New Golden Design Rules from the Consumer Goods Forum Driving Action Towards a Circular Economy for Plastic Packaging. In collaboration with the Consumer Goods Forum , a cross-value chain group of major brand owners, recyclers and plastics associations are working on a set of ‘golden rules’...
Sustainable Food Packaging that Keeps Harmful Microbes at Bay . A team of scientists from NTU Singapore and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, US, has developed a ‘smart’ food packaging material that is biodegradable, sustainable and kills microbes that are harmful to humans. It could...
INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe and Plastic Energy have entered into a collaboration to conduct a trial that will involve converting ‘hard to recycle plastic material’ into plastic that can be used for food packaging and other applications. The trial is slated to commence in the first...
Walls Made from Recycled Beverage Cartons. SIG and Tetra Pak will build a recycling facility in New South Wales where used beverage cartons and papercups will be turned into high quality building material The SIG-funded project to recycle used beverage cartons has received a A$1.74 million...
With COP26 approaching and environmental targets becoming more pressing, a Westminster Forum event discussed some of the policies being proposed to deal with the UK’s plastic waste. Read more here . #Plastics #WasteManagement #Packaging #Recycling
The British Plastics Federation (BPF) has published a comprehensive new document, Plastics Explained: Exploring the Key Topics, which examines why plastic needs to be thought of more like a valuable resource and how it has a vital role to play as society works towards lowering carbon...
UK Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge. The smart sustainable plastic packaging (SSPP) challenge will establish the UK as a leader in smart sustainable packaging and support a reduction in waste entering the environment. In total it will fund up to £60 million to support...
Study Finds Packaging ‘Less Recyclable’ in UK. A study carried out by consumer research company Which? has found that 32% of brand packaging in the UK is not “easily recyclable in practice”. The study called ‘The Consumer Lens on Packaging 2021’ was commissioned by Consumers International, the...
This innovation does sound promising - A biotransformation technology that makes a polyethylene film biodegrade within a year also renders the material recyclable, claim scientists at Polymateria, a start-up based at Imperial College London, UK. https://www.iom3.org/resource/twinning-with-a...
As we settle into 2021, we take a glance at how some of the leading players in materials science are continuing to address the need to improve the recyclability and functionality of packaging polymers. These are some insights provided by i ndustry experts from Covestro, Dow and Imerys. https:...