Ardagh has three glass manufacturing plants in Yorkshire, and is partnering Reuse to increase the volume of cullet, which has so far boosted recycling for clear glass by 12%. West Yorkshire based Reuse is one of the UK’s leading ...
Tags: clear glass, Ardagh Glass, Recycling Push, Packaging
Titan Internaltional Inc. posted a net loss of $20.5 million on net sales of $523.7 million for the its second quarter ended June 30, 2014. That compares to net income of $23.2 million on sales of $593.3 million for the same period last ...
Tags: Titan, Loss, Accessories
The desire to create packaging that is more beneficial for the environment is certainly not a new trend. For years, designers and manufacturers have worked hard to produce packaging that is easy to recycle and wastes as little material as ...
Multi-Material British Columbia (MMBC) is set to expand recycling services to an additional five communities through its industry-funded program. On 2 July curbside collections were launched in the city of Coquitlam and plans are in ...
Nissan has opened its second manufacturing facility in Thailand, which will produce the NP300 Navara, a new generation pickup truck. The 580,000m2 plant was built with an investment of THB3.7bn ($114.3m), and will support the region with ...
Tags: Auto Parts, Nissan, Truck
The Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (APEAL) has welcomed the new waste and recycling targets adopted by the European Commission last week. The Commission announced a 70 percent recycling objective for steel, rising ...
Tags: Steel Packaging, Steel
The Alliance for Beverage Cartons & the Environment (ACE) UK has welcomed the latest figures, which it said was equivalent to approximately 425,000 tonnes of cartons recycled, and also showed the total recovery rate was now 71% across the ...
The recycling of beverage cartons in Europe has reached 42% in 2013, according to new data provided by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE). Compared to 2012, it represents a 3% rise, while the total recovery rate, ...
Tags: Packaging, Printing, beverage cartons
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
UK-based vehicle manufacturer and a subsidiary of General Motors, Vauxhall Motors has inked a long term agreement with the vehicle recycling company Autogreen. As per the deal, the manufacturer will see that all its vehicles handled by ...
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Automotive manufacturer Ford Motor has partnered with the US-based HJ Heinz Food Company to research if the tomato fiber can be used to develop a more sustainable bio-plastic material for vehicles. With the collaboration, the automaker ...
Tags: Vehicle, Auto Parts
Consisting of a microchip-controlled battery, atomizer and liquid nicotine cartridge, E-Cigarettes give you an instantaneous hit of nicotine. While inhaling the harmless vapor, the tip of the E-Cigarette lights up to mimic an actual ...
Sustainability initiatives in the European coatings sector have reached a new phase with a much stronger focus on issues like low carbon footprints of products and waste reductions. Previously the industry has been concentrating on ...
Tags: Coatings, Construction, Decoration
The FMCG giant, one of the UK’s biggest users of packaging, has released its latest sustainability update which said it used around 178,000 tonnes of packaging, including glass, aluminium and PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic, ...
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 ...