September 2008
The September 2008 issue highlights Aveda's new Caps-Recycling Program, a landmark initiative that aims to create a new recycling system for polypropylene caps. Companies are also making sustainability a priority for natural bath and body products as well as for cartons.
Featured Stories
Cover Story:
The Evolution of a Cap
Web Exclusive! Aveda Prevents Plastics from Polluting Oceans
Sidebar: Closing the Loop
Sidebar: How Schoolchildren Helped- Bath and Body Products:
Natural Growth
Web Exclusive! The Natural Market
Web Exclusive! Reconsidering and Reformulating
Web Exclusive! New Natural Skin Care Lines
Sidebar: Talking the Talk - Tubes:
Price Tags
Web Exclusive! Eco-Friendly Decorating
Sidebar: A Clear Breakthrough
Sidebar: A Double Dose of Style - Paper, Printing, and Cartons:
Wrapped in Green
Web Exclusive! Greenwashing: A Dirty Word in Packaging - Designer Interview:
Josh Handy, Method Products Inc.
Web Exclusive! Q&A with Josh Handy, creative director of industrial design for Method Products Inc.
Departments
- Fine Print:
Is Your Product a Cosmetic or a Drug? 
Perspectives:
Gun Nowak, Face Stockholm- Packaging Resource Center- Show Coverage:
Luxe Pack Monaco
Pack Expo International
Cosmoprof Asia - Packaging Resource Center- Featured Products:
Product Showcase
Cartons
Metals
Sample Packaging - Industry News:
Web Exclusive! Small Brands: Going Green
CPC Packaging Panel Outlines Green Packaging Pros and Cons
CPC Packaging's Editors' Choice Awards: Call for Entries
Will Beauty Companies Soon Favor More-Secure Mass-Market Packages?
Use Innovative Packaging to Appeal to Kids, Experts Advise
Reader's Poll: What are your greatest challenges in going green? - Supplier News:
Updates from the supplier market - Faces + Places
Web Exclusive! More Photos from HCT Packaging's West Coast design studio. - From the Publisher:
The PVC Debate Rages On -
Latest Launches
Web Exclusive! More Latest Launches - Opening Lines:
Green, Not Naïve - In Closing:
Where Nature and Technology Meet