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Saica Acquires Spanish Waste Management Company Ecovidal
12.05.2023

Saica Natur, the recycling arm of Spanish Saica Group, is expanding its recycling activities in Spain. The packaging group announced the takeover of waste management and collection company Ecovidal-Miguel Vidal e Hijos in the Madrid...

ProAmpac Wins 2023 AmeriStar Award for Packaging Innovation Designed for Purina Pro Plan Pet Food
11.28.2023

ProAmpac, a leader in flexible packaging and material science, in collaboration with Nestlé Purina PetCare, celebrates winning a 2023 AmeriStar Award in the shelf-stable food category. The win recognizes ProAmpac’s latest recyclable packaging innovation –...

Plastic Bag Drop-off Guide is Taken Off-line
11.28.2023

A long-running comprehensive guide to public drop-off sites accepting plastic film has been taken down, leaving a gap in consumer-facing recycling information for bags and other flexible packaging. The Film Drop-Off Directory, which was housed...

Dual Cure Ink Puts Flint Group and All4Labels on Shared Path to Success
11.28.2023

Flint Group and All4Labels ('A4L') have collaborated to fast-track innovation in flexo printing through eco-conscious inks and processes. Hamburg-headquartered A4L is already reaping the benefits of more energy-efficient curing after switching to Flint Group's EkoCure®...

Aquapak Wins 4evergreen’s Award for Addressing Recycling Challenges
11.21.2023

Aquapak Polymers Ltd has won 4evergreen’s award for addressing recycling challenges, part of its Circular Success Stories, which celebrates breakthrough projects and can serve as inspiring examples of fiber-based packaging circularity and sustainability. Specifically, Hydropol,...

Cellulotech Wins Renewable Materials Sustainability Award from Packaging Europe
11.21.2023

Cellulotech, the Canadian material science startup, has received an award from Packaging Europe in the Pre-Commercialized Renewable Material Sustainability category. The jury of experts from Packaging Europe announced the award for Cellulotech’s green chemistry process,...

How Packaging Suppliers Can Help Trim Costs
11.21.2023

If you’re in the produce industry and looking to enhance your bottom line — and who isn’t — your packaging supplier may be able to lend a hand. Box suppliers, flexible packaging providers and even...

ProAmpac Commercializes High-Performance ProActive PCR Retort Pouches
11.20.2023

ProAmpac, a leader in flexible packaging and material science, is proud to announce its ProActive PCR® Retort pouches containing post-consumer recycled (PCR) material. This new offering is just one of the many options ProAmpac’s ProActive...

LyondellBasell to Build Industrial-scale Advanced Recycling Plant in Germany
11.20.2023

LyondellBasell announced it has made the final investment decision to build the company's first industrial-scale catalytic advanced recycling demonstration plant at its Wesseling, Germany, site. Using LyondellBasell's proprietary MoReTec technology, this plant will be the...

Pregis Achieves ISCC PLUS Certification in Hopkinsville, Kentucky and Visalia, California Facilities
11.16.2023

Pregis®, a global leader in high-performance flexible packaging and protective packaging solutions, achieved International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certifications at its facilities in Hopkinsville, Ky., and Visalia, Calif. These certifications are a notable...

Nestlé Invests £7m in Pioneering Recycling Facility
11.16.2023

A breakthrough plastic recycling plant is set to open in Durham with a significant investment from Nestlé UK and Ireland. Impact Recycling will open the new facility to process hard-to-recycle flexible plastics, typically used in...

Clearwater Paper Collaborates with Charter Next Generation (CNG) to Launch Circular Polyethylene in Consumer Tissue Packaging
11.16.2023

Clearwater Paper Corporation (NYSE: CLW) today announced a collaboration with Charter Next Generation (CNG) for an early-to-market initiative to include advanced recycled polyethylene in Clearwater Paper's private label tissue packaging offerings. Advanced recycling includes difficult-to-recycle...

NY Files Unprecedented Lawsuit Against PepsiCo for Plastic Pollution
11.16.2023

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against PepsiCo Inc. on Nov. 15 for harming the public and the environment with its single-use plastic packaging. According to a press release from the Office...

