All Sustainability articles – Page 233
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ArticleBeyond Prototypes: 3D Printing
3D printing has been a buzzword for many years, with exciting developments cropping up in many sectors, including medicine, where the first 3D printed heart recently made headlines, construction and automotive.
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ArticleFocus on convenience and sustainability
The Alufoil Trophy 2019, once again attracted a strong field of entries. In total nine awards were made across the five categories, including a discretionary award for overall excellence for one outstanding product.
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Breakthrough on black plastics could help cut landfill waste
A Welsh plastic colourant firm has developed technology which could save thousands of tonnes of waste from being sent to landfill.
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ArticleAvery Dennison Cleanflake™ Portfolio Wins Finat Recycling & Sustainability Award 2019
An innovation from Avery Dennison that enables closed-loop PET recycling has won this year’s FINAT Recycling and Sustainability award.
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ArticleLuxus Gains Eucertplast Accreditation for Good Practice
Technical knowledge based plastics compounder and recycler Luxus has received accreditation from EuCertPlast www.eucertplast.eu, the European wide scheme that provides a common standard for post-consumer plastics recycling.
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ArticleStriking a Balance Between Recyclability, Lightweighting, Food Safety and Shelf Life
The fourth edition of MeetingPack in Valencia, organised by AIMPLAS and AINIA, was a meeting point for more than 350 professionals of the food barrier packaging industry.
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ArticleREWE Group introduces new paper-based food trays
REWE Group, one of the biggest retailers in Austria, is packing its premium cheese products from its organic brand Ja! Natürlich with a new patented solution from Mondi. The Austrian retail stores BILLA, MERKUR, ADEG and Sutterlüty are offering the
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Boston USA 10-11 July 2019 'place2be for the sustained future of packaging'
One City, two interrelated unique packaging events on two consecutive days (Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 July 2019): Boston MA USA is the place to go for all who care about the sustained future of packaging worldwide.
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ArticleFlexible Packaging from Post-consumer Recycled Plastic
Mondi Group led Project Proof, a Pioneer Project facilitated by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF).
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ArticleRigid plastics - an overview
What began as a legitimate concern about the amount of plastic we use (and throw away) has quickly evolved into what some would call a ‘knee-jerk’ reaction.
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ArticleSmurfit Kappa Launches New Olive Oil Packaging
Smurfit Kappa has recently launched a new stand-up Pouch for olive oil. Part of its Pouch-Up® portfolio, the new pouch is available as a 1.5L unit, and weighs 17 times less than its glass counterpart.
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ArticleDevelopment of an International Tool for the Circular Design of Packaging
From a request of WPO Vice President Sustainability, Antro Säilä, Ernst Krottendorfer, Managing Director of Packforce, WPO member in Austria, prepared the Circular Packaging Design Guideline.
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ArticleSustainable Design Series 1 - Sculpted By The Sun
Global creative agency Anthem Worldwide’s Benelux team are passionate about the role of design in creating more sustainable packaging solutions.
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ArticleAmcor Evolves High-Barrier Packaging with New Recyclable Material
There is an urgent need to address packaging waste, a challenge that is widely acknowledged. The challenge has been finding solutions. A new material now makes recycling an option for previously hard-to-recycle high-barrier packaging
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ArticleSidel: Creating Value from Plastic Waste
As a leader in solutions for PET packaging, among others, Sidel is well placed to give us a picture of how the industry is tackling the complex and often divisive sustainability issues the plastics industry is faced with.
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ArticleBelow the Surface
A strong magnifying lens has been focused on the sustainability of materials, plastics generally being placed at the epicentre of debate and blame. But what about aluminium?
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AVERY DENNISON’S RECYCLED POLYETHYLENE (rPE) FACESTOCK OFFERS INDUSTRY FIRST
The labelling industry’s first-ever facestock made from recycled polyethylene (rPE) has been introduced by Avery Dennison.
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Article“Small steps can make a huge collective impact”
Libby White talks to Susie Ma, founder of Tropic Skincare, a beauty brand which has recently launched its products with a fresh approach in refillable packaging.
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ArticlePioneering sorting technology: HolyGrail project moves towards a circular economy
The pioneering project HolyGrail, led by Procter & Gamble and facilitated by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, officially closed on May 23rd.
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ArticleDow and Menshen reverse tradition for spouted pouches
Dow and Menshen, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of caps, closures and single-serve capsules, announce the new transformative Reverse Spout Sealing Technology that enables the production of spouted pouches made of mono-material films.