Year: 2020
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Novamont and the Corona Crisis
In this moment of unprecedented emergency, we would like to share with you what Novamont has done, is doing and will do to face this unprecedented situation, that is putting a strain on our Countries, our societies, and the entire planet, deeply changing the daily lives for all of us.
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Nestle Joins European Plastics Pact
Nestlé announced the signing of the European Plastics Pact.
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Toray Expands
Toray says the final phase of a $40 million expansion enhances its leadership role in foam innovation.
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The Emergence of Super Plastics (FREE)
Innovative plastics additives can be used to transform regular plastics into “super plastics”.
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Recycling Technology Suppliers Are Booming
Contrary to the equipment suppliers for the automotive segment, the suppliers of waste disposal and recycling technology see a real boom in incoming orders.
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Lanxess Wants Circular Economy in India
Circular Economy is more than just recycling – for any organization, it means a strategic decision and goes hand in hand with new business models.
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Body Shop Cleans Beaches in Philippines
Conscious of the social and environmental problems the society of today exposes its inhabitants, The Body Shop has been one of the pioneers of sustainability. With that, it constantly seeks for new projects in order to help the world we live in.
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Microbe Degrades Polyurethane
A strain of an extremophile group of bacteria is capable of ingesting toxic organic compounds as its sole source of carbon, nitrogen and energy.
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Sulapac End of Life Nonsense
Sulapac gives us a good example of what not to do in terms of end-of-life greenwashing fairy tailing marketing.
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Recycling Mass Balance Certification Principles
ACC’s Plastics Division releases mass balance certification principles. Standards will trace and help increase plastics recycling as well as support markets, ACC says.
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Chemical Recycling on Blockchain
Like the lingering bit of advice from 1967’s “The Graduate,” plastics as a field of opportunity is being reimagined for the blockchain age. But this time, it’s for plastics recycling.
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Good Natured and the Corona Crisis
good natured® recognizes the critical role it plays by providing packaging to the food industry and prioritizes the importance of continuing operations through these challenging times. Our thoughts are with all those who’ve been personally impacted through this terrible crisis.
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Nestle Goes Single Material Packaging
Nestle has announced the launch of a first-of-its-kind, single-material pouch for its baby food products designed for the future of recycling.
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Lyondellbasell and the Corona Crisis
Each day we are presented with new challenges with the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Stock Market Manipulation and Corona Crisis
US hedge fund manager’s doom-laden TV appearance about coronavirus crisis sparked frenzied selling.
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New President German Chemical Federation
Christian Kullmann, chairman of the executive board of Evonik Industries AG, has been appointed new president of the German chemical industry association Verband der Chemischen Industrie (VCI) with immediate effect, succeeding Hans Van Bylen. Also by appointment of the VCI presidential council, Markus Steilemann (CEO of Covestro AG) has assumed the role of VCI vice-president.
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Taghleef Industries and the Corona Crisis
These days we are facing challenging times due to COVID-19 pandemic. In this unprecedented situation, Taghleef Industries is committed to safeguard the well-being of its workforce and to protect its entire supply chain to ensure business continuity.
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Henkel Reduces Virgin Fossil Plastic by Half
Henkel is stepping up its commitment for sustainability and has set further ambitious packaging targets for 2025 to promote a circular economy.
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UK Biomass Industry and the Corona Crisis
Industry leaders are urging Government to keep UK wood fuel supply chains fully open to ensure suppliers can continue delivering to home heating customers and key frontline organisations and businesses already under immense pressure due to the Coronavirus outbreak.
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UK Foodservice Packaging Association and the Corona Crisis
We can only describe this last week as simply dreadful. Actions taken and advised by government this week were unimaginable only a few days ago and we know many of you have had to make some very unpalatable decisions.
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What is Essential Service in Canada?
As health officials continue to urge employers to implement safety measures that reduce the spread of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19 – which includes limiting hours and staff – the B.C. government is offering clarity on what specific services are being considered essential in the province.
