There is definitely a summer trend when we look back on our top-five most-read stories on the website of July 2015 here at EPPM.
Not only does the thought of sunglasses, iced tea and trainers from the sea tickle your fancy, but we revisit two very different stories from June, namely the ENGEL Symposium Highlights (perhaps because you just cannot bear forgetting anything about that terrific event?) and our June/July Eureka Series story from CycleWood.
Sunglasses
Evonik's guide to sunglasses in summer 2015
Sunglasses have to be able to provide protection against UV rays and should be durable and Evonik has produced a handy guide to help consumers select the right sunnies.
Amcor gets hot-fill PET bottle down to a tea
Amcor has scooped an award for its packaging design for Pepsi-Co's Lipton tea drink in Central America at the AmeriStar Package Awards.
Knock on wood
Star of the NPE 2015 Startup Garage, cycleWood's innovative bio-thermoplastic made using a papermaking by-product could be the green future the plastic bag-making market has been looking for.
Paper mill
ENGEL Symposium 2015: The highlights
Rose Brooke has just got back after an exciting ENGEL Symposium 2015, which ignited
conversations about Austrian business philosophy, contemporary design, European growth and metal injection moulding - and that's before we talked about plastics.
From sea to street: Adidas creates first recycled ocean plastic shoe
Adidas and Parley for Oceans have presented a world first to the UN, a training shoe made using plastic ocean waste that demonstrates how big brands can use the vast resource of sea litter to make great products.
Adidas Group
Adidas
World First from Adidas: a shoe with an upper made entirely from recycled plastic waste retrieved from the sea.