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In the early 1980s, Doug Peck helped revolutionize the food industry as part of a research team that developed the first stable plastic food container on the market. Peck was working for the H.J.

Plastic ketchup bottles have a valve in the lid that opens to let ketchup out, and that sometimes "sputters" if the bottle is squeezed too hard. Dutch scientists have copied that mechanism to create ...

It's the world's biggest non-problemic problem: getting the last bit of ketchup out of the jar. Ketchup is so viscous, and it seems so eager to stick to glass and plastic. But leave it to students at ...

Another major consumer package is moving from oil-based plastics to plant-based plastics. The iconic Heinz ketchup bottles will be made in part (30 percent) from sugarcane ethanol produced in Brazil.

PITTSBURGH,None — The iconic ketchup bottles of H.J. Heinz are going green. The company announced it will use Coca-Cola's plant-based plastic bottle technology for its ketchup bottles. The bottle is ...

Heinz announced Friday that it is working on the "ketchup bottle of tomorrow." The company said it has teamed up with Pulpex to develop a ketchup bottle made from 100% sustainably sourced wood pulp.

A Redditor revealed an unexpected second life for your go-to condiment's plastic bottles — oil holders. Instead of shelling out for a specialized oil dispenser that might not work as well or be prone ...