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Multinationals Make Social Distancing Logos
McDonald’s, Coca-Cola, Audi and Volkswagen are just a few of the corporate conglomerates that are interpreting “social distancing” with logo redesigns.
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Novamont Lose Compostable Bag Exemption in US
As states New York and Maine are pulling back on single-use plastic grocery bag bans in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, Connecticut may have missed an opportunity to not only have environmentally safe single-use grocery bags, but also bring more business and jobs to the state.
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Corona Pandemic Leads to Plastic Ban Reversals
Health concerns are trumping environmental worries as U.S. states and cities reverse single-use plastic bans.
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Radicigroup and the Corona Crisis
RadiciGroup and Atalanta take it to the pitch, but this time it is a match for solidarity.
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Mitsui Loss $642 Mln due to Corona Crisis
Mitsui in a statement said it is likely to book an impairment loss on its stakes in the Eagle Ford shale oil and gas project in the United States and the Tempa Rossa oil field in Italy among other oil and gas projects due to plunging oil prices.
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EU Measures to Support Auto Industry in Corona Crisis
The financial impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the automotive industry is severe. Both production and sales of motor vehicles have come to a sudden halt in most of Europe and other regions in the world.
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Term Single Use Plastic Harming Recycling
Recent research conducted on behalf of the Natural Source Waters Association clearly shows the need to be careful of the terms and language used when talking about plastics and recycling.
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Corona Crisis Exploited by Plastics Industry
The Plastics Industry Association has written a letter to the US Department of Health and Human Services and Food and Drug Administration asking them to “make a public statement on the health and safety benefits seen in single-use plastics,” and to “speak out against bans on these products as a public safety risk… and help…
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DSM and the Corona Crisis
As covid-19 has spread in recent months, the ongoing work and commitment of the heroes in DSM’s manufacturing and logistics teams make it possible to have food on store shelves and medical supplies in hospitals.
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Al Ain Launches Compostable Plant Bottle in Dubai
A local water company will start selling a bottle made from plant-based materials to reduce the amount of plastic it produces. New bottle to be available in hotels and airports by May.
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Is Aluminium Recycling More Circular than Plastic Recycling?
The ‘circular economy’ approach has received ever-greater attention amid rising concerns about impacts of carbon emissions and demands from investors and consumers for environmentally sustainable products and business practices.
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NWRA Asks Congress for Stimulus
The National Waste and Recycling Association (NWRA) urges Congress to take up the economic stimulus package and pass it without delay.
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Chemical Recycling Project Converts Marine Plastic into Fishing Boat Fuel
The RespescaPlas Project, which began in January 2018, has completed its first year with more than 3,000 kilos of marine litter collected from the water in the ports of Marín and Vigo (Galicia) and Gandia, (Valencia).
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Young Disruptive UK Female Engineers
The Department of Engineering and Design at the University of Sussex supports the achievements of their female engineering students and academics. From bioplastic materials to medical technologies: Celebrating Sussex female engineers.
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Renewable Preservation for Cosmetics by Clariant
Reduce preservative amounts while keeping antimicrobial protection even in high aqueous formulations.
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Biobased Chemicals Update 2020
Since the first issue of the IEA Bioenergy Task 42 report on bio-based chemicals in 2011, the importance of a circular economy has become evident. In the transition to a circular economy, chemicals and materials produced from biomass will play a key role. Given the tremendous focus on climate and actions to mitigate climate change,…
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Renewable Products Tax Credit in Maine
On Wednesday, March 18, Governor Janet Mills signed LD 1698: An Act to Create Jobs and Slow Climate Change by Promoting the Production of Natural Resources Bioproducts into law.
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Solvay and the Corona Crisis
Solvay’s CEO shares a message of gratitude, commitment and hope during the coronavirus pandemic that is placing unprecedented challenges on us all.
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Indonesia Going for Blue Bioplastic Leadership
Edible cups made from seaweed. Shopping bags from cassava starch. Food containers from sugarcane fiber. These are some of the bioplastic alternatives being tried out in Indonesia, the world’s No. 2 producer of seaweed.
