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Sustainable Packaging Summit: RecyClass: Certification for transparent and reliable claims of recycled plastics
Miereia Boada of Plastics Recyclers Europe updates us on certification.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Prevented Ocean Plastic: A transformative approach to pollution in developing countries
Marine plastic pollution is one of the most catastrophic manifestations of the environmental problems associated with packaging. Prevented Ocean Plastics is a new and, we believe, potentially transformative program that’s addressing the crisis in an innovative and scalable way. Raffi Schieir (Director of Prevented Ocean Plastic) and David Jakubovich (Director and Founder of JS&IC) tell us more about the initiative, its potential impacts, and their learnings to date.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Avoiding tunnel vision
What does it take to make packaging truly sustainable? And how do we avoid focusing on only one aspect of sustainability while managing complexity and possible trade-offs?
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Scaling returnable packaging
Mark Buckley, Strategic Design Manager at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation will provide a glimpse of their new study, launching in November, that envisions and models future scaled reuse systems. Their findings show that to scale reuse, we need to design and build systems with a new approach that is truly collaborative.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Reviewing innovation in circular flexibles
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Reviewing innovation in circular flexibles
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Design-for-recycling vs recycling realities
Recycling expert Julian Thielen explores the disconnect between the capabilities of sorting plants built for multiwall packaging and the new generations of downgauged and mono substrates. Highlighting challenges for sorting and recycling that arise from packaging design, Julian points to possible future solutions.
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A look back at the year for corrugated and folding cartons
2023 has been a bumpy year for businesses and consumers alike, with rising inflation and interest rates, and a cost-of-living crisis. Against this backdrop, how have the European corrugated and folding cartons sectors faired? Neil Osment, Managing Director of paper packaging industry analysts NOA, takes a look.
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Redsmith Distillery unveils re-brand and move to 100% recycled glass packaging
Redsmith Distillery is launching gin in bottles that are made from 100% recycled glass and are reportedly 20% lighter than its previous bottles.
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Blue Ocean Closures receives investment from new co-owner Rottneros
Market pulp supplier Rottneros AB is investing in and becoming a co-owner of Blue Ocean Closures, with its sights now set on the further development of fibre-based packaging materials.
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Looking to the future: AI in production and logistics
Advances in AI (Artificial Intelligence) have made headlines and sparked both excitement and concern - but what are its roles and applications in the packaging industry? Frances Butler reports.
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RecyClass and EuCertPlast form combined plastics recycling process certification
EuCertPlast and RecyClass are combining their audit schemes for plastics recyclers to form the RecyClass Recycling Process Certification, a move hoped to build trust in recycling claims going forward.
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Thin, lightweight thermoforming film from SÜDPACK targets fresh and frozen fish
SÜDPACK’s new Multifol Extreme base film is set to offer thinner and more lightweight thermoforming packaging in vacuum and MAP applications for fish products; it will reportedly facilitate lower costs and emissions across the value chain.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Driving fibre-based packaging circularity - The 4evergreen industry toolbox
Sustainable Packaging Summit: Driving fibre-based packaging circularity - The 4evergreen industry toolbox
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Cartonboard: Circularity, leadership and responsibility
ProCarton’s Winfried Mühling shares a fibre-based approach to what it takes to be a leader in circularity in the context of the EU Green Deal, emphasising the need for cross-industry and cross-substrate collaboration. Winfried also shares results of latest consumer studies.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Compositional analysis of household waste
CEFLEX and Petcore have collaborated in large-scale research analysing the composition of post-consumer waste. Dana Mosora (CEFLEX) and Raphaël Jaumotte (Petcore) unpack the implications for efforts to drive up recycling rates in plastic packaging.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Outlook and developments in PET with Petcore
Petcore’s Raphaël Jaumotte shares latest developments in PET packaging. He will share Petcore’s activities and the objectives behind key projects that are structuring the PET industry, including digitalized platform for laboratories with the target to gather data on NIAS, depolymerization recycling for PET, and functional barrier.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: We need to talk about adhesives! The benefits of collaborating with adhesive suppliers at early stages of packaging R&D
Regulatory demands and the multiple, ever-evolving design for recycling guidelines make the development of sustainable packaging a complex task. Elizabeth Staab of HB Fuller explores the role of adhesives as an enabler of circular packages, and explains the importance of including adhesive suppliers in the early stages of packaging R&D.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Insights on the transition from conventional flexible packaging to mono structures for a circular economy
Insights on the transition from conventional flexible packaging to mono structures for a circular economy.
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Sustainable Packaging Summit: Permanent materials
In this session, we’ll hear from FEVE and Metal Packaging Europe on the sustainability perspectives and roadmaps of glass and metal packaging, respectively - and then the two associations will join in dialogue on the joint outlook for permanent packaging materials in the face of rising demand for sustainability.
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TIPA and ATI present ‘first-of-its-kind’ fully compostable coffee capsule lid
TIPA and ATI have unveiled a ‘first-of-its-kind’ fully compostable lid for coffee capsules, set to align with upcoming compostability legislation and improve barrier protection, sealing properties, protection against material migration, and more.