Many dairy processors could make big savings by moving away from traditional methods for cleaning their pipework and choosing an environmentally friendly system called ‘ice pigging’, a patented technology offered by Aqualogy Environment.
Packaging coatings based on environmentally damaging petrochemicals could become a thing of the past, if a new plant-based food packaging coating takes off.
Packaging industry champions have defended its record on self-promotion and the environment in the face of criticism from experts in branding and consumer issues. The high-profile legal threat to Sainsbury’s ‘overpackaged’ joint of meat set the scene...
The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) has announced the winners of its Community Partnership Awards. Food minister Jim Paice presented 23 awards at a lunch at the Institute of Directors in London..
A study commissioned by the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA), from Loughborough University has confirmed what many have long suspected: that so-called 'oxodegradable' plastics are neither strictly speaking 'degradable'...