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ALPLA Group and Corona Crisis
The coronavirus pandemic which continues to spread is presenting us with some major challenges. The health and safety of our employees are ALPLA’s top priority.
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International Border Crossing Observatory
In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic many countries across the globe are closing their borders. In order to reduce economic and social impacts and keep supply chains working as smoothly as possible, #UNECE, #UNESCWA, #IRU and other partners have launched an online “Observatory on Border Crossings Status due to COVID-19” which provides an overview…
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Dirty Banks
America’s JP Morgan Chase has pumped more than the GDP of Finland into fossil fuels expansion since the Paris climate accord of 2015, while Japan’s and China’s mega banks have also been ‘failing miserably’ in their response to climate change over the last four years, a report from a coalition of NGOs has shown.
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Impact of Coronavirus on Green Investments
IEA warns that Covid-19 could cause a slowdown in world’s clean energy transition.
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Will Coke PET Recycling Become a Fiasco in the Philippines?
Activists say the facility, a joint venture between the beverage giant and Thai packaging firm Indorama Ventures, would still require virgin feedstock derived from fossil fuels. They also took issue with the companies’ claim that PET bottles are not single-use packaging.
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Food Delivery vs Corona Virus
‘Wash your own hands after removing the packaging and before eating your food’.
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Elle Canada Not in Favour of PLA
How to Properly Recycle Beauty Product Packaging? Chances are you’re going through a lot of soap and hand lotion right now.
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Brussels Supermarkets Hit by Corona Crisis
Let’s have a look at the situation in a Brussels supermarket close to the EU Parliament and Commission used by EU officials. It will give you an idea of how EU officials are experiencing the corona crisis.
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Raw Material Shortage to Impact Food Packaging in Europe
Concern raw material shortages could impact on availability of food packaging.
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Breakthrough in Viscose Production from Textile Waste
Sateri, the world’s largest producer of viscose, has successfully produced on commercial scale viscose fibre regenerated from textile waste. The high quality new fibre uses a mix of dissolving pulp made from recycled post-consumer textile waste by Swedish company Södra, and other PEFC-certified wood pulp.
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Impact of Corona on European Recycling Industry
Sources are particularly worried about limited volumes entering collection systems, logistic disruptions, potential downstream demand losses in non-packaging sectors, buyers abandoning sustainability measures and a reduction in necessary long-term investment.
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Osaka University Develops Marine Biodegradable Plastics
Whether it’s entangling marine animals, clogging their guts when they eat it, or forming giant floating “garbage patches,” oceanic plastic waste is a huge problem. There may be new hope however, in the form of what is claimed to be a better type of marine-biodegradable plastic.
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French Chemical Industry Facing Corona
Interview with Magali Smets, managing director of the French Chemical Federation (France Chimie), on the consequences of the Corona virus on the French chemical industry.
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Tote Bags Spread Corona Virus
The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “sustainable” shopping bags that politicians and environmentalists have been so eager to impose on the public. These reusable tote bags can sustain the COVID-19 and flu viruses — and spread the viruses throughout the store.
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Circular Economy According to Forbes
From the late 1970s, we started going to the bottle bank to deposit (smash) our red, green and clear bottles in the appropriate recycling bin. And in 2003, the Household Waste Recycling Act was passed. This meant that by 2010, local authorities in the UK had to provide every household with recycling services, making the…
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Zero Waste in Japan
For 20 years Kamikatsu has led the way in the world’s second biggest producer of plastic waste.
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Will Coronavirus End BYO Container Schemes?
The BYO movement has been an important cog in the nascent circular economy in Asia Pacific. But will the Covid-19 coronavirus kill off such schemes over the fear that they may spread germs?
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Biobased and Renewable Products Advocacy Group News
The Latest BRAG (Biobased and Renewable Products Advocacy Group) post.
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Flexible Packaging Association and the Corona Crisis
FPA wrote a letter to the White House.
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British Plastics Federation and the Corona Crisis
The British Plastics Federation wrote a letter to the UK Government and published a study / survey on the Corona Crisis.
