Sainsbury’s, UK, announced plans to halve its plastic use by 2025. This includes reducing plastic across all of its stores and supply chain.

Shuman Farms, Reidsville, Ga., announced big changes to the look, feel and sustainability of its organic packaging.

PCC Community Markets, Seattle, Wash., introduced a collection of new compostable deli containers to its 11 Puget Sound, Wash.-area stores.

Curbell Plastics, Inc., Orchard Park, N.Y., acquired Nationwide Plastics, Inc., a Dallas, Texas-based full-service distributor with extensive plastic part fabrication and precision machining capabilities.

In fact, 35% of consumers were more likely to purchase products without any plastic at all compared to ones with recycled plastic, according to research presented by GlobalData, UK.

Nearly one-third of shoppers prefer to buy their fresh foods in plastic containers, whether in bags, clamshells or overwrap, according to a study by Category Partners (CP), Idaho Falls, Idaho.

Berry Global, Evansville, Ind., announced plans to close one of two manufacturing facilities located adjacent to each other in Montgomery, Ala.

Nestlé Research and Development (R&D) China opened an innovation challenge in collaboration with Tsinghua x-lab, Beijing, China, to leverage China’s extensive capacity for innovation, while providing a platform for the development of potential solutions to address packaging sustainability locally.

Wind Point Partners, Chicago, and portfolio company A&R Logistics, Louisville, Ky., acquired Blue Water Plastic Transport, LLC, a St. Clair, Mich.-based provider of specialty bulk transportation and logistics services to the plastics industry.

The Corrugated Packaging Alliance (CPA), Itasca, Ill., released a new life cycle assessment (LCA) of produce packaging that shows neither corrugated containers nor reusable plastic containers (RPC) have an advantage in all environmental impact categories.