Toy boxes to make parents happy too | Markets

Packaging News, November 2011

Parents hate Christmas. And it’s all the toy companies’ fault. Venture into the bear pit of the Mumsnet forums and it’s difficult to find anyone with a good word to say about toy packaging.

Comments on the parenting web site include the difficulty of accessing toys through layers of tough packaging, tie-downs and screws, the danger of having to use scissors and knives in the process, and the sheer waste of having so much of it to dispose of. … Continue Reading

Packing up its troubles

The Grocer, 22 January 2011

The packaging sector has been having a torrid time of it of late. If it hasn’t been contending with raw material cost hikes, it’s been taking blows from a green lobby happy to slap even the most environmentally friendly examples ironically, while bemoaning the level of food waste (often caused by a lack of packaging). It can’t win. … Continue Reading

The Environment in Your Pocket

From the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs comes a handy PDF booklet of statistics…

“… The thirteenth edition of the environment in your pocket annual publication focuses strongly on the themes of waste, recycling and sustainable consumption. It is a handy, free of charge, pocket-sized distillation of around 60 key data series. Through it we aim to make environment statistics accessible to wider and different audiences …” … Continue Reading

Table for one? The energy cost to feed one person

Want to know what your personal food consumption costs the Earth?

Did you know we lose one fifth of our food supply between the field and the checkout and then a third of that which is taken home? … Continue Reading

Designer Thinking: Packaging & Labelling

The Daily Telegraph, 16 September 2009

When Morrison’s started selling coconuts individually shrink-wrapped three years ago it provoked outrage in some quarters. The Women’s Institute waged war on supermarkets that used what they saw to be unnecessary amounts of packaging, and ‘wrap rage’ has become a common tabloid term. … Continue Reading