The Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) announced that over 31,000 tons of plastic, paper, metals and glass were recycled during 2011 by seventy-seven western Massachusetts municipalities. The recyclables were ...
Pratt Industries officially opened its $3.5m new material recovery facility (MRF) in Spartanburg County, South Carolina. According to the firm, the new plant recycles both residential and commercial single streams, cardboard, glass, ...
Woolworths South Africa, in partnership with Africa’s post-consumer plastic recycling firm Extrupet, rolled out new sustainable shopping bags for its product packaging. The newly unveiled reusable shopping bags, made from 100% rPET ...
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A Europe-wide life-cycle assessment conducted by Germany-based Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IFEU) has revealed that carton packs for ultra-high temperature (UHT) milk have a better environmental profile when compared to ...
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European corrugated giant Smurfit Kappa is set to invest £98m over three years in its Townsend Hook, Kent paper-making facility. The installation and commissioning of a five-meter, lightweight recycled container board machine is due ...
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CmiA cotton is grown exclusively using rainfed cultivation methods,meaning the smallholder farmers do without any form of supplemental irrigation.At zero cubic meters of freshwater per kilogram of cotton lint,this gives CmiA cotton a clear ...
Speaking exclusively to Packaging News, SCA Recycling UK business development director Simon Barnes said that 'rightweighting' (lightweighting) is the key to good design. He said an example of bad packaging would be a pack that used ...
US-based Avery Dennison will launch a new portfolio of Fasson Wash-off labels that provide label converters with a replacement for any existing wet-glue product and are suitable for both glass and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles. ...
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UK-based packaging supplier Invopak announced a distribution agreement with Polish company Cheko to stock its 100% oxy-biodegradable square and rectangle plastic buckets to recognize the industry’s need to take environmental issues ...
Vacmet India has announced its foray into the bi-axially-oriented polypropylene (BOPP) film business with the commencement of its new Brückner high speed film production line, which helps the company to bring up to 40,000t of ...
Innovative Waste Kaikoura (IWK) is certainly living up to its name, with more and more useable and potentially marketable material being produced at the Scarborough St site. The first stage of the glass recycling plant, a conveyor belt to ...
Global producer of aluminum rolled products Novelis has completed the sale of three European aluminum foil and packaging plants to American Industrial Acquisition's (AIAC) unit Eurofoil. The transaction includes foil rolling operations in ...
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The Glass Packaging Institute (GPI) today announced the winners of its 2012 Clear Choice Awards. This year, eight consumer product goods companies were recognized for their achievements in creating innovative glass packages with shelf ...
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The challenge in terms of sustainability: The glass production is a very energy intensive process, where a large part of the spent fossil energy, which is necessary for the melting process, is emitted to the atmosphere again without being ...
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Urban Barns Foods Canada has announced a collaborative research with McGill University over Cubic Agriculture growing practices. Urban Barns' Cubic Agriculture employs patent pending proprietary equipment to grow affordable vegetables in ...