April 2022

Altshausen, 19April,2022 –STADLER and KRONES have collaborated in the design and installation of a new sorting and washing plant for Kunststoff Recycling GrünstadtGmbH (KRG), a German recycling company serving the plastics processing industry. The facilityfor processing post-consumer HDPE and polypropylene (PP) packaging wasteis the first of its kind in the country: it closes the plastics […]

Toyo Printing Inks Inc., a member of the Tokyo-based specialty chemicals manufacturer Toyo Ink Group, announced today that its LP-9000 TOYO LIFE PREMIUM FOOD LO/LM series of sheetfed offset inks have passed the INGEDE (International Association of the Deinking Industry) deinkability criteria according to the European Recovered Paper Council’s (ERPC) scorecard.

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee along with YB Scientific R&D Solutions have jointly developed a process to produce cement free paver block and wall tiles from waste polyethylene packets, milk packets and oil packets in an environment friendly way. Named as PRAYASPR, it can be an attractive option for managing plastic wastes by the waste producers as per the Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules 2021, says the institute.

A group of chemicals known as PFAS does a fine job when food needs to be packaged, resisting grease and water. But the so-called “forever chemicals” don’t break down in the environment and can leach from containers and move through soils, contaminating drinking water sources. Not very appetizing.