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Packaging Event
Reflections on SPC Impact New Orleans: A celebration of sustainability and collaboration
SPC Impact 24 in New Orleans was nothing short of extraordinary - an immersive experience that blended inspiration, education & camaraderie.
Article
EPR: How we can help
From understanding your requirements to ensuring you can report on a day-to-day basis, we help you stay EPR compliant.
Packaging Event
Packaging Innovations 2024
Aura’s Gillian Garside-Wight shares insights from her recent visit to Packaging Innovations 2024.
Article
Horizon Futures 2023 Round Up
Our free 2023 round up is your guide to the most recent packaging legislation changes, legal updates and EPR across Europe, the USA and Canada.
Aura
Aura – where to next?
The 1st November 2022 seems a long time ago since we launched Aura, at the Sustainability in Packaging Europe Conference, in Barcelona.
Aura Podcast
Introducing the #TREVTalks podcast
We’re excited to share the launch of Aura’s brand-new packaging sustainability podcast #TREVTalks, now streaming across major platforms including Spotify and Amazon Music.
Packaging Event
Velocity Institute Sustainability Summit 2023
Aura’s Trevor Yong shares insights from his recent visit to Velocity Institute Sustainability Summit 2023.
Packaging Event
E-Pack Europe 2023: Our key take-aways
Aura’s Gillian Garside-Wight, Consulting Director, shares with us take-ways from E-Pack including insights from Aura’s E-Pack survey.
Recycling
Self-destructing cup or destructive marketing?
Last weekend at a sporting event, my beer was served in this ‘self-destructing’ cup. Intrigued by the incredibly bold messaging and claims, I couldn’t help but dig a bit deeper.
Aura
There’s no ‘I’ in Team Aura
Our culture is a huge focus for us as an organisation, is key to both innovation and resilience and is undoubtedly crucial to our future success.
Packaging News
Is ‘plastic free’ achievable for the masses?
As plastic consumption increases, I wanted to explore available alternative materials. I am a firm believer in the benefits of plastics, as well as cartonboard, glass and aluminium.
Packaging News
Start your engines sustainability in Motorsport
Much like in packaging, there have been some seriously bold sustainability commitments in the world of motorsport, which in my opinion are going to be very challenging to achieve.
Article
Nelson Mandela Day 2023: Climate, Food & Solidarity
To honor the legacy of Nelson Mandela, the United Nations General Assembly marked Nelson Mandela’s birthday, July 18 as Nelson Mandela Day, devoting the day to public service.
Packaging Event
Circularity 23 – Just go for it!
Circularity 23, organized by GreenBiz in Seattle, WA from June 5-7th, was a heady mix of learning, discovery, and relationship-building.
Packaging Event
The Festival Season is upon us – Packaging and Waste
Festival organisers have developed comprehensive sustainability programmes from tent recommendations, a range of on-site sleeping arrangements, green buses to minimise CO2 emissions from travel as well as specific eco-camps.
Article
World Ocean Day – Aura partners with NOC
When we reflect on our contribution to our environment and our oceans, could we do more as individuals and as businesses? I’m pretty sure the answer is yes because we need to do more and quickly!
Article
World Environment Day 2023
This World Environment Day we will see lots of people posting about beating plastic pollution, however this must not be a one day wonder.
Aura
Aura’s inaugural US conference.
If you’re going to launch a sales campaign in American, you need to do it in style and that’s exactly what we did with Aura.
Aura
Luke Farnsworth: my first month at Aura
One thing that really stood out straight away was the way Aura takes work-life balance seriously.
Article
King Charles III – from passionate campaigner to The Climate King
As monarch, King Charles will not be able to air his views on sustainability quite so openly, however I very much hope his passion for sustainability and climate change are still be seen and heard by many.
Article
3 key sustainability trends in 2023 and how to play your part
Reflecting on the many positive messages shared throughout this World Earth Month, we look at trends that unite both global organizations and consumers in creating a better future for our planet.
Article
Food service: Legislation – catalyst for change, but is it enough?
Legislation in food service in imperative, however is it enough on its own to drive the collaborative change we desperately need?
Article
Food service: the on-the-go packaging challenge
One of the key challenges remains that with the vast majority of food service consumed on-the-go, a lot of it ends up as litter either due to lack of available disposal facilities or poor consumer behaviour.
Article
Food Service Giants: Friends or Foes?
Do we really give big fast-food companies their dues when it comes to sustainable innovation in food service?
Packaging Event
Trevor Yong reviews the Managing Plastic Waste conference 2023
It was great to be joined at this event by industry professionals who all care about the same thing: our planet.
Packaging Event
Packaging Innovations & Empack 2023
The Aura team kicked of this year’s events calendar with over 120 talk attendees at Packaging Innovations & Empack.
Packaging Event
Legislation is key to driving positive change, how much progress is the US actually making?
Whilst revisiting US Legislation to keep abreast of change, I find myself questioning how much progress is the US actually making?