All Collaboration articles – Page 21
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ArticleMondi sets sights on corrugated board over expanded polystyrene for white goods packaging
Mondi is working with its partners to phase out expanded polystyrene in white goods packaging and implement its corrugated Snug&Strong solution – an alternative expected to enhance recyclability and meet legislative requirements while lowering damage and return costs.
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ArticleAlbert Heijn adopts Avantium PEF for own-brand juice bottles
Avantium is supplying its plant-based PEF material to Refresco for use in Albert Heijn’s fruit juice bottles, with the retailer claiming to be the first supermarket chain in the world to adopt the material for own-brand products.
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ArticleLevi’s and Avery Dennison’s NFC patch unlocks exclusive experience for football supporters
Avery Dennison has partnered with Levi Strauss & Co to produce an NFC-chip-enabled patch that unlocks a premium experience for San Francisco 49ers season ticket holders at the tap of a smartphone.
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ArticleUnilever, PepsiCo, and more shape Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s call for scaled-up ‘reuse revolution’
Danone, Nestlé, PepsiCo, The Coca-Cola Company, and Unilever have contributed to a new Ellen MacArthur Foundation study suggesting that, if scaled up effectively, returnable packaging can be as economically attractive as single-use alternatives.
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ArticleRecycleye, Valorplast, and TotalEnergies use AI and computer vision to sort food-grade PP during mechanical recycling
Project OMNI – a research project directed by Recycleye, Valorplast, and TotalEnergies that utilizes AI and machine learning to identify and separate food-grade polypropylene from household post-consumer waste – has led to ‘ground-breaking results’, the companies report.
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ArticleDRS should stay mandatory in PPWR plenary vote, says joint letter
Natural Mineral Waters Europe, Minderoo Foundation, Reloop, UNESDA Soft Drinks Europe, and Zero Waste Europe have signed a joint letter warning that ambition surrounding the collection and recycling of beverage packaging could decline if the European Parliament adopts amendments overturning compulsory deposit refund systems in the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation.
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ArticleNestlé investment opens new recycling plant for flexible plastic packaging
Nestlé has invested £7 million into the opening of Impact Recycling’s new recycling plant, which is set to convert hard-to-recycle flexible plastics into pellets to produce new flexible packaging.
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ArticleNeste and Mitsui Chemicals receive Japanese Eco mark for bio-based seaweed snack packaging
Neste, Mitsui Chemicals, and its subsidiary Prime Polymer are packaging dried seaweed slices with bio-based raw materials for the Japanese Consumers Co-operative Union brand CO-OP.
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ArticleNew study urges implementation of reuse systems for Indian street vendors at INC-3
A new study by Zero Waste Europe, Searious Business, and National Hawker Federation suggests that transitioning around 80,000 street vendors in Kolkata, India into reusable systems would bring social and economic benefits and cut down on plastic waste by over 86% – a reduction that would not be limited to single-use plastics.
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Article2M Group partnership a ‘significant milestone’ in scale-up of Xampla’s natural packaging material
Xampla has announced a partnership with 2M Group of Companies to scale up the production and distribution of its “fully biodegradable” plant-based materials.
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ArticleComplementary reuse and recycling and prevention from exceeding EU reuse targets prioritized in joint letter
As a plenary vote on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation approaches, UNESDA has joined a range of European organizations in signing a letter calling for the complementarity of reusable and single-use recyclable packaging, alongside the prevention of exceeding the European Commission’s reuse targets.
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Article3,162 companies share plastics data via CDP’s environmental disclosure platform
As negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty continue this week, over 3,000 companies – including Unilever, Johnson & Johnson, and Sumitomo Chemical – have disclosed information regarding their production, use, and disposal of plastics via environmental disclosure platform CDP, while 48 financial institutions have signed an open letter calling for corporate disclosure to become mandatory.
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ArticlePaptic material applied to Dorsal pillows in phase-out of fossil-based plastics
Dorsal has transitioned into recyclable, wood fibre-based Paptic material for its pillow packaging in a strategic move away from fossil-based plastics and towards more ‘responsible’ material usage.
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ArticleIndustry players and NGOs rally behind methodology to measure plastic footprints
As INC-3 approaches, the Plastic Footprint Network, a coalition of global corporations and NGOs, has unveiled a unified methodology to measure plastic footprints and push back against plastic pollution worldwide.
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ArticleHushållsost cheese wrapped in mono-PP by Mondi and Skånemejerier
Mondi and Skånemejerier have repackaged ICA’s Hushållsost cheese in a mono-PP base web and lidding film, which has been designed for recycling and aims to close the material loop without compromising on food quality.
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ArticlePilot project recycles Berry film leftovers from Haver & Boecker machinery
Berry Global and Haver & Boecker are collecting and recycling Berry’s NorDiVent film bags in a closed-loop system hoped to cut down on waste and encourage the reuse of valuable resources.
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ArticleGreiner Packaging uses rPET from yellow bag in tray-to-tray recycling for bottle display
Greiner Packaging is implementing post-consumer rPET from the yellow bag into trays to transport and display beverage bottles, with Rauch Fruchtsäfte set to adopt trays containing 70% post-consumer recyclate.
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ArticleNew coalition uplifts natural polymers to substitute plastics in lead-up to INC-3
Xampla, Notpla, Loliware, Traceless, MarinaTex, Zerocircle, and PlantSea have formed the Natural Polymers Group and are encouraging policymakers at INC-3 to recognize natural polymer materials as valuable assets in combating plastic pollution.
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ArticleRefillable air up bottles now contain 50% molecularly recycled content from Eastman
A new line of reusable bottles made from Eastman Tritan Renew – constituting 50% ISCC-certified recycled content sourced from a molecular recycling technology – has been launched by air up.
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ArticleBorealis anticipates expanded mechanically recycled plastic compounding capacity in closed Rialti acquisition
Borealis has successfully closed a deal to acquire recycled polypropylene compound producer Rialti in a move set to boost its portfolio of PP compounds based on mechanical recyclates by 50,000 tons annually.