All Sustainability articles – Page 193
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PodcastSustainability perspectives: Domo Film Solutions
Domo Film Solutions’ innovation and sustainability director Jani Vourenpää outlines the company’s sustainability roadmap and explains the benefits of Nyleen™, a low carbon and water footprint nylon film.
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ArticleVideo: Sustainable Packaging Summit 2019 - part 3
In the third of five films from the Sustainable Packaging Summit 2019, Chris Daly discusses PepsiCo's challenges around integrating its packaging into a circular economy and its multi-faceted strategy to realise it
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ArticleFull PE stand-up pouches made with recycled and virgin performance PE polymers
Stand-up pouches (SUPs) can now be made using recycled material from full polyethylene (PE) laminated SUPs and virgin performance PE polymers.
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ArticleSABIC unveils new TRUCIRCLE™ range of circular polymer solutions at K 2019
SABIC is launching its range of circular solutions to help manufacturers address one the planet’s most urgent sustainability challenges – the reduction of mixed plastic waste.
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ArticleBorealis and Borouge offer monomaterials solutions for packaging
Borealis and Borouge have developed a series of new, monomaterial pouch solutions based on polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP).
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PodcastPodcast: Sustainability perspectives
The Packaging Europe team gains insights from a glass, paper and plastics perspective from Sustainability Awards gold sponsors O-I (01:08), Amcor (10:58), Koehler Paper Group (16:00), Trinseo (27:10), Domo Film Solutions (39:54) and SP Group (46:16).
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ArticleNovamont and Saes Group launch new compostable solutions with gas barrier properties
Novamont and Saes Group have joined forces to develop solutions to meet the growing demand for materials with lower environmental impact and high functional performance.
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ArticleGabriel-Chemie shares digitalisation and sustainability expertise
The Gabriel-Chemie Group will once again be present at K2019 in Hall 5, Booth B40, sharing a new booth design as well as numerous new, innovative solutions and product demonstrations. The main topics up are digitalisation and sustainabilty.
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ArticleMaking the case for plastics packaging
It has been a challenging period for the plastics packaging industry with difficult market conditions and the ongoing 'war on plastics' having an effect.
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ArticleVideo interview: Sustainable cardboard food packaging
At Fachpack, Van Genechten's European sales director Maik Haunhorst talks to Packaging Europe about the company's solutions that can help reduce the use of plastics in food packaging.
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ArticleUNITED CAPS and LyondellBasell unveil tethered closures at K 2019
UNITED CAPS and LyondellBasell have announced that they are displaying the results of an extensive collaborative effort to respond to EU Directive 2019/904 on single-use plastics
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ArticleHenkel presents adhesives and coatings enabling improved packaging recycling
The adhesives used in packages typically only make up no more than five percent of the total weight – yet, their properties can actually make the difference when it comes to the overall recyclability of the material.
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ArticleVideo: "Addressing sustainability challenges together"
Avery Dennison's Jan 't Hart shares sustainability perspectives and underlines the importance of cooperation across the supply chain to solve the pressing issues of today.
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ArticleKHS presents "first recyclable juice bottle" made of 100% recyclate rPET
There is an increasing demand from consumers and the beverage industry alike for packaging which saves on resources.
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ArticlePlastics – the insider perspective
At the start of K 2019, Packaging Europe asks some major players in the plastics packaging industry a few pertinent questions about the big issues the industry faces today and finds out about their sustainability drive and innovations.
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ArticleCreating transparency for global plastic flows
Plastics are described as an important resource that must be recycled and not end up as environmental litter. In order to manage and optimise the flows of material specifically for this purpose, the volumes of material flow need to be known.
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ArticleOn Second Thoughts... Practical recyclability is the only version of recyclability
In this column, Tom Szaky looks below the surface of recyclability claims and highlights the gap between technical recyclability and practical recyclability.
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ArticleShowcasing the "Zero Waste Cup" at K 2019
Visitors to K 2019 this year will be able to sample a free coffee, and reusable / recyclable Zero Waste Cup at the Borealis stand A43, hall 6.
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ArticleLow carbon footprint of PLA confirmed by peer reviewed Life Cycle Assessment
Total Corbion PLA's peer reviewed Life Cycle Impact Assessment of PLA (Poly Lactic Acid) produced from Sugarcane in Thailand has been published in the "Journal of Polymers and the Environment" and confirms PLA's low carbon footprint.
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Video: "Paper where possible, plastic when useful"
With so many variables and complexities, how do you identify the most sustainable packaging solution? Graeme Smith discusses Mondi's customer-centric approach.