Coca-Cola to change half of juice packaging

Coca-Cola Co. is unveiling new packaging for half of its worldwide juice volume that borrows from staple brand Minute Maid to create a more uniform look highlighting fruit and nature to appeal to consumers worldwide focusing more on health.

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Graphic Packaging nets $238.4M in debt sale

Consumer products packaging maker Graphic Packaging International Inc. on Tuesday said it completed a private debt offering it will use to buy back other debt.

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THE INFLUENCE GAME: Defense lobby emphasizes jobs

Save the economy. Build fighter jets.

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Int'l Paper Buys Weyerhaeuser Unit

International Paper, a global supplier of packaging materials and uncoated paper, announced Monday it is buying the containerboard unit of Weyerhaeuser Co. for $6 billion in cash.

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McDonald's Unveils 'Online Casting Call'

Want to get your face in front of 50 million people? Here's your big chance — have it featured on a McDonald's cup or bag.

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Products and packaging account for more than 40% of our carbon dioxide emissions -- suggesting that the type and amount of things we buy matters more to the climate than energy or fuel efficiency.

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Simon Simpkins, a father of two, said he was shocked at the "pornographic" poses when he bought the sour candy for his children Benjamin and Ofelia. Mr Simpkins, of Pontefract, West Yorks, told The Sun: "The lemon and lime are locked in what appears to be a carnal encounter.

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Beer has come a long way since breweries first had the idea of developing can packaging nearly 100 years ago.

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Fanta Orange, the #1 fruit-flavored sparkling beverage in the U.S., will now feature 100 percent natural flavors.

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An American company has been forced to re-print its breakfast cereal packaging, after a typo on the box sent callers to a phone sex line instead of the cereal maker's number.

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Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa has created a amazing series of creative fruit juice packages that have the look and feel of the fruit they contain.

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The Right to Throw Away Our Lives

The Right to Throw Away Our Lives What did you throw away last week? How many bags of trash had to be lugged, hauled, delivered, compacted, dumped that have your lifestyle signature on them? Have you ever give plain old household garbage a second thought?

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Here's a lemon of an idea: take five pieces of citrus fruit, already protected by their own thick skin, and sell them only after wrapping them in unrecyclable plastic.

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In honor of Super Bowl XLIII, Gatorade has produced commemorative "Champs" bottles for the winning team. Both "Champs" designs are featured above, but obviously only one will be released on Sunday, a rare look at one design which will never see the light of day. Which will it be?

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DELL is moving to replace traditional styrofoam packaging with old milk and laundry detergent bottles in a bid to reduce its carbon footprint and shave $US8 million from packaging expenses.

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The device underscores that it pays to be green – according to UPS's estimates, it will save about 92,456 hours year through increased productivity, save about 1,338 tons of paper, and reduce carbon emissions by 3,807 tons each year.

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PARIS, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Sixty years after its adoption by the United Nations General Assembly in Paris, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is about to journey into space.

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Amazon.com has launched "Frustration-Free Packaging," a new initiative designed to make it easier for customers to liberate products from their packages.

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In NYC, the "Eating You Alive" campaign will feature matchbooks with grotesquery that would make a Civil War surgeon woozy including those from the Shane MacGowan school of dental hygiene, all in an effort to get folks to butt out

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Hewlett-Packard, responding to a challenge by Wal-Mart Stores to offer more ecologically friendly products, said Wednesday that it was selling a new notebook computer in a fabric messenger bag instead of packaging it in a box.

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Lush, a British chain of hand-made soap stores, has recently started a rather cheeky promotion campaign. Their shop assistants have been working naked, with only an apron to hide their modesty.

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The incredible shrinking product.... and our wallets.

I have known the creeping cost was living in our midst for a while now. I have seen the price of things we use every day going up, up, up. I think psychologically we can adjust to that in a normal matter.

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The Earth Policy Institute tells us that 17 million barrels of oil are used annually to meet American demand for bottled water.

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17 boxes in total to protect 32 pages Click through to see the photos of the box they came in!

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Better design reduces water consumption and increases efficiency. This is a step forward.

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"Clamshell packaging is so over," said Wendy Jedlicka, a packaging designer. "We know it sucks.

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Maybe the age of hard clamshell packaging is coming to a close...one our fingers will surely appreciate.

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No one can tell China what to do! They're an autonomous nation with a proud history and an unquenchable desire to pull themselves up by their bootstraps...international regulations be-damned! Oh...that is, unless it's Wal-Mart doing the asking.

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Does coffee in a flimsy cup taste worse than coffee in a more substantial cup? Firms such as McDonalds and Starbucks spend millions of dollars every year on disposable packaging, but a new study suggests that trying to skimp in this area might not be worth it -- and may negativel …

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