All Sustainability articles – Page 261
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ArticleA game-changing discovery to combat PET waste?
Scientists have engineered an enzyme which can digest plastics, providing a potential solution to one of the world’s biggest environmental problems, the University of Portsmouth reports.
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A Holistic View of the Role of Flexible Packaging in a Sustainable World
The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) has announced that it has published a new report on sustainable packaging, A Holistic View of the Role of Flexible Packaging in a Sustainable World.
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ArticleEU Glass Packaging Closed Loop Recycling Steady at 74%
Latest industry data on glass recycling show that the average glass recycling rate in the EU28 is steady at 74%.
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Following the Political and Media Attention on Plastics; is the Plastics Industry Response the Right One?
Plastics recycling charity and member-based organisation, RECOUP, will be challenging the delegates at their Plastics Recycling Conference on 27th September 2018
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ArticleAlufoil Trophy 2018 Winners Announced
This year’s winning entries display excellence in aluminium foil across a wide range of applications including pharmaceutical, food and snack packaging and one which literally does make it much easier to shine LED lighting.
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German Plastic Packaging Industry Expects a Strong Second Quarter in 2018
German plastics packaging producers continue to expect very good business in the second quarter of 2018, and recycling grows in importance.
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ArticleRAP Reduces Plastics by 85% with Newly Developed Modified Atmosphere Carton Food Tray
RAP, a manufacturer of food-to-go packaging, has developed the world’s first Modified Atmosphere (MA) RapTray which offers an alternative to full plastic trays and reduces plastic use by 85%.
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ArticleNestlé Aims at 100% Recyclable or Reusable Packaging by 2025
Nestlé has announced its ambition to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or re-usable by 2025.
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ArticleEcolean Presents a Lighter Life
Ecolean talks to Elisabeth Skoda about their innovations on show at Anuga FoodTec - two new high capacity filling machines with the same footprint, a range of chilled and ambient packs and a whole new take on sustainability.
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ArticleFrom PET Bottles Straight to Packaging: Amut and Erema Hold Open House
AMUT and EREMA invite guests to experience the closed material loop of PET first-hand from 28 to 31 May 2018.
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ArticleAnalysing Innovation
Ahead of DowDuPont's 30th Awards for Packaging Innovation chair of the judging panel David Luttenberger, global packaging director at Mintel, shares his perspectives on the competition and packaging innovation itself with fellow jury member Tim Sykes
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BioLogiQ Launches Three New BioPolymers That Enhance Packaging
BioLogiQ, Inc., a bioplastic resin manufacturing company specializing in environmentally friendly plastic products made from renewable resources, has announced that it is launching three new grades of its plant-based plastic, NuPlastiQ® BioPolymers.
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ArticleTetra Recart discusses e-grocery and sustainability
Anders Lindgren of Tetra Recart talks to Tim Sykes at Anuga FoodTec about the growing role of e-grocery and how modern carton solutions provide a resource efficient, renewable packaging alternative tailor-suited for this market.
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ArticleThe case for industrial packaging sustainability
Within the packaging industry, sustainability is often focused on the “consumer” side, a market that is set to grow year on year by 3.5% reaching a total value of $997 billion by 2020.
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Specialized Formulation by Uflex Renders Barrier Packaging for Edible Oil Reprocessable
Uflex Limited has developed a customised formulation that renders barrier packaging for edible-oil re-processable.
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ArticleUPM Raflatac Announces Clear-on-clear and Solid White Label Materials
UPM Raflatac has further expanded its PP Lite range of labeling solutions for the European market with the introduction of two new products, clear-on-clear PP FTC Lite and PP Solid White FTC Lite.
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ArticleAxion: a ‘Taxing’ Question for Single-use Plastics Recycling
The controversial proposed tax on single-use plastic packaging has raised questions over how to best recover and recycle this material. Taxes or deposit return schemes – how can we use economics to incentivise more recycling?
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ArticleApeal highlights role of steel packaging in the circular economy
Today, in any of the top five steel recycling countries in Europe, over nine out of 10 items of steel packaging put on the market will be effectively recycled and made available for the manufacture of new steel products.
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ArticleInnovative Thermoforming Tooling System for Floating Polypropylene K-cups
In close co-operation with its parent company Kiefel, Bosch Sprang has developed a new patent pending thermoforming tooling system for the production of polypropylene coffee cups.
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ArticlePaper-based Packaging Solution with Integrated Sealing Functionality
In 2016, Sappi was the first manufacturer to launch an innovative packaging paper with integrated sealing functionality, and it has gradually been developed further.