has launched its new PressureSAFE PET aerosol container design, which will give home and personal care brands the opportunity to offer more environmentally sustainable dispensing spray packaging.