One of the world’s biggest food and consumer goods companies is set to introduce carbon footprint labels on its products for the first time by the end of the year – marking a key moment in the shift to badge products with their cost to the planet, The Independent reveals today.
The Association of Plastic Recyclers has recognized three shrink label innovations for their compatibility with PET recycling processes.
In recent months, APR awarded critical guidance letters acknowledging that Siegwerk’s washable inks, CCL Label’s floating polyolefin label, and Garware Polyester’s crystallizable co-polyester film with washable inks meet the APR Design Guide for Plastics Recyclability.
New Delhi: Packaged food company Mondelez India has awarded a grant to Bengaluru-based NGO Hasiru Dala that will pilot a project to recycle multi-layered plastic (MLP) waste to build alternatives to plywood that can have both commercial as well as consumer usages.
The ALPLA Group, a global packaging producer and specialist in recycling, is consolidating its developments in relation to biodegradable packaging solutions under its new Blue Circle Packaging label. Home-compostable coffee capsules are the first product available on the market.
(HUL) on Friday said it has launched its first ‘Smart Fill’ machine, an in-store vending model for its home care products to reuse, reduce and
Going green seems to be the mantra by several brands, which are opting for sustainable packaging of their products. Consider the following: Dabur is removing outer paper cartons from its toothpaste brand Dabur Red Paste; Flipkart is working towards reducing the need for an outer layer of packaging and has eliminated all single-use plastic packaging.
Portugal, Lisbon – July 6th, 2021 – Tetra Pak announces the end of an era, as it stops plastic straw production at Tetra Pak Tubex Portugal. The Lisbon-based factory has already changed all its production lines, which will only produce paper straws from now on.
A Swiss food testing company SwissDeCode has launched the A2 INSIDE Label, which is intended to help end user to identify the efforts of dairy producers in guaranteeing authentic A2 milk products.
Tech Mahindra a major Indian IT company is partnering with start-up StaTwig, a Singapore and Hyderabad, India based digital supply chain solution provider, to implement a new blockchain-based traceability solution for vaccines, VaccineLedger.
Stuttgart, July 2021 – Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is a high-value material that is on course to take over a key function in the plastics industry’s path toward a circular economy. PET flakes can now be processed without pre-drying into pellets using Coperion ZSK twin screw extruders. Next they are condensed in the SSP (Solid State Polycondensation) reactor, and reprocessed back into bottles again with the quality of virgin material.
In 2020 one in three wines sold in bottles across the globe came with aluminium closures, according to the latest IWSR Drinks Market Analysis. While still wine consumption decreased by 10% to 19 billion litres (or 25.3 billion 0.75l bottle equivalents) more than 85% continued to be bought in bottles (glass and plastic), followed by liquid cartons and bag-in-box.
Move will save one billion plastic lids – enough to fill 35 Olympic swimming pools – from being sent to landfill every year globally Heinz will
