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Compostability is one of those contentious topics in the plastics packaging space. In general, consumers and companies seem to like the idea. In fact, brands and suppliers typically center their sustainable goals by pledging to...
What is the value of compostable packaging? Why do we need it as part of a suite of solutions that improve the sustainability of packaging? Compostable packaging has value when it lets us: Capture and...
Flint Group, including all business units within its Packaging and its Commercial Publication & Web divisions, has achieved a Silver status from EcoVadis, the world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings with...
Flint Group, including all business units within its Packaging and its Commercial Publication & Web divisions, has achieved a Silver status from EcoVadis, the world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings with...
Printpack, a US-based manufacturer of flexible and specialty rigid packaging, is pleased to announce a strategic partnership with Sirane, a UK-based leader in paper coating and paper-based packaging. Together, the two companies will jointly enable...
Constantia Flexibles’ EcoPressoLid, a lidding material for coffee capsules, has been awarded ‘OK Compost Industrial’ by TÜV Austria. It is the producer’s first certified compostable product and potential game-changer for coffee suppliers who focus on...
Anyone who has hosted a party (and had to clean up afterward) knows it can end up being more than a little wasteful. From the food to the decor and supplies, a lot of things...
Siegwerk, one of the leading global providers of printing inks and coatings for packaging applications, commissioned a new solvent-based Blending Center at Siegwerk’s Bhiwadi facility in India. The new Blending Center, spread across 3400 Sq.M,...
Bryson brings more than 30 years of packaging development experience to Barry-Wehmiller. In her previous roles with Wells Enterprises and PepsiCo, she developed and supported the development of packaging innovation and sustainability roadmaps. Most recently,...
MeetingPack, the biannual event organized by AINIA and AIMPLAS, which attracts members of the entire packaging value chain, has announced its MP2022 Awards as a new feature of this year’s edition. These awards aim to...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a Letter of No Objection for Revolution's proprietary recycling method to produce post-consumer recycled, linear low-density polyethylene (PCR-LLDPE) for food contact applications. PCR produced under Revolution's...
The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) announced the formation of a new coalition of companies and organizations committed to creating resources to recycle small format packaging and other materials. This is the first coalition of its kind...
Georgia’s Macon-Bibb County Mayor Lester Miller has withdrawn his support for Brightmark to construct an advanced plastics recycling and renewal facility in Macon, Georgia. Brightmark, a global waste solutions provider based in San Francisco, had...
Dow, based in Midland, Michigan, has announced an investment into Mr. Green Africa as part of their Series B fundraising round to enable further diversion of plastic waste from informal dumpsites and the environment. The...
Keurig Canada will pay millions of dollars in penalties and alter its coffee pod recyclability claims, as part of a legal settlement with Canadian regulators. Canada’s Competition Bureau on Jan. 6 announced the agreement, which...
Recycled-content laws are a tool for driving post-consumer resin demand. But what if producers are given too many outs, feedstock is in short supply, or the mandates actually result in greater environmental harm? Those were...
Printpack, a leader in flexible and specialty rigid packaging committed to developing and commercializing sustainable packaging solutions, announces an investment in Nexus Circular (Nexus), a leader in advanced recycling technology. Nexus diverts and economically converts...
When Thailand-based I.P. One, a manufacturer and distributor of leading fabric care products, set out to install fabric softener refill stations for their Hygiene brand in retail stores, they opted for a bag-in-box solution that...
Plastic Energy, a chemical recycler based in London, and TotalEnergies, an energy company based in Paris, have announced the construction of an advanced recycling plant in Sevilla, Spain. The plant will transform end-of-life plastic...
The company has successfully brought its breakthrough technology to market and has positioned itself as a world leader in the field. TIPA’s products are used by some of the world’s largest brands and retailers in...
Plastic has been around for more than a century and is one of the most vilified materials worldwide. Why? Plastic is used for everything from industrial packaging to consumer goods to single-use masks—all because plastic...
BillerudKorsnäs has been awarded the Climate Prize as part of the supplier engagement initiative “Join us in protecting the planet”, driven by Tetra Pak. The company, which is one of BillerudKorsnäs’ most important customers, launched...
A law banning plastic packaging for large numbers of fruits and vegetables comes into force in France on New Year’s Day, to end what the government has called the “aberration” of overwrapped carrots, apples and...
What comes around goes around: Your discarded plastic water bottle may soon become part of your next car. Automakers are racing to make their vehicles more sustainable -- the industry's favorite buzzword -- by turning...
The Canadian Government has published draft regulations that prohibit the use of some single-use plastics in the country for public comment. Announced by Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault and Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos,...
Cortec® Corporation is very excited to receive industrial compostability certification of it’s Eco Wrap® stretch film! Cortec® received the ‘OK compost INDUSTRIAL’ certificate from TÜV Austria on November 24th. This certifies that Eco Wrap® conforms...
As consumer brands are increasingly demanding sustainable labels on their packaged goods without added material costs, Acucote has introduced a line of 25 USDA Certified Biobased products. Materials include coated, uncoated, fluorescents, tag and digital...
Toppan, a global leader in communication, security, packaging, décor materials, and electronics solutions, has published the English version of its Sustainability Report 2021 on its corporate website. The Sustainability section of Toppan’s website has also...