A New Zealand-made cosmetics company is taking its sustainability practices to the next level, with the help of the Glass Packaging Forum, by developing a take-back and refill programme. As a company whose ethos is founded on people, planet and being animal-friendly, Aleph Beauty Operations Manager...
When it comes to sustainability the waste hierarchy is the simplest and often best guideline, and it’s no different for packaging. In the hierarchy reuse is king and no other packaging material is better suited to this than glass. While reusing glass bottles and jars at scale around New...
Read the Glass Packaging Forum's submission to the Ministry for the Environment on the proposal to declare packaging a priority product....
It’s finally happened – a New Zealand government has taken the plunge and announced its intention to declare priority product, and thereby bring about regulated product stewardship for the first time....
The Government’s announcement that it is working towards co-designed and regulated product stewardship for a number of products, including packaging, is a huge step in the right direction for New Zealand’s war on waste, says the Glass Packaging Forum (GPF). Associate Minister for the Environment Eugenie Sage today announced a...
One of New Zealand’s youngest woman winemakers is putting sustainability at the heart of her professional development as she seeks to drive glass recycling in the industry....