Sustainability

UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe – representing the European soft drinks industry (1) – joins “Close the Glass Loop” – the major industry stewardship programme for glass packaging (2) initiated by FEVE – EU Federation of the container glass. The platform has the objective to achieve a post-consumer glass container collection target of 90%, and to ensure that this is recycled into the container glass production loop to come back as a new packaging.

Coperion Delivers Innovative Closed-Loop Solution.

“Concerns around food hygiene due to Covid-19 could increase plastic packaging intensity, undoing some of the early progress made by companies,”

Berlin, 18 March 2020 – “If we wanted to condense the gist of the report, we could say that EASAC discourages all the innovations that appear in the industrial sector currently dominated by fossil-based plastics”, says François de Bie, Chairman of European Bioplastics (EUBP) in response to the report ‘Packaging plastic in the circular economy’ recently published by the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC).

As any consumer packaging, also tube laminates are becoming more sustainable and circular.

A switch to other recycling technologies that can handle these materials and keep taking advantage of the value of PE/PA multilayer packaging! Now that is possible with APK AG’s Newcycling® technology:

EverMinds™ in practice: Another milestone reached in Borealis’ efforts to advance the circular economy
Kallo and Beringen production sites receive ISCC Plus certification
Collaboration with upstream and downstream value chain partners such as Neste and Henkel

With the shared goal of making a more sustainable future happen today, Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines, Inc. (CCBPI)—the bottling arm of Coca-Cola in the country—and Thailand-headquartered Indorama Ventures have signed a joint-venture agreement to establish PETValue, the largest state-of-the-art, bottle-to-bottle recycling facility in the Philippines.