All Ellen MacArthur Foundation articles – Page 3
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ArticleCo-op Partners with Novamont to Replace Plastic Carrier Bags with Compostable Alternatives
The Co-op and Novamont have announced a collaboration aimed at supplying the British retailer with a new kind of compostable carrier bag, as an alternative to traditional non-biodegradable and non-compostable plastic bag.
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ArticleSorting the Plastic Recycling Problem
The number of polymers in packaging means raising recycling rates in a single collection stream demands better identification / sorting of plastics. Increasing interest and investment focuses on two technologies: UV tracers and digital watermarking
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ArticleJindal Introduces BICOR™ ULTRASEAL OPP Film Technology
Jindal Films is demonstrating a breakthrough OPP film technology, ULTRASEAL, this week at FachPack. Its unique heat seal performance capabilities are designed to replace blown PE or cast PP films used in flexible packaging laminates
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ArticleRecyclability Revolution in High-Barrier Films
Exclusive! Amcor sets out to transform the circular capability of flexible packaging with the launch of a new polyolefin barrier film – a platform technology for packaging a huge variety of products.
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ArticleThe Business Case for Green Packaging: 6 points on sustainability, the circular economy & plastic waste
Ahead of FachPack one of Germany's leading packaging voices, Dr Thomas Reiner (chair of the dvi, CEO of Berndt+ Partner and 2018 Sustainability Awards judge), speaks to Elisabeth Skoda about the environmental challenges facing the industry
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ArticleNew Developments in Sustainable Flexible Packaging
Innovation is an activity that drives sustainability – and sustainability provides a set of goals guiding innovation, according to Mondi, who discuss the task of building a sustainable flexibles portfolio
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ArticleRecycling 2.0
In the second of our series of interviews with sponsors of the Sustainability Awards 2018, Günter Stephan, head of circular economy at Borealis, shares with Tim Sykes his vision for helping realise circularity in plastics.
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Greiner Packaging Makes Sustainability Commitment by Joining UK Plastics Pact
The objective of the UK Plastics Pact, which was presented on Thursday in London, is to keep plastic away from nature, and to keep it in the economy as long as possible.
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ArticleUK Business Pact to Tackle Plastic Pollution
42 businesses, including major food, drink and non-food brands, manufacturers and retailers right through to plastic reprocessors and packaging suppliers, sign up to a world-first pact.
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ArticlePackaging Matters: Consumer Expectations Drive Global Trends
Steven Cox, Creative Services Director at Daymon, talks to Packaging Europe about how brands can use packaging to boost their sales and their image. A customer walks down the aisle. Something green catches her eye on the third shelf. At that moment,
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ArticleChemical Recycling 101
Breaking apart LEGO bricks, unbaking a cake… The use of metaphors reflects the fact that chemical recycling is a poorly understood concept in the margins of mainstream debate about plastic waste. Three experts spoke to Tim Sykes about its potential.
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ArticleInnovation arises from shared passion for compostable packaging
Bio4pack and TIPA were exactly what organic grains company, De Halm, was looking for. Together, they were able to develop a compostable packaging solution, and a long-term relationship, that has proven to be an overall success.
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ArticlePetcore Europe Conference 2018 "Strategy for PET in the Circular Economy"
Once per year Europe's entire PET value chain meets in Brussels for the annual Petcore Europe Conference. Due to its success in recent editions this year's conference was held for the first time over two days and welcomed more than 200 experts.
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ArticleManifesto: ‘Packaging must lead way to a more integrated approach’
Stuart Lendrum (former head of packaging at Sainsbury's) presents his vision for a packaging industry that needs to show leadership in facing the sustainability challenge
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Amcor is First Global Packaging Company Pledging to Develop all its Packaging to be Recyclable or Reusable by 2025
Amcor has become the first global packaging company pledging to develop all its packaging to be recyclable or reusable by 2025, directly addressing a major environmental issue with capability, scale and reach.
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ArticleA second life for flexible plastic packaging
According to research of the MacArthur Foundation (EMF), merely 14 percent of the plastic packaging used globally makes its way to recycling plants, while 40 percent ends up in landfill and only 1/3 in fragile ecosystems.
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ArticleIs moving to a single polymer the answer?
The M&S Plan A 2025 steps up the retailer's sustainability goals, featuring a One Polymer Road Map & target for 100% of packaging widely recycled. Tim Sykes spoke to Kevin Vyse about the implications & the company's approach to sustainable packaging
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ArticleEurope Needs a Plastics System that Works
The President of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, recently addressed the European Parliament on the EU’s circular economy package.
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ArticleShould Supermarkets Really "Eliminate Plastic Packaging"?
Packaging specialists have distanced themselves from comments from the former head of major UK supermarket chain Asda advocating that retailers move toward total elimination of plastic
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ArticleCOMPLETING THE CIRCLE
On 26th September at the PPMA Show Packaging Europe’s Tim Sykes will be chairing a session with Veolia’s Dr Forbes McDougall on sustainable food and drink packaging and the circular economy. The two caught up for an interview ahead of the show.
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