Regulation, Ratings, Reports

Matthias Giebel
12. April 2021

Chemical recycling: Heads up when choosing the right process

Chemical recycling is not the Holy Grail. But to turn a blind eye would be fundamentally wrong, because we can’t do without it, especially in high-volume food contact applications. What matters is the choice of the ecologically correct process. And it is precisely on this question that the conflicts ignite.   A controversial discussion has […]

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Thomas Reiner
01. September 2020

NIVEA and dm to reduce packaging volume by 75% with refill stations

Beiersdorf and the drugstore chain dm are starting a pilot project with refill stations. The refill stations developed in-house by the German consumer goods giant for its NIVEA Creme Soft and NIVEA Creme Sensitiv shower gels are available to consumers in three dm stores in Hamburg and Karlsruhe for a period of 6 to 8 […]

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Thomas Reiner
31. July 2020

2.7x as many cucumbers spoil without packaging: We need system answers

A new study from Austria has examined the effects of dispensing with packaging for food. In the case of the cucumber, the amount of food waste increases by a factor of 2.7 on the retail side alone, and the climate footprint increases fourfold due to the additional amount of waste. The study shows that with […]

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Thomas Reiner
18. March 2020

Where sustainability and product protection collide: Ritter Sport wraps chocolate in paper

The Alfred Ritter GmbH & Co. KG now presents a chocolate bar packed 100 percent in paper for the first time. According to the company, a newly developed “special paper” replaces the previously used, already recyclable mono-material plastic film.

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