US - Starbucks Coffee, together with LBP Manufacturing and Henkel, has launched its new hot-cup sleeve - Earth Sleeve – which enables a reduction in total material usage while increasing post-consumer content, saving nearly 100,000 trees.
UK – Independent wine supplier Kingsland Wines and Spirits will be filling paper wine bottles with various wines by the end of this year for supermarket sale.
INDIA - Scientists at the Institute of Chemical Technology in Matunga have developed an oxo-degradable polymer which they claim decomposes in just two months when exposed to sunlight.
US – Pepsi’s Pure Leaf Ice Tea recently shifted from glass to plastic packaging for its ready-to-drink tea products, gaining increased recyclability and cost savings while providing consumers with greater convenience.