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Food products giant will use less plastic, more recycled content, and alternatives to plastic

PITTSBURGH & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jul 31, 2023--

In recent months, collaborations are evolving from time-limited, two-party partnerships into perpetual, multi-stakeholder coalitions that look like microcosms of entire supply chains.

PMG editors fanned out across PACK EXPO International in October in search of packaging innovations. Heres what they found in sustainable packaging.

Heinz product packaging uses advanced recycled PCR from flexible films that had been dropped off by consumers at Tesco’s in-store collection points, representing true circularity and continued adoption of new recycling technology--pyrolosis in this case.

Peace in a war between baked beans giant Heinz and supermarket chain Tesco has been finally brokered - bringing relief to fans of the formers tomato-based products.

Despite becoming a staple for millions of Brits, families could be turned off by the eyewatering cost a pack of Lurpak at Sainsburys after pictures showed it selling for £7.25.

Twix is the latest in a string of products to fall victim to shrinkflation - the term used for when food giants quietly reduce the size of hundreds of products while still charging the same prices.

Pictures posted on social media showed that a 750g pack of Lurpaks lightly salted spreadable butter is now being sold in Sainsburys for £7.25. The price until recently was £5.90.

Suppliers have tried to increase prices to take into account the impact of soaring cost inflation, but Tesco has stood firm, insisting it will not pass on unjustifiable price increases to customers.