Australians will now have access to recycling instructions on qualifying paper cups, thanks to a recent partnership between the APCO's ARL program with paper cup recycling program Simply Cups.

Revenue at Pro-Pac rose by five per cent in the quarter to December 31, driven by new flexibles customers, in what the company said continued to be a challenging market.

The crowd gathered for the opening of the upgraded soft plastics recycling line at Close the Loop's Reservoir facility speaks volumes for the milestone this marks for finding a solution for hard-to-recycle materials.

Chobani Australia has cut the plastic content by almost half in the packaging for its Gippsland Dairy 160g stirred yoghurt products, by removing the black plastic lid and plastic spoon-in-lid.  

CHEP has been certified for the third year as a Top Employer in Australia by the Top Employers Institute, and is among 17 organisations to achieve Global Top Employer certification.

VicReturn has appointed sustainability specialist Freya Marsden as chair of its board of directors, on the strength of her vast industry experience and expertise as an economist across a range of sectors.

Visy has acquired Packsize Australia and New Zealand. Operating under ‘Packsize enabled by Visy’, the acquisition gives Visy exclusive distribution rights for Packsize’s technology and solutions, providing right sized boxes on demand. Packsize technology will be on show at APPEX 2024.

Food delivery service Uber Eats launched its $13m fund and multi-year partnership with Planet Ark in Sydney this week, a collaboration it says is designed to help restaurants on the platform adopt more sustainable packaging options.

Planet Protector Group has closed a $12 million Series A capital raise led by the Mindaroo Foundation and the Victorian State Government, together with a cohort of other Singaporean-based impact investors. The company behind Woolpack is now poised to scale and expand into new verticals.

US-based packaging company TricorBraun is firmly on the acquisition trail in Australia, now expanding its footprint to Western Australia with its latest purchase of Perth-based Plas-Pak WA.

'We’re not just a manufacturing company – diverting material away from landfill is at the heart of what we do,' says Visy CEO Mark de Wit, as the company steps in to buy ACP's assets.

The latest round of the WorldStar Packaging Awards has seen Australian and New Zealand companies receive the third highest number of wins in the world, just behind Japan and Germany.

WPO has revealed the 214 winners of its global packaging competition, the WorldStar Packaging Awards 2024, with Australia and New Zealand coming up third overall in countries by winners.

Raphael Geminder’s improved offer price through his Kin Group to Pact shareholders has seen his stake surge to 85 per cent, and he is now on track to gain full control of the business.

BioPak will undergo what it is calling a “historic expansion” into the Hong Kong market in an effort to help the industry switch to sustainable alternatives across the region.

Industry has paid tribute to Tom Lusch, founder of multiple award-winning Platypus Print Packaging, which he built from scratch to become the biggest folding carton printer in Queensland.