Welcome to the Glass Packaging Institute's new monthly e-newsletter, Inside Glass Packaging. We have combined what were formerly the GPI Glass Quarterly and Inside Glass Recycling e-newsletters into one comprehensive publication. This broadened coverage of the glass packaging industry promises to keep you up-to-date on glass container news, trends, recycling, organics, sustainability and much more. We welcome your feedback and thank you for your continued support.

 

GPI Announces 2007 Clear Choice Awards Call for Entries

To Crown Top Glass Packaging Designs in North America

The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) is kicking off its 17th year of the Clear Choice Awards, which recognizes the contribution of glass packaging to the image, marketability, sustainability and success of food, beverage and cosmetic products.

"By designing and using glass packaging for your brand you are providing customers with what they really want—a 'pure,' 'premium' and 'sustainable' product," says GPI President Joseph Cattaneo. "Choosing glass for a food, beverage, or cosmetic product creates superior shelf impact and brand loyalty."

To enter, visit www.gpi.org and complete an e-Call for Entries form. Industry-renowned judges will vote to crown the winning glass packaging designs at the Food Marketing Institute (FMI) Chicago 2007 show. Submissions are due March 30, 2007. Enter Now!

 

GAO Report Recommends Ways to Boost U.S. Recycling Rate

A U.S. Government Accountability Office report released January 29, 2007 recommends federal initiatives to step up recycling nationwide and reports on local activities to encourage recycling. "Recycling in the U.S. has been stagnant for the past several years," says John Stephenson, Director, Natural Resource & Environment, GAO. "So any initiatives that can breathe more life into it would provide a significant boost." Recycling: Additional Efforts Could Increase Municipal Recycling was requested by Sens. Jeffords, Snowe, Carper, Obama, and Wyden in early 2006. Get the findings

 

GPI Announces MSU Student Glass Packaging Design Competition Winners

Michigan State University School of Packaging students Jocelyn King and Ashley Schmiege already have what it takes to work at a Fortune 500 packaging company: they both know how to apply the "real world" factor to the packaging development process. As first place winners in the Glass Packaging Institute (GPI)-sponsored student glass packaging design competition that took place in December, King and Schmiege each received an engraved glass plaque, a $100 Best Buy gift card and enrollment at O-I's Glass University. See the winning bottle

 

PACKAGING TRENDS

New Products Packaged in Glass

Trend Alert: Organic, healthful and premium consumer product goods continue to gain market share, and glass packaging is the container of choice for these trendsetting products. Take a look at 13 new products packaged in glass.

 

UK Leads Glass Lightweighting Trend

The UK is taking the lead in initiatives aimed at reducing the weight of glass food and beverage bottles. Lighter glass bottles save raw materials and reduce energy use. WRAP (The Waste and Resources Action Programme) has been working since March 2006 to encourage reductions in glass waste, with several successes already. Rockware Glass, O-I, Quinn Glass and Allied Glass are all on board. Read more

 

GPI Responds to New York Times Article

GPI President Joseph Cattaneo submitted this Letter to the Editor in response to the New York Times article "Thinking Outside the Cardboard"

 

GLASS BOTTLE RECYCLING

GPI Helps Sponsor NC Recycling Workshops

Training workshops in North Carolina are getting local government solid waste professionals up-to-date on a new state law requiring bar/restaurant owners to recycle all their beverage containers beginning January 1, 2008. GPI and North Carolina Division of Pollution Prevention and Environmental Assistance (DPPEA) are sponsoring the events with NC SWANA (Solid Waste Association of North America). Read more

 

1000 WORDS

Cadbury Schweppes bought its first Super Bowl ad—a 30-second spot to promote its new glass packaged Snapple Green Tea with EGCG, an anti-oxidant said to boost metabolism. View the Ad