LyondellBasell could start construction on a world-scale chemical recycling plant in the next five to six years, the CEO said. "My hope is over the next five, six years, we're in construction of a world-scale...

To start dealing with Australia’s mounting plastic crisis, the federal government last week launched its first National Plastics Plan. The plan will fight plastic on various fronts, such as banning plastic on beaches, ending polystyrene...

A federal initiative focused on energy efficiency in U.S. manufacturing recently selected more than a dozen plastics recycling projects to support. They include efforts advancing PET recovery, mixed-plastics processing, chemical recycling and more. The REMADE...

PAC Machinery, a leader in the heat sealing and flexible packaging industry, announced the availability of their proprietary Recylene brand recycled/recyclable bag material. The new material blend features a unique formula containing over 50% recycled...

ChemFORWARD and the Sustainable Packaging Coalition have launched a new Collaborative to support companies in achieving their 2025 commitments to eliminate waste and single-use plastics. The SPC is the leading voice on sustainable packaging, with...

IndexBox has just published a new report: “EU - Plastic Packaging - Market Analysis, Forecast, Size, Trends and Insights.” Here is a summary of the report's key findings. According to the latest statistics from Eurostat,...

The value chain will continue to progress on design for recycling this year – but needs to continue to build cross-industry alignment and will look to regulators to provide a supportive landscape. Tim Sykes surveys...

Stakeholders across the supply chain discussed ways advanced recycling technologies can help brands to meet recycled-content goals during Clemson’s Food, Packaging & Sustainability Summit. In recent years, more brands have announced commitments to use recycled...

The demand for compostable packaging to replace traditional plastic food and beverage packaging is growing steadily, and that trend is predicted to continue for years to come. It’s no surprise that consumers are excited about...

ExxonMobil has completed the initial phase of a plant trial of a proprietary advanced recycling process for converting plastic waste into raw materials for production of high-value polymers. The trial, at the company’s existing facilities...

The Netherlands Institute for Sustainable Packaging’s (KIDV) Community of Practice (CoP) is a group that has set its sights on developing circular solutions for flexible packaging. Along with partners such as PepsiCo, Unilever, and Mars...

The Kraft Heinz Company announced the successful completion of a pilot project to demonstrate the use of roof board made from recycled flexible packaging. The test was made possible by the Company’s participation in Materials...

Through close and enduring collaboration BillerudKorsnäs and Tetra Pak aim to push the figure of renewable material from wood fibre in carton packages towards 100%. Already today the figure is about 70%. New innovations to...

Vita Nova is a new consortium of industry players promoting the use of mono-PET flexible packaging in the circular economy. BOPET Films Europe and Searious Business are launching the initiative and invite interested parties to...

Filling the market gap for premium and high-performance recyclable frozen food packaging, ProAmpac announces the launch of ProActive Recyclable R-2000F. This patent-pending film is the newest member of the ProActive Sustainability® product family and has...

NOVA Chemicals Corporation has developed a series of customizable film structure designs formulated with post-consumer resin (PCR). The film structures, which incorporate post-consumer low-density and linear low-density polyethylene (rLDPE/LLDPE), can be tailored to meet the...

A circular economy looks different within each industry, but its broad vision of healing the harm from the industrial economy’s extractive, polluting original sins is appealing more to a variety of businesses. A small number...

Maryland is currently considering legislation that would ban single-use plastic bags. But some say the pandemic is complicating things. Retailers in Maryland say a nationwide shortage of paper bags could make banning plastic bags difficult. Some...

Fmcg giants Mars and Nestlé have teamed up with Taylors of Harrogate and Ella’s Kitchen to crack down on flexible packaging waste. Dubbing themselves ‘the Flexible Packaging Consortium’ (FPC), the group of four suppliers has...

Toppan Printing, a global leader in communication, security, packaging, décor materials, and electronics solutions, has developed a more eco-friendly manufacturing method for offset printing that combines oil-based biomass ink with water-based varnish. ECOLUSTER is an...

Printpack partnered with General Mills to develop the first plastic film wrapper designated as Store Drop-Off Recyclable by How2Recycle® for the snacking industry. This bar wrapper, made from PE, was created for the iconic Nature...

Sainsbury’s is announcing the introduction of a recycling system which allows customers to recycle Polypropylene (PP) film found in several household plastic products, in selected Sainsbury’s stores. The launch of this new recycling system comes...

When I was a kid, I thought throwing my empty plastic water bottle into my recycle bin was going to help save the planet. After all, Captain Planet told me I had an important role...

The demand for flexible packaging materials is growing amid the transition towards sustainable food packaging. Walki has answered to this need by investing in a brand new flexo printing machine in its Jatne plant in...

Enval has launched Touchdown, a joint project with The Kraft Heinz Co. and Sonoco aimed at improving packaging sustainability and accelerating the deployment of novel plastic recycling solutions in the United States. For Enval,...

Plastics are among the most widely used materials, and they are vital components of all modern technologies. So far, it has been possible to recycle these valuable materials only to a limited extent. In order...

The Sustainability Consortium (TSC) released the THESIS Industry Insights: Packaging report using data from TSC’s The Sustainability Insight System (THESIS). This report is the first report in an ongoing series aimed at using THESIS’ unique...

A new Quality Recycling Process (QRP) for flexible packaging from CEFLEX and its stakeholders reportedly shows that high-value applications for recycled polymers from a mechanical recycling process are viable. CEFLEX says the breakthrough process has...