16 & 17 September 2026

Halls S2 & S3, Excel London

New label-free bottles from Valser

Valser, a Coca-Cola brand, has launched beverage bottles without labels, which feature the product information and logo embossed into the bottle with the barcode printed on the top of the lid.

Research from DS Smith identifies packaging types disrupting paper recycling streams

According to new research from DS Smith, junk mail, food trays, and pulp fruit trays are the top three most common difficult to recycle items placed in mixed or paper recycling streams, often containing plastics or food contamination that interferes with paper mill processes. DS Smith conducted the research in partnership with YouGov and based […]

Reusable plastic bottles release hundreds of potentially toxic chemicals, find researchers

Reusable plastic bottles release hundreds of potentially toxic chemicals into the water stream when put through dishwasher cycles, researchers at the University of Copenhagen have found.    Professor Jan Christensen and fellow researcher Selina Tisler detected more than 400 different substances from the bottle plastic and over 3,500 substances derived from dishwasher soap in a […]