All Sustainability articles – Page 257
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ArticleThe ovenable packaging market is heating up
Elisabeth Skoda explores recent innovations in the area of ovenable and microwavable packaging, speaking with Toby Cottam and Simon Balderson, managing directors respectively of Terinex and Sirane.
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Avantium starts construction of bio-MEG demonstration plant in the Netherlands
Avantium N.V., a leading technology development company and forerunner in renewable chemistry, has started construction of a new demonstration plant that will help advance the production of bio-based mono-ethylene glycol
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Article‘Packaging design is cultural anthropology’
Professor Marianne Klimchuk of New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) has made a career out of thinking deeply about the dialogue between packaging and society – and passing it on to the next generation of designers.
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ArticleSteel Packaging Recycling in Europe Reaches 79.5%
People in the UK and across Europe are recycling more steel packaging than ever before, according to APEAL, the Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging.
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ArticleBeyond the Removal of Black Carbon Pigments
Colour Tone, (stand A009), PDM 2018, 19th-20th June 2018, is urging producers and retailers to look beyond the removal of carbon black pigments if they are to help optimise the detection and sorting of non-clear plastics packaging for recycling.
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ArticleUPM Raflatac's Smart Label Solution Makes Recycling Smarter
UPM Raflatac combines digitalization with circular economy. By adding RafMore smart label solution to its RafCycle® recycling process, UPM Raflatac is able to optimize the waste collection process from its customers.
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FEFCO on Corrugated: "the perfect circular solution for a sustainable economy"
FEFCO, the association representing the European corrugated board industry, makes the sustainability argument for paper-based packaging.
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IKEA to Remove All Single-Use Plastic Products by 2020
IKEA joins the ranks of retailers eschewing single use plastics and makes a global commitment to remove all single use plastic products in the range as well as from customer and co-worker restaurants by 2020.
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ArticleDS Smith Launches Solution to Reduce E-commerce Packaging Size
DS Smith has announced a solution set to be the first ever 3D-adaptable packaging, minimising size and cut associated costs by up to 60 per cent.
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ArticleWorking toward packaging that doesn't cost the earth
In the first of a series of interviews with the sponsors of the Sustainability Awards 2018, Georg Müller-Hof, VP marketing, introduces Avery Dennison’s sustainability vision to Packaging Europe.
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Ettlinger’s ECO melt filters make fines almost one hundred percent recyclable
By incorporating Ettlinger’s ECO high performance melt filters into the extrusion process, these substances can be continuously and almost completely removed from the melt
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ArticleNew plastics recycling partnership gives major potential for plastics
Funding of over £3m has been announced today for four projects comprising a ground-breaking new plastics recycling partnership, Project Beacon, which has the potential to recycle all plastics in Scotland and beyond
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ArticleBanning individual plastic products is ineffective
ALPLA, the Austrian packaging solutions specialist, condemns planned EU regulations on single use plastics, arguing that banning individual products threatens the European Circular Economy Action Plan in its entirety.
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ArticleAPI offers sustainable option with film-free laminate for paperboard packaging
API is witnessing an uptake in demand for its innovative Transmet™ solution as brands look to reduce the environmental impact of their packaging.
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ArticleQuorn™ eliminates black plastic trays
Meat-substitute brand takes first steps to remove black plastic from packaging, eliminating 297 tonnes of non-recyclable plastic from its supply chain. Head of packaging development Ester Takacs talks to Packaging Europe.
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ArticleSustainability‘s Race to the Top
Our panel of wonderful judges will spend the summer analysing and grading the 108 entries to this year’s Sustainability Awards. Here some of the judges share their perspectives on the initiative and on sustainability in general.
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ArticlePlastic Free Coffee Cups with Kotkamills ISLA® Duo
ISLA® Duo cupstock does not contain any plastics or waxes that are harmful for the environment or health. Easy recycling makes ISLA® Duo cups an integral part of the circular economy and makes sure that the valuable wood fibre can be reused.
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ArticlePackaging Connections 01/06/2018
Highlights this week focus on high speed print personalisation as well as changeovers, and on new supermarket with no single-use packaging.
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ArticleHuhtamaki Trials New Fiber Based Ready Meal Pack
A trial version of a renewable fiber based ready meal packaging will be tested with consumers in the UK starting end May. Huhtamaki is part of a three-party consortium developing an alternative to existing plastic ready meal trays.
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WPO Releases a Position Paper about Packaging in the Circular Economy
Under the coordination of its Sustainability Committee, WPO (World Packaging Organisation) is releasing a Position Paper about Packaging in Circular Economy.