European Aluminium has announced that aluminium beverage cans are well above the future EU Circular Economy recycling targets. With an increase of 0.7%, the overall recycling rate of aluminium beverage cans in the European Union, ...
The British Plastics Federation (BPF), the trade association for the UK Plastic Industry, has released a plan to make 100% of plastic packaging reused, recycled or recovered. The intention forms part of a document, Plastics: A Vision for ...
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PepsiCo and The Recycling Partnership have agreed to work on a cross-sector approach to increasing recycling rates across America. The partnership will address the continued shortfall in US recycling rates. At present, still less than ...
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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 ...
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The supply of recycled material is not the issue; demand for recycled material has to be created by innovation in the sector. I recently presented a selection of the packaging-related outputs of BFF's work with Defra to develop a UK Soft ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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UK-based environmental solutions provider Valpak has sold its materials recycling facility to JWS Lancashire supported by JWS Recycling Services (JWS). The Preston facility was bought by Valpak's recycling arm Valpak Recycling North West ...
American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN) is all set to release the preliminary results of a survey of recovery activities in the 100 largest US cities in a public webinar to be held on 19 December 2012. Besides ...
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Demonstrating its commitment to optimizing packaging materials recovery in the United States, the American Institute for Packaging and the Environment (AMERIPEN) will release the preliminary results of a survey of recovery activities in the ...
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Ireland continued to exceed used packaging recovery and recycling goals of EU by recovering and recycling 652,000t in 2011, a rise of 4.1% compared to 2010, according to Repak. According to the industry funded organization Repak, ...
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US-based National Restaurant Association (NRA) and the Foodservice Packaging Institute (FPI) have partnered to host the inaugural Foodservice Packaging Recovery Summit on 7-8 November 2012 in Austin, Texas. The aim of the summit is to ...
Tags: Foodservice Packaging, online resource, pragmatic solutions