All Sustainability articles – Page 201
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ArticleUnilever's start-up brand B-Better launches water range in SIG Carton's Combidome bottle
B-Better®, a water start-up brand from Unilever’s Future Platform, is launching a range of water beverages in SIG’s combidome carton bottle, which the company says offers the advantages of an aseptic carton pack and all the benefits of a bottle shape
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ArticleFlexible design for recycling: From theory to practice
At FachPack 2019, ppg > companies will be presenting flexible packaging with a focus on design for recycling, the use of regranulates and renewable resources.
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ArticleTackling the rPET challenge
Coca-Cola European Partners recently announced that the company will be using bottles made from 100% recycled plastic for its Honest, GLACÉAU Smartwater and Chaudfontaine brands.
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ArticleMilliken to focus on enhancing plastics at K 2019
“Waste reduction and the recycling of plastics are necessary megatrends impacting today’s consumer products sector,” notes Herrin Hood, global product line manager of Milliken’s Plastics Additives business.
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ArticleBillerudKorsnäs and The Paper Straw Co to launch "first U-Bend paper straw"
Together with the Paper Straw Co, BillerudKorsnäs has developed what the company describes as the first functional 180° U-Bend straw, made out of paper. The straw is made to be used for individual drink cartons such as juice, milk and water.
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ArticleSurvey finds public support for a ‘national recycling standard’
The results of a major UK-wide survey published today reveals the British public supports packaging that is 100% recyclable and is collected for recycling by councils wherever people live in the UK.
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ArticleCircular economy is hot topic at K 2019
Plastic products have become an integral part of almost every area of life. For good reason. Plastic packaging extends the shelf life of food, plastic parts in cars reduces their weight and CO2 emissions.
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Ioniqa takes first 10 kiloton PET upcycling factory into operation
With the commissioning of the first 10 kiloton plant in the Netherlands Ioniqa honours their promise, made earlier this year, to achieve endless upcycling of PET plastics on an industrial scale.
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Articleetma presents winners of its Tube of the Year 2019 competition
The winners of the Tube of the Year competition, which is held annually by the European Tube Manufacturers Association (etma), were awarded at this year’s World Tube Congress in Hamburg.
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Alliance to End Plastic Waste Welcomes 12 New Companies From Across the Plastics Value Chain
The Alliance to End Plastic Waste (AEPW) today welcomed 12 new companies from across the plastics value chain, including Chinese state-owned Sinopec.
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Plans for commercial scale polystyrene chemical recycling plant in Europe
Styrenics Circular Solutions (SCS) and Agilyx announced today a collaboration between INEOS Styrolution, Trinseo, and Agilyx to advance the first-of-a-kind polystyrene (PS) chemical recycling facility in Europe.
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ArticleAll-in-one service for recyclable packaging
The all-in-one service offered by the Fraunhofer Institute for Process Engineering and Packaging IVV helps companies meet the challenges associated with the use and development of recyclable packaging materials.
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ArticleK 2019 – New products from plastic waste
More and more companies from the plastics industry are working on improving the recyclability of plastics and thus helping to create a circular economy. One way that BASF is contributing is the ChemCycling project.
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ArticleAseptic cartons with ASI-certified aluminium foil
SIG is making aseptic cartons with ASI-certified aluminium foil available to consumers for the first time in partnership with B-Better®, a start-up brand from Unilever’s Future Platform.
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ArticleJokey presents buckets with ocean plastic content
At the presentation of the management guide “eco design of plastic packaging” in Berlin on 12 June, Michael Schmitz, Head of Marketing and Communication, presented the current status of the Jokey Eco Concept.
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Grease resistant wrapping papers receive OK compost certification
Ahlstrom-Munksjö has received the OK compost HOME and OK compost INDUSTRIAL certifications from TÜV® Austria for its entire range of Coralpack™ grease resistant wrapping papers.
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ArticleToppan Develops All-PET Laminate Monomaterial Packaging
Toppan Printing has developed all-PET (polyethylene terephthalate) laminate monomaterial flexible packaging for individual packages.
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Packaging Connections 08/07/2019
Our weekly packaging highlights, featuring a conceptual green design for green fingered applications, an acquisition with big implications for rigid plastics globally, and a German collaboration to explore potential for (edible?) seaweed packaging.
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ArticleMaking the environmental case for clip closure solutions
A study by the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology UMSICHT on calculation of the carbon footprint of various packs for sausages points to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions with clip closure solutions.
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ArticleReifenhäuser Group presents sustainable solutions for plastics production at K 2019
Reduce, reuse, recycle, replace: Reifenhäuser Group will be focusing on these four principles at K 2019 when it presents extrusion technologies which the company says will take plastic as a material into a sustainable future.