PLAY Food & Drink Business: Video News Bulletin 30 Jan

In the news this week... 

Packaging News

The Australian Council of Recycling has warned that more than 1M tonnes of plastic packaging continues to be sent to landfill or littered each year because the Australian Government has failed to deliver promised national packaging reforms, leaving Australian recycling infrastructure underutilised and some facilities at risk of closure.

EXCLUSIVE: Who won the 2026 PIDA Awards, and what do this year's winners tell us about the future of packaging? PKN reveals the winners and looks beyond the trophies to identify the key trends emerging from this year's award-winning designs.

Australian owned global packaging supplier Detpak has opened a multi-million dollar manufacturing facility in South Carolina, to produce paper-based packaging for quick service restaurant customers in the United States.