As food costs continue to rise and a global food crisis looms on the horizon, it’s staggering to think that some 30-40 percent of America’s food supply ends up in landfills, mostly due to spoilage. At the same time, the World Health Organization estimates that foodborne illness from microbial contamination causes about 420,000 deaths per year worldwide.
Ahead of the total ban on Single Use Plastic (SUP) from July 1, about 200-odd brand owners, including several MNCs, and 26 importers of plastic have registered for the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for plastic packaging under the amended Plastic Waste Management Rules 2016.
As society continues to reckon with our packaging crisis it has become clear that we need a solution to the linear ‘take, make, waste’ model we have all become accustomed to. Businesses are prompting a paradigm shift as they re-evaluate the ways that they design, produce, and package the products we use in our daily …
Huhtamaki has welcomed the conclusions of a new report, which reviews 26 scientific studies comparing the environmental impact of single-use packaging vs reusable tableware used in takeaway settings.
The world’s third-largest flexible packaging manufacturer launches the first ready-to-be-recycled mono-material based on polypropylene (PP) with high chemical resistance for pharmaceutical products.
Chennai-based start-up Greenpod Labs has invented bioactive sachets that claim to reduce the spoilage of fresh fruits and vegetables
Toppan has developed a new hologram – Illumigram™, on which three-dimensional images appear in response to strong light, such as a smartphone’s flashlight.
Banyan Nation, a Hyderabad-based vertically integrated plastic recycling company, recently announced that they produced over 300 million FMCG bottles from recycled plastic in the past year for major clients like Hindustan Unilever, Shell, HPCL and Reckitt.
The theme of the panel discussion was “Packaging in the Next ten Years” organized as part of the roadshow hosted by Messe Meunchen India, in collaboration with IPMMI, PHDC.
SHANGAI, CHINA – June 20, 2022 – Dow’s recyclable packaging solution, enabled by INNATE™ TF Polyethylene Resins for Tenter Frame Biaxial Orientation (TF-BOPE), is now officially certified in China to reduce carbon emissions by 35 percent compared to traditional unrecyclable packaging materials, supporting brand owners in achieving their carbon reduction goals.
MUTTENZ, JUNE 21, 2022 – Moving circular plastic packaging forward. In a first and unique collaboration for the Personal Care industry, Clariant, Siegwerk, Borealis, and Beiersdorf are combining expertise to tackle the challenge of creating recyclable consumer packaging, based on 100% retrieved plastic packaging waste, for cosmetics applications. The pioneering initiative, named “Design4Circularity”, is providing innovations and insights for the different design aspects to encourage others to also follow design for circularity principles.
UPM Solide Lucent is a versatile specialty kraft paper that allows sustainability and high performance to go hand in hand: A recyclable packaging paper from renewable sources that does not compromise on functionality.
