As the environmental impact of consumer awareness continues to rise, sustainability remains a top priority for many consumers, driving decisions in the brand packaging industry. Beverage manufacturers are actively seeking packaging options that help reduce environmental impact and overall waste.

01PET packaging

Sidel ultralight PET bottle

Sidel launched an ultra-light 500ml PET packaging industrial bottle design, claiming to be a cost-effective and sustainable choice, which can be used for non-pressurized bottled water products. This design bottle weighs 6.5 grams and has a height of 195mm, aiming to optimize packaging and production costs.

100% rPET bottle

Nestlé's mineral water brand Valvert has launched a packaging bottle made of 100% renewable PET material. This is also the first time Nestlé has launched packaging of this material in the European market. Evian has also launched 100% PET bottles, and Coca-Cola has also launched 100% recyclable Coca-Cola brand PET bottles in some markets.

PET beer bottle

In May 2019, the Russian branch of Heineken launched two new PET beer bottle designs, which use the interchangeable insert system of the Italian company PET Engineering. According to the introduction, the shape of the new design can be easily modified with interchangeable inserts-which means that the new design can always replace new decorations, move and adjust the position and size of the label, and even change the volume of the bottle.

Australian packaging company Amcor has developed a new PET bottle design for Brazilian craft beer brand Salzburg. The New Age Bebidas winery from Brazil has customized a 600ml 100% recyclable PET bottle for its pasteurized beer in Salzburg. The PET bottle is characterized by its color like glass and champagne bottle shape, and retains the crown-shaped metal cap of the glass packaging, but the bottle body is lighter and more portable, and more shock and drop resistant.

02Paper packaging

Paper package

British beverage brand Water Works launched carton mineral water. In addition to environmental protection performance is better than other forms of packaging, the carton also helps to keep the water fresh and fresh, because the packaging effectively blocks light and air.

Paper beer bottle

In 2019, Carlsberg unveiled two latest research prototypes of the "Green Fiber Bottle". According to Carlsberg, the green fiber bottle they developed was the first "paper bottle" for beer. This beer bottle is made from 100% bio-based, fully recyclable wood fiber from sustainable sources. The compartment design inside the bottle meets the requirements for beer. It is understood that one of the two prototypes uses a recycled PET polymer film barrier, and the other uses a 100% bio-based PEF polymer film barrier.

Sterile paper bottle with ASI certified aluminum foil

In July 2019, Unilever Future Platform start-up brand B-Better cooperated with Combibloc to launch a series of aquatic products rich in B vitamins. The packaging of this series of products is a 750ml combidome "combidome" paper bottle, made of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified cardboard. It is the first company to use SIGNATURE packaging materials to manufacture "combidome" paper bottles, using a quality balance method Connect polymers with wood-based renewable materials.

03 aluminum can water

As part of its efforts to reduce plastic waste, The Coca-Cola Company announced plans to launch its Dasani water brand aluminum packaging.

PepsiCo announced in June last year that it would replace the plastic packaging of some products with aluminum cans, and the aluminum can packaging of its brand Pure Water Music will be gradually rolled out.

04Biodegradable bottles in landfills

Chlorophyll Water, an American brand of chlorophyll water, announced the use of 20-ounce bottles that can be biodegraded in landfills to help eliminate pollution, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and recycle clean renewable energy.

Reducing plastic is still the main consumer demand for food and beverage packaging. For consumer product packaging, sustainable packaging is no longer a buzzword that people use at will, but has become a part of the spirit of traditional and emerging brands. Packaging sustainability will also receive greater attention.