When a plastic bottle ends up in a recycling plant, the label attached to it usually isn’t recycled. That’s why a new bottle from Evian was designed to eliminate the label entirely, with the brand ...

Most plastic bottles used for beverages, like soda bottles and common water bottle brands, have plastic or paper labels that are affixed with a strong glue, such as water-based or hot melt adhesive.

A lot of fresh food comes in its own natural packaging meaning there's no real need to encase them in plastic. I'm talking about produce such as potatoes, apples, oranges, bananas, avocados, and ...

With his four-year-old son in mind at the time, Joe Sleiman says he knew more than 20 years ago he didn't want to manufacture plastic produce labels. The president of Accu-Label in Lakeshore, Ont., ...

EUGENE, Ore. — A University of Oregon business professor is on a mission to get barcode stickers on produce banned at the grocery store. She’s using artwork, made of those labels, to get people ...

Some 137.5 million of the stickers have already been taken off fruit and vegetables and others will go over the next 12 months. They have previously been seen as essential in helping shoppers and ...

Ironically, organic fruit and vegetables are often packaged and labeled with plastic. But such unnecessary packaging and plastic stickers could be replaced by an innovative laser mark. Will it catch ...

A nation-leading ban on plastic fruit stickers has been paused in one state over fears the cost will prove too great for farmers. The state was set to become the first jurisdiction in the country to ...