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ArticlePlastics For Change among winners of the Global Maker Challenge
Plastics For Change, which developed the world's first fairtrade verified recycled plastic supply chain, has been announced as the winner of the Climate Change category of the Global Maker Challenge by the Mohammed bin Rashid Initiative for Global Pr
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ArticleFinalist interviews: Safe Load Testing Technologies' 'Boomerang' Horizontal Stability Tester
In the next of our interviews with the Sustainability Awards 2020 finalists, we talk with Safe Load Testing Technologies, whose Boomerang Horizontal Stability Tester is a patented solution for packaging optimization and CO2 reduction.
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ArticleTalking sustainability with Tetra Pak
We speak with Alex Henriksen, managing director of Tetra Pak North Europe, to understand one of the industry's leading company's perspectives on sustainability.
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ArticleAptar reveals next-generation ROCKET sport cap
Aptar Food + Beverage, a global manufacturer of dispensing solutions, has announced ROCKET, its next-generation sport cap.
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ArticleNew reusable cup scheme announced by McDonald’s and Loop
McDonald's has announced a global partnership with TerraCycle's circular packaging service, Loop, to test a new reusable cup model for hot beverages.
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ArticleReifenhäuser on its innovative new R-Cycle project
We recently caught up with Dr. Benedikt Brenken of Reifenhäuser to talk about the R-Cycle Initiative - a collaborative project that seeks to simplify and improve plastics recycling processes.
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ArticleWebinar: Multi-layer flexible packaging
How to combine performance, food safety and sustainability?
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ArticleCollaboration between DS Smith and Laithwaite’s Wine results in closed-loop recycling system
DS Smith has teamed up with the UK’s largest online wine merchant, Laithwaite’s Wine, to create a closed-loop recycling system across the two companies’ supply chains.
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ArticleFinalist interviews: A reusable packaging system from MIWA
In this edition of our interviews with the Sustainability Awards 2020 finalists, we talk with reuse specialists MIWA.
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ArticleClosing the loop – the future of packaging?
Wouter Van Tol, DS Smith's recently-announced head of government, community affairs and sustainability, explains why now is the perfect time for the industry to adopt closed-loop models.
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ArticleSiegwerk’s proprietary deinking and delamination primer technology helps to yield clean recyclates
In this Innovation Spotlight, Siegwerk explains to us why its technology is a key lever to integrate plastic packaging materials further towards a circular economy.
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ArticleTesco introduces recycled food-grade soft plastic packaging made from materials returned by customers
This week, Tesco is introducing new plastic packaging made by a pioneering process of recycling soft, flexible plastic packaging.
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ArticleHolyGrail 2.0: ground-breaking recycling project enters its next stage with cross-industry backing
Over 85 companies and organisations from the complete packaging value chain have joined forces with the goal to assess whether a pioneering digital technology can enable better sorting and higher-quality recycling rates for packaging in the EU.
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ArticleBudweiser Budvar adopts TopClip cardboard multipack topper
Budweiser Budvar UK is trialing Smurfit Kappa's TopClip, a cardboard beer can packaging solution, as the Czech beer brand works to reduce plastic waste.
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ArticleClose the Glass Loop – An inside look
How will Close the Glass Loop, the new pan-European action platform, achieve its aim of increasing European glass recycling rates to 90%, and why is this so important now?
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ArticleGreiner Packaging reports test success with yogurt cups made from 100% recycled PS
Greiner Packaging's K3® yogurt cup is made from a cardboard-plastic combination that can be printed on. This particular cup is now the focus of a project carried out by Greiner Packaging in Switzerland to highlight the recyclability of polystyrene.
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ArticleCoca-Cola transitions to 100% rPET bottles in the Netherlands and Norway
Coca-Cola has taken another step on its journey to eliminating new virgin oil-based plastic by announcing that its brands in the Netherlands and Norway will transition to plastic bottles made from 100% recycled PET (rPET).
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ArticleCircularise raises €1.5 million to trace plastic supply chains
Circularise, a blockchain solution for tracing materials and sharing data, has raised €1.5 million from the EU Commission’s H2020’s SME Instrument Phase 2, to fuel the continued growth of the collaborative project for circularity in plastics.
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ArticleNestlé reveals recyclable paper wrappers for Maggi bouillon cubes
Maggi has broken new ground by becoming the first major brand to use recyclable paper packaging to wrap individual bouillon cubes for its organic range in France.
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ArticlePujolasos launches wooden cap with recyclable plastic inner
With the aim of meeting demand from the perfumery and cosmetics industries for more environmentally friendly caps, Pujolasos has designed a glue-free wood cap with a disposable plastic inner that can be recycled post-use.