September 2022

This New Domino’s Box Settles The Argument of Whether or Not You Can Recycle it

Imagine the scene: After you and and your partner enjoy a margarita pizza and a bottle of wine, you stare at the empty, greasy box and discuss what to do with it. You believe you should put the box in the recycling bin; they’re worried that all the leftover cheese and oil on the cardboard will contaminate the recycling system. You both want to do the right thing, but it isn’t entirely clear what that is. Perhaps the discussion ends amicably, perhaps it does not.

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HUL Accelerates Plastic Waste Management with New Startup Challenge

News / Packaging 360

Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) has announced the ‘TRANSFORM Plastics Challenge’- a programme to accelerate Indian startups. TRANSFORM is a joint initiative between Unilever, the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), and EY. This challenge, in collaboration with Social Alpha, will help tech startups from India working in the areas of plastic waste management and circularity.

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Beverage Packaging Needs to Adopt Aluminium to Cut Carbon Footprint

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India is estimated to have consumed 534 crore litres of alcohol in 2021 of which only about 20 per cent was packed in aluminium cans

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Nippon Paper and Mitsui Chemicals Partner to Develop Biocomposite

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Nippon Paper Industries Co., Ltd. (Tokyo: 3863; President: NOZAWA Toru) and Mitsui Chemicals, Inc. (Tokyo: 4183; President & CEO: HASHIMOTO Osamu) are set to partner in the development of a new biocomposite with a high content of cellulose powder, a woody biomass material.

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Waste-Based Plastic Substitute From UBQ Materials Now Used For PepsiCo Displays And Shipping Pallets

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Pop or soda, beer and food are displayed in stores and shipped around the world.
The displays are usually made from plastics that last forever, produced from oil-based resins. Shipping pallets for the goods are often treated with toxic chemicals to make them last.

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BMW Group Backs Sustainable Packaging in its Logistics

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+++ Increase in proportion of recycled material in packaging +++ Nikolaides, Head of Logistics: “We are leveraging various options to save carbon emissions and raw materials.” +++ Other pilot projects underway +++

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Borealis and Trexel Develop New Reusable and Fully Recyclable Lightweight Bottle

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Borealis and Trexel, a leading expert in foaming injection and blow moulded parts, announce that they have co-developed a new plastic bottle based on a grade from the Bornewables™ portfolio of polyolefins made using renewable feedstocks derived 100% from waste and residue streams.

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New Trademarked Certification for Reusable Plastics

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New certification scheme by AIMPLAS tests chemical safety of reusable plastic food packaging prior to consumer use, including non-intentionally added substances (NIAS); tests physical characteristics after five dishwasher cycles

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EMC Launches Expert Training Sessions on Life Cycle Assessment in Packaging

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EMC conducted a 2-day training program on Sustainable Packaging for Nivea. Three senior members of the packaging team of Nivea attended. Topics covered included trends in sustainable packaging post COVID-19, relevant packaging regulations and use of life cycle assessment (LCA) in packaging design.

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Plastic Teabags Release Microscopic Particles into Tea

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Many people are trying to reduce their plastic use, but some tea manufacturers are moving in the opposite direction: replacing traditional paper teabags with plastic ones.

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Packaging – Think beyond ‘Must have’

Insights / Shivaji Chakraborty

Next couple of years packaging will experience a sea change and the manufacturer/brand owners must think beyond the basic functions of packaging, i.e., protect the product and deliver it to the consumers in a sound condition with an optimum cost.

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The Attached Caps’ Standards is About to be Published, What Comes Next ?

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The Cetie “Single-Use Plastic (SUP)” group has been working for almost four years on this topic, related to European Directive 2019/904 “on the reduction of the impact of certain plastic products on the environment”, better known as the Single-Use Plastic Directive (SUPD). Starting in 2018, before the directive was even published, Cetie had begun drawing up a normative response to Article 6 of the directive, which requires plastic bottles to have caps that remain attached to the bottles, from 2024 onwards.

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This New Domino’s Box Settles The Argument of Whether or Not You Can Recycle it

HUL Accelerates Plastic Waste Management with New Startup Challenge

Beverage Packaging Needs to Adopt Aluminium to Cut Carbon Footprint

Nippon Paper and Mitsui Chemicals Partner to Develop Biocomposite

Waste-Based Plastic Substitute From UBQ Materials Now Used For PepsiCo Displays And Shipping Pallets

BMW Group Backs Sustainable Packaging in its Logistics

Borealis and Trexel Develop New Reusable and Fully Recyclable Lightweight Bottle

New Trademarked Certification for Reusable Plastics

EMC Launches Expert Training Sessions on Life Cycle Assessment in Packaging

Plastic Teabags Release Microscopic Particles into Tea

Packaging – Think beyond ‘Must have’

The Attached Caps’ Standards is About to be Published, What Comes Next ?

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