PLAY Food & Drink Business Video News Bulletin: 4 March

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Packaging News

More than 700 Woolworths supermarkets across five states are now accepting soft plastics again, marking a major expansion of Australia’s growing soft plastics recovery network.

The 2026 Australasian Packaging Innovation & Design (PIDA) Awards finalists have been announced, with this year’s shortlist spotlighting the innovations, materials and talent shaping the future of packaging across Australia and New Zealand – and setting the stage for a competitive run into the global WorldStar awards.

PulPac has signed Australian packaging company Zipform Packaging as a licensee of its Dry Molded Fiber technology, to accelerate the development of fibre-based solutions for food packaging applications.