Earlier this month, the French Government announced plans to ban fruit and vegetables from being sold in plastic packaging from 2022. Writing exclusively for Packaging Europe, Robert Lilienfeld, founder and executive director of sustainable packaging...

Some of the world’s biggest brands are converting plastic waste into fuel. At this vast landfill in Indonesia, excavators are tearing into stinking mountains of garbage, looking for bubble wrap, take-out containers and single-use shopping...

With a focus on sustainability, HEX Performance® launched a stand-out packaging solution for its liquid detergent that is better for the planet and withstands the challenges of the e-commerce logistics chain. They chose Liquibox flexible...

Toppan, a global leader in communication, security, packaging, décor materials, and electronics solutions, has established a system at a number of its manufacturing plants to enable automated collection of environmental data such as effluent water...

San Francisco-based Brightmark has announced that a life cycle analysis of its pyrolysis-based process for mixed plastic scrap shows that it produces 39 percent to 139 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions than equivalent products made...

In off-the-cuff remarks at a pre-COP26 event, where Johnson answered children’s questions, he said that recycling plastic materials doesn’t work and that it “doesn’t begin to address the problem”. He added that everyone needed to...

The recent awarding of Siegwerk’s Vietnamese customer Thành Phú Packaging with the ERA Gravure Award for Sustainable Packaging not only confirms the development success of functional coatings for future-oriented recyclable packaging, but also strengthens the...

With the majority of press surrounding Microsoft’s recent Surface event focused upon the company’s intriguing more-than-meets-the-eye flagship laptop, the Surface Laptop Studio, alongside other 2-in-1 form factors reflective of the company’s commitment to convertible computing...

Trex Company, the world’s largest manufacturer of wood-alternative decking and railing, motivates K-12 students across the country to participate in the Trex®Plastic Film Recycling Challenge and earn an A+ for their schools by learning to...

ProAmpac, a leader in flexible packaging and material science, expressed its appreciation to four organizations for their recent recognition of the company’s contributions to sustainability, innovation, and package design in fresh food-to-go packaging. “This level...

Flex Films, the global film manufacturing arm of flexible packaging giant UFlex, launched its new avant-garde patented BOPET high barrier film F-UHB-M, designed to replace aluminium foil in flexible packaging applications. To be manufactured in...

Film packaging manufacturers have shown greater interest in ensuring the recyclability of their products in recent years. Newly released guidance is intended to help them. The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) published its updated and...

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) is writing to urge you to veto SB 343 (Allen), as despite its title, the bill will cause further confusion for Californian citizens and will not provide greater clarity concerning...

NOVA Chemicals Corporation published its 2020 Environment, Social, and Governance (ESG) Report. The report has a particular emphasis on the progress NOVA Chemicals is making on three priority topics: Plastics Circular Economy, Climate Care, and...

Dow announces it has earned multiple Critical Guidance Recognitions for recyclability from the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR), in three product categories. ROBOND™ Adhesives, OPULUX™ Optical Finishes and SURLYN™ Ionomers were each recognized by APR...

It’s National Chemistry Week, and ACC is proud to join the American Chemical Society, scientists and fans of chemistry to promote the value of chemistry in everyday life. Almost daily, we rely on thousands of...

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) urges Congress to expedite passage of the Senate Bipartisan Infrastructure package amendment to H.R. 3684 – Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (INVEST Act), with the inclusion of the RECYCLE Act...

France will ban plastic packaging for nearly all fruit and vegetables from January 2022 in a bid to reduce plastic waste, the environment ministry said on Monday. Implementing a February 2020 law, the government published...

Taghleef Industries announces the launch of SHAPE360® shrink films range, featuring a new and updated SHAPE360® TDS, the leading-edge solution for TD shrink sleeve labels. Sustainable, versatile, and highly appealing – SHAPE360® TDS is a...

Given the power of social media, it has become much easier for concerned consumers to make their voices heard. As the regulatory landscape continues to evolve, it has also become necessary for companies to become...

ExxonMobil plans to build its first, large-scale plastic waste advanced recycling facility in Baytown, Texas, and is expected to start operations by year-end 2022. By recycling plastic waste back into raw materials that can be...

AMP Robotics has a Silicon Valley–type solution to the knotty problem of postconsumer plastics: How do you harvest valuable materials from dirty streams of mixed waste? AMP’s technology is based on machine learning and works...

Alabama-based Auburn University, Tuskegee University and Southern Union State Community College have received a $1.9 million grant from the National Science Foundation to find new ways to recycle multilayer plastics. The grant funds a project...

As sustainability remains a hot topic, consumers are looking to brands to demonstrate that their efforts are more than surface level. In a challenging commercial environment that demands progress and innovation at every turn, how...

Dow has announced several investments in the pyrolysis chain in Europe and the US, including new capacity and purification units. The additional pyrolysis capacity will allow it to offer chemically recycled polymers to its customers...

We can probably all agree we have too much plastic pollution. We were all moved by the images of a plastic straw being pulled from the nose of a tortoise. I am probably not the...

Berry Global Group, Inc. announced its first three sites in North America to achieve the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS designation to support its growing North America based customer demand for more sustainable...

Dow announced its plan to build the world's first net-zero carbon emissions integrated ethylene cracker and derivatives site with respect to scope 1 and 2 carbon dioxide emissions. The project would more than triple Dow's...