Channeled Resources Group Earns Ecovadis Bronze Certification
11.16.2023

Channeled Resources Group (CRG), an industry-leading manufacturer of release liners, blank shipping labels, and pressure-sensitive roll label stock, as well as one of the world’s largest suppliers of reprocessed, coated, treated, and laminated papers and...

World’s Largest Plastic Recycling Plant Opens
11.15.2023

The world's biggest plant for sorting plastic packaging opened for business on, Nov. 15, which happens to be Recycling Day. Site Zero in Motala, Sweden, doubles plastic recycling compared to the previous benchmark plant, which...

Winners of the Sustainability Awards 2023 Announced!
11.15.2023

The winners of the Sustainability Awards 2023 – the most prestigious global competition for sustainable packaging innovation – have been announced at the Sustainable Packaging Summit in Amsterdam, during an awards dinner filled to the...

WRAP’s Plastics Pact Targets ‘Will Not Happen’ by 2025 Despite Progress
11.13.2023

WRAP has confirmed in a 2022/23 progress report on its Plastics Pact 2025 initiative that “regulation is critical to hitting all the targets and this will not happen in time for the 2025 deadline”. The...

New Report Examines Recycling Impact and Market Development
11.09.2023

Communities have operated recycling programs nationwide for decades, but more needs to be known about how well they create end markets for the materials they gather and the overall economic impact the programs create. That...

Partner with General Mills on Next-Gen Sustainable Packaging
11.09.2023

Halo is a free R&D partnering platform that connects researchers and innovators with companies like General Mills, Kraft Heinz, Unilever, and others. Through Halo, General Mills is seeking expert collaborators to help develop and test...

5 Examples of Sustainable Packaging Solutions for the Industry That Contribute to the Circular Economy
11.08.2023

Produce, use, reuse - by 2025, we want to design and develop 100 percent of Henkel's packaging so that it can be reused or recycled as completely as possible. This is because we want to...

Aquapak and University of Birmingham to Help Solve Global Plastics Crisis
11.08.2023

Aquapak disclosed details of an innovative ‘Prosperity Partnership’ with the University of Birmingham, aimed at addressing the pressing plastic waste issue, which poses a substantial societal challenge. This three-year endeavour, boasting collaboration among esteemed experts,...

APR, RecyClass Align on US-EU Design for Recyclability Guidance
11.08.2023

US-based Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and RecyClass, a cross-industry initiative to advance plastics circularity in Europe, are working together to harmonise their guidance for design for recyclability. To align with RecyClass guidance, the APR...

Amcor and NOVA Chemicals Announce Agreement to Source Mechanically Recycled Polyethylene
11.08.2023

Amcor, a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging solutions, announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with leading sustainable polyethylene producer NOVA Chemicals Corporation ("NOVA Chemicals") for the purchase of mechanically recycled polyethylene resin...

David Bankson of Fortis Provides Insights Into PCR Packaging’s Growth
11.06.2023

In an era where environmental concerns are paramount, the rise of post-consumer recycled (PCR) packaging is nothing short of a packaging industry revolution. This innovative approach provides solutions to some of the most pressing sustainability...

The Recognition of DIN CERTCO and BPI makes AIMPLAS the Laboratory with the Greatest Scope in Biodegradation and Compostability
11.02.2023

AIMPLAS has obtained from DIN CERTCO (TÜV Rheinland), an independent European certification body in the bioplastics market, recognition for its laboratories to carry out the tests that will allow companies to obtain the DIN Industrial...

Amcor FY23 Sustainability Report: The Future of Packaging is Here
11.02.2023

Amcor, a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging solutions, released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Sustainability Report. Entitled "The Future of Packaging is Here," the report details how Amcor is delivering on the...

Sorting Technology Advances Recycling Efforts
10.31.2023

The goal in the plastics industry is clear: The con­sumption of fossil raw materials must be reduced to the bare minimum. But how can our linear material flows be transformed into an efficient circular economy?...

World Not Poised to Meet MacArthur Foundation Global Commitment 2025 Goal
10.31.2023

Global efforts show progress on plastic pollution is possible – but the world remains off track to meet the necessary mark. Over the last five years, the Global Commitment, initiated by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation...

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