On 12 November, Packaging News organised a conference in conjunction with British Glass, bringing together members of the UK glass industry to discuss ways of improving recycling in Britain. The central London conference included talks ...
Tags: Glass Industry, Recycling
It all happened very quickly in advance of the EU Environment Council’s meeting in Brussels on December 17. The EU decided to scrap the Circular Environment package because in 2015 “we want to put something on the table that is ...
Volunteers from CCE and Every Can Counts will engage with members of the public about recycling whilst they are queuing to claim their free sample of Coca-Cola product available at the Christmas truck tour stops. While distributing free ...
Tags: Coca-Cola, Christmas Truck
The Welsh Government has published guidance on waste management, ahead of new EU legal requirements on the separate collection of waste paper, metal, plastic and glass for recycling, due to come into force at the start of next year. All ...
Tags: Waste Management, waste paper
Australian businesses are generating an average of 1.7 tonnes of waste per employee yet only recycling half that amount. 80% of employees would like to see more recycling in their workplace. To spur recycling, NSW Environment Protection ...
Tags: recycling equipment, Packaging
The proportion of UK local authorities collecting beverage cartons for recycling from kerbside has reached 60%, according to figures released by the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) UK. ACE stated that this was a ...
Tags: Beverage, wood fibres, Agriculture
Linpac calls the UK home. But it has had a manufacturing site in Bunbury, Perth since 2013 and in 2015 it will have a new one in Melbourne. With a site on both the east and west sides of Australia, Linpac intends to supply the latest design ...
Tags: manufacturing site, technology, Packaging
Flexible packaging such as plastic bags, confectionery wrappers, frozen food bags and pouches makes up nearly a third (32%) of consumer plastic packaging in the UK, however virtually all of this 556,000 tonnes produced annually ends up in ...
Few companies in the UK have come together to start work on a two-year project called 'Reflex,' with the hope of significantly improving the recyclability of flexible packaging and diverting more of it away from the landfill. The project ...
Tags: flexible packaging, landfill, Packaging
U.S. Zinc is commemorating the company’s opening in 1949, celebrating 65 successful years in the zinc products marketplace. The company’s roots were as a wholesaler of nonferrous metals. Now, U.S. Zinc is a premier global ...
Tags: U.S.Zinc, Construction
RPC Emballages Moirans, a company that specialises in manufacturing extrusion blow moulding, has developed RPC Protect, a new barrier solution for its range of blow moulded containers up to 30 litres. The product claims to provide an ...
AkzoNobel is part of a major Dutch partnership working with Canada’s Enerkem to explore the use of waste streams as a feedstock for chemical production and the development of waste-to-chemicals facilities. The collaboration features ...
Tags: AkzoNobel, Chemicals Feedstock
Tandus Centiva recently recognized Chattanooga Airport for recycling 47,000 pounds of Powerbondback into new material. The Powerbond installation was in use for 23 years, with more than 640,000 people traveling through the Chattanooga ...
Tags: Tandus Centiva, Flooring
Almost one-in-five (19%) of respondents said they do not recycle regularly because they aren’t sure about how and where to recycle their packaging. Additionally, a lack of understanding about what to recycle has resulted in half the ...
At a ceremony on 23 October at Mercure Holland House Hotel in Cardiff (organized by UK-based business publisher Insider Media Ltd), plasma etch, deposition and thermal wafer processing equipment maker SPTS Technologies Ltd of Newport, ...
Tags: SPTS, Green Manufacturer Prize