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Embrace Sustainability This Easter
As Easter approaches, it's a time for joy, renewal, and celebration. However, amidst the festivities, it's essential to remember our responsibility towards the planet. With environmental concerns growing more urgent, adopting sustainable practices in our Easter...
Industrial
Three ways to tackle and approach the Phasing-out of problematic packaging
The banning and phasing out of single use plastic bags back in 2019 by the New Zealand Government not only marked a turning point, but also triggered a significant shift in awareness regarding packaging materials and their role in our communities.Since single use...
Retail
Five Ways You Can Be More Sustainable During Black Friday!
Black Friday is arguably one of the largest shopping days of the calendar year. According to many articles and historians, it’s a day directly after Thanksgiving in United States of America (USA). However, it has now morphed into a yearly shopping spree tradition...
Special Addition
The Evolution of Packaging: Hi-Tech Packaging’s Sustainable Revolution
Packaging, in its myriad forms, has always been a silent yet pivotal protagonist in the saga of commerce and product evolution. Its primary duty—protecting and preserving goods, from the farm to the supermarket shelf, and finally into our homes—has remained constant....
Waste
Food Scrap Collections. The Good, The Bad and the Great!
Earlier this year the Auckland City Council began the rollout of the first-ever Food Scraps Kerbside Collection in Auckland. It coincides with The Ministry for the Environments announcement of the new Waste Strategy. This is to standardise kerbside collection which...
In The News
Hi-Tech Packaging Ltd input on sustainable packaging in Stuff News
Stuff.co.nz Article: Edible cups, paperboard booze bottles and other wacky sustainable packaging“I have seen a massive shift over the last two-to-three years where brands, consumers, manufacturers, and government agencies have come together to actively solve some of...
Food
5 Things We Learnt Attending the Foodtech Packtech Show
Last month the Hi-Tech Packaging team attended the much-anticipated Foodtech Packtech Show here in Auckland. We say much anticipated because the last couple of years have been cancelled, postponed, or done virtually due to our friend COVID! So being able to attend in...
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