All Collaboration articles – Page 35
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ArticleTotalEnergies and Ecolab partner to launch heavy use packaging incorporating post-consumer recycled plastic
TotalEnergies and Ecolab have partnered to launch plastic packaging incorporating recycled material for heavy-use purposes.
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ArticleSiegwerk and partners report successful deinking of plastic packaging for recycling extrusion
A partnership between Siegwerk, German startup Wildplastic, and the Hamburg University of Technology has announced its successful trial to deink plastic packaging waste before it enters the recycling extrusion process.
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ArticleTetra Pak and MAX IV aspire for recyclable and efficient fibre-based food packaging in collaborative research
Tetra Pak is working with MAX IV in a research project aiming to advance fibre-based food contact packaging in pursuit of a recyclable, high-barrier ‘package of the future’.
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ArticleNew European reusable packaging alliance announced
A group of leading companies from the reusable packaging value chain has launched the New European Reusable Alliance (New ERA), a coalition that aims to promote reuse as an alternative to linear models.
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ArticleCoca-Cola Europacific Partners invests in university research groups aiming to convert captured emissions into packaging materials
CCEP Ventures – the innovation investment arm of Coca-Cola Europacific Partners – has partnered with research groups at Universitat Rovira i Virgili and the University of Twente to fund their research into the use of carbon capture technology to convert captured emissions into packaging materials and more.
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ArticleRecycleye’s automated waste picking technology secures $17 million in Series A funding from DCVC
Recycleye has announced an additional $17 million in Series A funding from DCVC to enhance its AI-driven waste-picking robotics solution.
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ArticleAmcor invests $250,000 into circolution’s ‘packaging as a service’ solution
Amcor is set to invest $250,000 into circolution, a smart reusable food packaging start-up and the third winner of Amcor’s Lift-Off initiative, in a further push to implement more sustainable packaging solutions.
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ArticleWhat will the future of deposit return schemes look like?
In order to make deposit return systems a success, understanding consumer behaviour is crucial. An innovative pilot scheme is currently underway in Serbia, which is using smart technology to gather data on how consumers interact with DRS in a bid to make its use more widespread.
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ArticleALPLA and joint venture partners open PET recycling plant in Romania
In a joint venture with Ecohelp and United Polymer Trading, the ALPLA Group has opened its first PET recycling plant in Romania, which now claims to produce around 18,000 tonnes of recycled material from household waste every year and supply food-grade rPET for the southeast European market.
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ArticleMespack and Hoffer launch spout and cap closure made of monolayer material, utilising ‘20% less’ plastic
Mespack and Hoffer Plastics have announced the market launch of the P-15 spout and cap for stand-up pouches – now designed to be compatible with both monolayer materials and Mespack’s horizontal form-fill-seal machines.
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ArticleIntraplás set to commercialise TotalEnergies’ bio-based polymer through food packaging
Intraplás has revealed that it will bring TotalEnergies’ bio-based RE:newable polymer to the packaging market via food-contact drop-in packaging solutions in a move hoped to reduce customers’ carbon footprint.
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ArticleJames Cropper wraps Maison Perrier-Jouët wine in gift wrap made from vine shoots and paper pulp
Maison Perrier-Jouët has partnered with Colourform by James Cropper to produce a luxury gift wrap made of paper pulp and vine shoots with the intention of bringing sustainability to the luxury market.
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ArticleContinental announces switch to STI Group’s recycled corrugated board in bike tyre packaging
STI Group’s recycled corrugated board is set to replace the previous plastic packaging in a new box for Continental’s high-tech mountain bike tyres, with the company striving to close the loop on its packaging solutions.
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ArticleDow to produce bio-based plastics for LVMH Beauty packaging
Dow is working alongside LVMH Beauty to implement plastics made from recycled and bio-based feedstocks into several of the latter’s perfume and cosmetic product packs.
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ArticleTesco includes recycled plastic in fresh fish packaging
Tesco is partnering with Keep Sea Blue to incorporate recycled plastics into its fresh fish packaging, with the goal of keeping 500 tonnes of discarded plastic out of the ocean.
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ArticleIs simplifying sorting the key to creating a circular economy for plastics?
In order for plastic packaging to become truly circular, it’s crucial that the sorting of post-consumer packaging is as efficient and consistent as possible. How can the industry make this happen? Professor Edward Kosior, CEO and co-founder at Nextek and NEXTLOOPP, tells us more.
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ArticleNoel Alimentaria to package sliced meat and plant-based food in Mondi’s paper-based trays
Mondi is working alongside Noel Alimentaria to repackage its sliced meat and plant-based food products in a recyclable, paper-based tray and reduce the company’s plastic consumption.
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ArticlePureCycle Technologies to open its first European PP recycling facility in Belgium
PureCycle Technologies, Inc. has announced its intent to build its first European polypropylene recycling facility at the Port of Antwerp-Bruges’ NextGen District facility in Belgium with an expected annual capacity of 59,000 metric tons.
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ArticleSustainaPac and PulPac endeavour to bring Dry Molded Fiber food service packaging to North America
SustainaPac LLC has joined PulPac’s licensee network and now hopes to utilise the latter’s Dry Molded Fiber technology and produce single-use food service packaging products for the North American quick service restaurant market.
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ArticleNGOs unite to create knowledge exchange network and pursue eradication of plastic pollution
The World Economic Forum’s Global Plastic Action Partnership (GPAP), the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Plastics Initiative and WRAP have announced a collaboration set to share knowledge between their global initiatives and encourage global progress in combating plastic pollution.