EcoImpact is the leading sustainability solution designed for product and packaging engineers/designers and sustainability professionals to manage environmental impact. This year we have been busy releasing new features on EcoImpact-COMPASS: roll up reports, circularity index, simple indicators, and a company
Composting and Biodegradability: A Packaging Breakdown
To meet consumer demand for less packaging waste, companies are investing heavily to find new sources of raw material as well as new ways of returning these materials safely to the environment. This has
If you do your own grocery shopping, you’ve probably noticed that most food packaging is plastic. There are plastic jars that hold peanut butter, plastic tubes of tomato paste, plastic squeeze bottles of ketchup, plastic bottles of soda, and plastic
Starbucks recently announced that they were planning to replace straws with recyclable plastic lids in all their stores by 2020. This decision has sparked a debate over what actions companies can take to reduce the plastic that flows into oceans
Recently, Mady Delvaux-Stehres, an MEP for the EU from Luxembourg, drafted legislation to rule robots as electronic persons. If passed, such legislation would make a robot closer to a person than an object in the eyes of the law.
Over the past few years, single serve packaging has taken over the shelves and the market catering to the active, busy consumer. There are various reasons for smaller products popularity, such as an overall increase in 1 to 2 person
If you’ve been around sustainable packaging circles for the last 10 years, you’ve probably heard of the LCA tool COMPASS. The COMPASS project was launched by the Sustainable Packaging Coalition in 2006 after a review of existing tools applicable to
The Trayak team traveled to the heart of the rust belt to participate in this year’s Sustainable Brands conference. The theme for this year’s event was ‘Redefining the Good Life,’ and Detroit, a city that is striving to uplift itself,