The European Union (EU) has unveiled a new strategy on plastics as part its efforts to protect the environment from plastic pollution. Under the new strategy, EU intends to turn all plastic packaging into recyclable by 2030, in addition ...
Tags: Plastic Packaging, plastic waste
Gosport Borough Council and paper cup manufacturer Huhtamaki have initiated a recycling initiative for paper coffee cups in Gosport, UK. Environment Minister, Thérèse Coffey, has today launched a new recycling initiative for ...
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Foodservice retailer McDonald’s said by 2025, it plans to use packaging that come from renewable, recycled or certified sources. The company announced goals to enhance its packaging and help reduce waste to positively impact the ...
Sensor-based sorting technology provider Tomra Sorting Recycling has secured a contract from Australia-based SKM Recycling (SKM) to supply automated sorting technology. Under the contract, Tomra will supply 40 Autosort units featuring new ...
DS Smith Recycling is calling for a more sustainable festive season with the launch of its Christmas recycling guidelines. With Christmas cards, wrapping paper, and packaging all heading home with us this Christmas, it’s important ...
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Plastics Recyclers Europe has introduced an updated version of Design for Recycling Guidelines. The amended guidelines differentiate between the coloured and non-coloured polyolefin packaging. In addition, the guidelines will soon be ...
Of 3.1 million tons of PET bottles and containers placed in Europe last year, a 59.8% (1.88 million tons) of them were collected and 1.77 million tons have been recycled, according to a survey by Petcore Europe. The survey revealed that ...
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Tomra, a Norwegian firm engaged in the field of instrumentation for recycling solutions, has unveiled a new solution for separating single-layer PET trays from PET bottles. The solution improves the earlier capability of the ...
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Packaging firm Schaumaplast has launched a product made from biomass-balanced Styropor from BASF. The firm produced the new Styropor packaging for ice cream from IceGuerilla.de, a start-up engaged in sending ice creams in Germany. ...
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European Plastics Converters (EuPC), a European trade association, has surveyed plastics converters across Europe to look at the current and future use of recycled content as well as incentives and barriers to its use. With high targets ...
DS Smith said that it will participate in the coffee cup recycling trial that will be carried out at its Kemsley Paper Mill located in Sittingbourne, UK. Slated to begin in January 2018, the project is being carried out on behalf of the ...
Tags: Coffee Cup, corrugated case
LyondellBasell has agreed to purchase a 50% stake in Netherlands-based plastics recycling firm Quality Circular Polymers (QCP). The remaining 50% stake in the plastics recycling firm will be owned by French water and waste management firm ...
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Pratt Industries has designed a new packaging for Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams, as part of the ecommerce inside print packaging series. Jeni provides ice creams in 32 company-owned scoop shops across the US, in addition to shipping ...
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Europac Group has exhibited its packaging solutions at this year’s Europack Euromanut event in Lyon, France. At the event, the company has exhibited packaging items, which are targeted at the consolidated heavy duty sector. The ...
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Plastico has partnered with Closed Loop Environmental Solutions to introduce the first Closed Loop compliant plastic cup in the UK. Slated to be launched in January 2018, each purchase of the cup will comprise of a contribution from the ...
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