More than 40 million 45g KitKat bars will be packed in the 30% recycled content wrapper in the next year, cutting virgin plastic use by around 250,000m2, enough to cover more than 200 50m swimming pools.
New Delhi, Coca-Cola Company on Monday said its India business is hopeful of achieving 100 per cent recovery and recycling of post-consumer packaging, mainly bottles and cans, in the next 2-3 years as part of its ‘World Without Waste’ initiative.
Perturbed by the government’s Sunday directive on the effective implementation of the ban on single-use plastics (SUPs), the industry has sought an immediate deferment in the commissioning of this law at least for a year and a compensation package for those who will have to shut down their operations because of this regulation.
Forthcoming EU policy framework on bio-based, biodegradable and compostable plastics With the public consultation phase now closed, the forthcoming EU policy framework on bio-based, biodegradable and compostable plastics is nearing completion and is expected to be adopted in the second quarter of 2022. It is a crucial piece of legislation for the bioplastics industry, and European Bioplastics …
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Mother Dairy began its plastic waste collection and recycling/co-processing initiative in Maharashtra in FY2018-19 under the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) programme and scaled up the initiative on a pan-India level for Multi-Layered Plastic Waste (MLP) in FY2019-20, in line with the Plastic Waste Management (PWM) Rules 2018 as amended.
MUMBAI, India, June 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Today, global beer brand Corona announced the launch of a new 100% biodegradable and compostable six-pack made from 100% barley straw in India. This new circular form of packaging reaffirms Corona’s larger goal of protecting and preserving nature. Corona’s new six-pack made from 100% barley straw aligns with this year’s World Environment Day theme of ‘Only One Earth’, focusing on “Living Sustainably in Harmony with Nature”.
ACTEGA, manufacturer of specialty coatings, inks, adhesives and sealing compounds for the print and packaging industry, today unveils its latest strategic commitments towards operating more sustainably and supporting a more sustainable future for the industry.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India(FSSAI) has published a draft regulations to amend the Food Safety and Standards (Packaging) Regulations, 2018. FSSAI proposes to make with previous approval of the Central Government, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 92 read with section 23 of the Food Safety and …
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Compostable packaging is popularly seen as an answer to plastic pollution, but while it has a role to play in a circular economy, it is not a silver bullet. Any time a piece of packaging is used once – no matter how it is disposed of – it is single-use. Preventing waste in the first place should be top priority.
In a Dutch industrial composting plant, compostable bioplastics disintegrated faster than orange peels or paper, and PLA teabags degraded in 22 days. The results of these studies are summarized in TotalEnergies Corbion’s case study, “A comprehensive look at compostable plastics”.
New study shows that glass is safest among the packaging materials as it has virtually no detected chemicals and therefore is the safest for human health,” says Adeline Farrelly, Secretary General of FEVE the EU federation of container glass producers.
Tetra Pak, a world-leading packaging and processing solutions provider, has joined hands with Reliance-owned Milkbasket, India’s first and largest daily micro-delivery service to help consumers recycle their used beverage cartons through Milkbasket’s app.
