Sustainability for businesses Archive

flustix
17. January 2023
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Expert warns: Retail chains drive recycling companies into bankruptcy

Expert warns: Retail chains drive recycling companies into bankruptcy https://flustix.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/PET_2_head.png 1920 768 flustix flustix https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9344b3c26f37e9145f6650458b447422?s=96&d=mm&r=g 17. January 2023 17. January 2023

German recycling companies are under pressure: the sharp rise in production costs is offset by a consistently high price for used PET bottles and flakes. The reason is obvious: despite…

flustix
16. January 2023
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This is how the mandatory offering of reusable packaging works

This is how the mandatory offering of reusable packaging works https://flustix.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/MehrwegTeil1.png 1920 768 flustix flustix https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9344b3c26f37e9145f6650458b447422?s=96&d=mm&r=g 16. January 2023 18. January 2023

The German Federal Ministry for the Environment and Consumer Protection explains the most important rules of the new law. Reusable alternative must not be more expensive than disposable “Restaurants, bistros…

flustix
14. January 2023
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The new reusable cup law in a practical test: How are things going with the new deposit cups at a train station, Mcdonald’s, and Burger King?

The new reusable cup law in a practical test: How are things going with the new deposit cups at a train station, Mcdonald’s, and Burger King? https://flustix.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/MehrwegGesetz.png 1920 768 flustix flustix https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9344b3c26f37e9145f6650458b447422?s=96&d=mm&r=g 14. January 2023 20. January 2023

The new mandatory offering of reusable packaging has been in force since January 1, 2023. Businesses must now offer consumers reusable alternatives for food and beverages they take home. How…

flustix
8. December 2022
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New EU packaging regulation: The effects are particularly drastic for shopping and traveling

New EU packaging regulation: The effects are particularly drastic for shopping and traveling https://flustix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/MicrosoftTeams-image-37.png 1920 768 flustix flustix https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9344b3c26f37e9145f6650458b447422?s=96&d=mm&r=g 8. December 2022 2. January 2023

The EU is putting on pressure: waste-intensive packaging is to be banned, reusable and recycling solutions massively promoted – for this, the responsible Commission has proposed a revision of the…

flustix
18. October 2022
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Packaging industry celebrates a green trade show – but how sustainable and innovative is Fachpack?

Packaging industry celebrates a green trade show – but how sustainable and innovative is Fachpack? https://flustix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/MicrosoftTeams-image-45.png 1920 768 flustix flustix https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9344b3c26f37e9145f6650458b447422?s=96&d=mm&r=g 18. October 2022 19. October 2022

SUMMARY For flustix on site at the fair: Xenia Kersten, Malte Biss and Krzysztof Babel. The Fachpack is the most important trade fair for the packaging industry in Europe. The…

flustix
18. October 2022
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We need plastic – up to a certain limit that we must not exceed

We need plastic – up to a certain limit that we must not exceed https://flustix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Haltung_mit_Biss_EN.png 1920 768 flustix flustix https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9344b3c26f37e9145f6650458b447422?s=96&d=mm&r=g 18. October 2022 19. October 2022

ATTITUDE WITH BISS I recently read something about an impressive comparison on the subject of plastic. Between the years 1950 and 2015, 8.3 billion tons of plastic were produced worldwide.…

flustix
18. October 2022
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Climate protection: discounter supports recycling with new campaign

Climate protection: discounter supports recycling with new campaign https://flustix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/MicrosoftTeams-image-46.png 1920 768 flustix flustix https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9344b3c26f37e9145f6650458b447422?s=96&d=mm&r=g 18. October 2022 19. October 2022

INNOVATIONS In the Corona year 2020, private households in Germany generated 78 kilograms of packaging waste per capita. That was an average of six kilograms more per person than in…

flustix
18. October 2022
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Bags made of grass or “wild plastic”: How Germany’s biggest online retailers are presenting themselves as climate-friendly

Bags made of grass or “wild plastic”: How Germany’s biggest online retailers are presenting themselves as climate-friendly https://flustix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/MicrosoftTeams-image-15.png 1920 768 flustix flustix https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9344b3c26f37e9145f6650458b447422?s=96&d=mm&r=g 18. October 2022 9. November 2022

Packaging check at Amazon, Otto, Zalando & Co. Hundreds of thousands of packages crisscross the country every day: we have shoes and books, vegetables or a new smartphone cable delivered…

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9. September 2022
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Germany will obligate catering to offer reusable packaging from Jan 1, 2023

Germany will obligate catering to offer reusable packaging from Jan 1, 2023 https://flustix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/MicrosoftTeams-image-44.png 1920 768 flustix flustix https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9344b3c26f37e9145f6650458b447422?s=96&d=mm&r=g 9. September 2022 20. October 2022

New law aims to avoid take away packaging The non-recyclable mountain of waste is huge: every hour in Germany, hundreds of thousands of plastic-coated coffee-to-go cups and takeaway trays with…

flustix
8. September 2022
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EU plans to ban greenwashing

EU plans to ban greenwashing https://flustix.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/MicrosoftTeams-image-11.png 1920 768 flustix flustix https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9344b3c26f37e9145f6650458b447422?s=96&d=mm&r=g 8. September 2022 12. September 2022

Will these four advertising tricks soon be banned? From “climate-positive” to “plastic-negative” – clever marketing professionals cannot be accused of lacking creativity when it comes to putting a product’s alleged…