Category: Sustainability

Carlsberg unveils new ‘paper’ beer bottle prototypes promoting its sustainable packaging ambitions

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DENMARK – The Danish brewery group, Carlsberg has unveiled two new research prototypes of its green fibre bottle as the company makes further progress on creating the world’s first ‘paper’ beer bottle. Carlsberg is seeking […]

PepsiCo appoints Lowden as the company’s first chief sustainability officer

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USA – PepsiCo has named Simon Lowden as its first Chief Sustainability Officer as company advances its agenda to help build a more sustainable food system. In this new role, effective immediately, Lowden will be […]

Arla Foods adopts science based targets to accelerate sustainability agenda

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NEW ZEALAND – Farmer owned dairy cooperative, Arla Foods’ target to reduce total CO2 emissions with 30 per cent by 2030 has been officially approved by the Science Based Target initiative as aligned with climate […]

Aleph Farms succesfully produces cell-grown meat in space

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ISRAEL – Aleph Farms, an Israeli food technology start-up company, has successfully carried out a trial on cell-grown meat in the space as part of its mission to provide sustainable food security on the planet. […]

Unilever unveils new ambitious commitments for a waste-free world

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UK – Multinational consumer goods company, Unilever has announced new commitments seeking to halve its use of virgin plastic by 2025 and help create a circular economy for plastics. The Ben & Jerry’s, Knorr, and […]

NBC delivers multi-million dollar water projects to Kano State as part of CSR initiative

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NIGERIA – The Nigerian Bottling Company (NBC), sole bottler of Coca-Cola products in Nigeria and a subsidiary of Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Limited (CCHBC) has inaugurated several CSR water projects in Kano State worth over […]

Drinks Cubed launches mineral water in SIG’s recyclable packaging in the UK

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UK – Drinks Cubed has launched a premium mineral water, Water Cubed, in SIG’s combidome carton bottle, accelerating the UK start-up’s ambitions of becoming the lowest carbon footprint drinks brand by 2022. According to SIG, […]

Barry Callebaut inaugurates new solar energy facility in its Ghanaian factory

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GHANA – Barry Callebaut, a leading international chocolate manufacturer and one of the leading processors of cocoa in Ghana, has officially inaugurated its newly installed solar generation facility in the factory in Tema. The installation […]

Danish Crown aims to achieve sustainable soy sourcing by 2020

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DENMARK – Meat processor, Danish Crown has adopted a responsible soy policy to ensure the company achieves sustainable soy sourcing by 2020. Danish Crown says the policy also promotes sustainable development of soy production and […]

Nestlé inaugurates new solar energy plant for Dubai factory

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DUBAI – Nestlé Middle East has commissioned a new solar energy plant at Al Maha factory in Dubai, to accelerate the company’s efforts towards achieving zero net greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The solar energy […]