As you’ve no doubt noticed, there’s a worryingly large amount of plastic pollution, and scientists are working hard to find ways to use plastic without causing so much long-term damage to the environment around us.
VOID Technologies, a materials science company, has officially opened its first US-based, plastic reduction research labs and compound manufacturing facility to help packaging manufacturers and brand owners transition to more sustainable plastics and packaging.
Unique recycling technology helps the industry close the loop on PVDC-coated PET films
The Huhtamaki Foundation inaugurated its first recycling plant in Khopoli, Maharashtra today to help drive circularity for packaging. The site – which is spread across 2,000 square meters – will recycle about 1,600 kilograms of post-consumer used flexible plastic waste per day from early May as the plant becomes fully operational. The Central Pollution Board of India (2012) estimates that India generates close to 26,000 tonnes of plastic waste a day and a little over 10,000 tonnes a day of plastic waste remains uncollected.
Grasping complexity and acting proactively on sustainability is key to ensure successful compliance with packaging laws and avoid financial sanctions.
The solution we are presenting at Ipack-IMA 2022 is an OK Compost certified biodegradable food packaging made with Ticinoplast film obtained from Novamont’s MATER-BI biopolymer, printed by Masterpack on a flexographic machine with compostable inks and then packaged on an IMA Ilapak Vegatronic 6400HD bagging machine.
Circular economy for flexible packaging starts with design, and to redesign the packaging for sustainability, we must consider beyond the raw material.
Mumbai-based start-up Zerocircle zeroed in on the humble seaweed in its search for a replacement to single-use plastic
The report focuses on carbon storage in forest products and avoided fossil-based CO2 emissions when using wood-based raw materials to replace non-renewable raw materials.
Today, Trivium Packaging releases its 2022 Global Buying Green Report, based on a survey of more than 15,000 consumers across Europe, North America, and South America on their values & behaviors related to sustainable packaging, including willingness to pay more for eco-friendly packaging, perceptions of materials, and interest in refillable packaging.
The white paper is overview by McKinsey & Company of the various different era’s the packaging industry has went through and what the coming focus areas should be sustainability and digitalisation.
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
