Case Studies & Research
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Beverages: Self-Dispensing
June 2009A project that investigates and scopes the wider use and potential for implementing the self-dispensing
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Packaging reductions in Birds Eye's frozen foods
April 2009Savings in household waste through the reduction of the folding box weight in Birds Eye’s frozen foods.
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Optimising Flexible Packaging
March 2009Around 110,000 tonnes of flexible film are used in the UK every year across a wide variety of sectors ranging from fresh fruit and vegetables to crisps, confectionery and dairy products.
Research has shown that the use of thinner gauge film, new sealing technology and reducing seal failure can be combined to deliver packaging reductions of around 25% and prevent food waste.
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Love Food Champions
October 2008The Love Food Champions project is a pilot initiative between Love Food Hate Waste and the National Federation of Women’s Institutes that has helped homes to cut the food they throw away by half, and make big savings on their food bills.
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Lightweighting beer and cider packaging
October 2008Lightweighting beer and cider bottles can deliver environmental and supply chain benefits.
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Lightweighting the can pack
September 2008A technical review and recommendations for can packaging.
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Evaluating the potential of Long Life Solutions
September 2008Smart Technology to reduce fresh produce wastage
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Biopolymer packaging in UK grocery market
August 2008WRAP Briefing: The UK is seeing a significant growth in the development and use of biopolymer and compostable packaging in the retail sector. The introduction of these new materials create risks for established recycling operations for both oil based plastics and compostable materials, and must be managed carefully.
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Make or break
August 2008One of the major concerns within the wine sector is 'If a wine bottle is made lighter and thinner, will it not be weaker and therefore break more easily?'
To address this concern, an assessment was carried out by Glass Technology Services (GTS) which demonstrated that lighter, thinner bottles can be manufactured to a strength equal to that of more commonly used heavier bottles.
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Champagne and sparkling wine
August 2008Champagne and sparkling wine bottles contribute about 66,000 tonnes of glass to the UK's waste stream.
Prepared as part of WRAP's GlassRite Wine project, this information sheet assesses the opportunities to use lighter weight bottles thereby reducing the tonnage of glass entering the waste stream and improving resource efficiencies.
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