Biodegradable packaging can only be a positive step but insufficient information and unregulated marketing could lead to more harm than good. Packaging Professional asks a panel of experts.

Researchers at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain, have been investigating how consumers respond to branded packaging.

A novel nanocomposite could improve the mechanical and thermal properties and decrease the oxygen permeability of barrier packaging.

The Student Starpack Packaging Design Awards are open for entry. Rachel Brooks explains the briefs on offer for 2012, and catches up on developments within the Starpack Advisory Board.

An interview with Robert Opie - part archivist, part collector, part historian, he curates the Museum of Brands in Notting Hill, London, UK, researching, sourcing, cataloguing and fleshing out the tapestry of the British packaging story.

Paul Gaster, director of flexible packaging at PCI Consulting Films Ltd, talks about pan-industry trends derived from his company’s recent Middle East and African Flexible Packaging Market 2011 report.

As the Starpack Awards 2011 are presented at the London and South East Packaging Dinner at the Landmark Hotel in London, we look at the winners and the judges' comments.

Following the Government's announcement that it was considering the use of plain packaging as an anti-smoking measure, we ask industry members what the implications of such a move would be.

By 2012, the first UK facility to convert end-of-life plastics into road specification diesel and other kerosene fuels is scheduled to open.

Europe’s first fully integrated mixed plastics packaging recycling facility in Redcar, UK, looks to sort out a sustainable future for industry.