The two-year REFLEX project, funded by the UK’s innovation agency, Innovate UK, aims to create a circular economy for flexible packaging – from confectionery wrappers to detergent pouches – by involving the whole supply ...
Recycling and preparing for reuse of packaging waste is to be increased to 80% (by weight) by 2030 with individual materials? required to recycle more. Paper, ferrous metal, aluminium and glass have been set a 90% target while plastic ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, Paper Recycling
Lismore mayor, Jenny Dowell, and Lismore MP, Thomas George, turned the first sod in the construction process for the new $3.65m Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) and glass processing plant in Lismore nine months ago. it was completed this ...
Ireland-based Antrim Borough Council, part of the arc21 waste management group, has announced the launch of new glass recycling policy. As part of the recycling process, the 100% recyclable metal caps and lids on glass bottles and jars ...
The organisation, representing the aluminium packaging producers, reprocessors, foil converters, can makers, fillers and brand owners in the UK, is confident of reaching a 46% aluminium packaging recycling target. However, despite ...
Tags: Aluminium Packaging, Printing, Packaging
Recycling campaigns are not without their detractors as their results are often met with more than a little scepticism and their long-term value often questioned. However, a number of communication programmes, developed by the Aluminium ...
Tags: Packaging Recycling, Packaging
The Australian Packaging Covenant (APC) has finished the year on a high note, with its 2013 annual report revealing strong progress in all its major activities and putting it on track to meet its strategic targets for 2015. APC chief ...
Society of the Plastics Industry (SPI) will collaborate with American Chemistry Council's (ACC) Plastics division to work on issues like recycling and growth opportunities of rigid packaging. Under the partnership, the ACC's Rigid ...
Tags: SPI, plastics, ACC, rigid packaging, recycling
Manufactured by Berry Plastics in the US, Stratos is a multi-polymer product that is said to have a stretch ration of 300% and a thickness of 11.4 micron. It was developed for the freezer industry and works in temperatures to minus 30 ...
Tags: New Stretch Film, Abco Kovex, Berry Plastics
UK-based rigid plastics packaging manufacturer RPC Group has selected clear polypropylene (PP) for sustainable packaging application for some of its products. The company uses PP for majority of its thermoformed, blow molded and thin ...
Tags: rigid plastics, Polypropylene
Carlsberg UK has become the newest member of the Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) and also joined the funding partners of the ‘Every Can Counts’ recycling program. The membership of Carlsberg marks the ...
The UK’s Aluminium Packaging Recycling Organisation (Alupro) has collaborated with British Glass and the European Aluminium Foil Association (EAFA) to launch a new recycling communications initiative for local authorities. Aimed ...
In 2012, 91 percent (29 million tons) of the corrugated packaging used in the U.S. was successfully recovered for recycling, maintaining its top position as the most-recycled packaging material. Recovery for recycling has increased ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, corrugated packaging, recycled packaging
As announced a couple of weeks ago, the European Union is getting ready to review its Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive, and with it the mandatory recycling targets set for packaging across the 27 member states. This is part of a ...
Defra, the Environment Agency and British Glass are also working on the project. According to the trade bodies, the key drivers for this project are to gain a better understanding of the volatility experienced in the market in 2012 and ...
Tags: Glass Pack, Packaging