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Borealis and the Corona Crisis
Borealis employs stringent health and safety measures to protect employees and maintain business continuity. We are taking all steps within our power to help stop the spread of the #Coronavirus disease outbreak, to protect our employees and business partners and ensure safe operations.
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EUROPEN Urges EU to Recognise Packaging Industry
The members of EUROPEN, the European Organisation for Packaging and the Environment, are doing their utmost to maintain the necessary supply of food and hygiene products as well as medicines to citizens throughout Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Corbion Sustainability Performance 2019
We are proud to share that we have reduced our carbon footprint by 12% per ton of product, compared to our 2016 base year. We are well on our way to meet our 33% science-based reduction target by 2030!
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Japan Starts Large Scale Ocean Microplastics Survey
Japanese shipping company NYK has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Chiba Institute of Technology to use its ships to collect and analyze microplastics in oceans around the world.
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Can Recycling be Sustainable in Australia?
We’ve all seen the pictures: the giant island of rubbish in the ocean, marine animals with plastic around their necks and streetways blanketed in single-use bags, showing the villainous role plastic has on the world’s habitats.
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Side Effects of Bioplastic Policies
“Good intentions” do not generally produce “good results.” This wisdom also applies to establishing coherent environmental policies. Without proper oversight and planning, environmental policies can lead to unintended and harmful side effects.
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UK Tax to Boost Circular Economy and Recycling Infrastructure
With the UK set to bring in a new tax on plastic packaging, leading sustainability authority Bureau Veritas has revealed that the levy represents a ‘real boost’ for the circular economy.
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Students Against Plastic Bottles in Connecticut
What do environmental activists look like? Some might be surprised to learn that they look like three Whitby School 7th graders who are the founding members of Greenwich Bottles No More (GBNM).
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Sustainable Australian Fashion
Australian labels rewriting the rules by taking a stand for sustainability.
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Huhtamaki Renewable and Recyclable Products
Our goal is to have 100% of the wood fiber we use from recycled or certified sustainable sources. Our products, such as Fresh ready meal trays or Future Smart paper cups are made of materials from certified sources.
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Versalis Circular Economy Initiatives
Versalis considers circularity to be a strategic driver applied to processes and products throughout their life cycle.
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Ocean Plastic Watches
The campaign called „Time for oceans“ is made together wird #Tide Ocean Material in Switzerland.
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Puma Launches Ocean Plastic Sportswear Collection
German multinational sportswear brand Puma has created a new collection of footwear and clothing made using recycled plastic. In collaboration with First Mile, a United Kingdom-based company supporting low-income communities around the world, Puma used more than 190,000 recovered plastic bottles to make yarns to produce the products.
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Wales SUP Ban in 2021
Welsh government is to ban single-use plastic items in Wales from the first half of 2021, the government of the UK’s country said on Wednesday.
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Floreon and Clariant Partner on High Performance Biopolymers
Clariant and Floreon Announce Collaboration to Expand High-performance Biopolymer Applications to Additional Markets.
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French Believe to be the Best in Bioplastic Research
From “intelligent” bandages made from shrimp shells to insulation materials from micro-algae, researchers are working on tomorrow’s bioplastics in laboratories in Strasbourg.
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Will Covid-19 Enable 3D Printing Breakthrough?
When a hospital in Italy realized they were running out of valves for ventilators needed by those most severely affected by COVID-19, a local startup managed to get to the hospital to manufacture the valves using 3D-printing.
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EU Circular Economy Plan Will Impact China
To keep selling to the EU market, many products will need to meet new requirements.
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Tough PLA Filament for 3D Printing
Introducing 3D Universe Terrafilum Tough PLA Filament for 3D Printing.
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European Bioplastics Raises Concerns over EASAC Report
EUBP Raises Concerns Over Biased Easac Report on Biobased and Biodegradable Plastics.
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EASAC Warns Against Biobased and Biodegradable
The European Academies of Science (EASAC) warn that current efforts to resolve the plastics crisis are ineffective and misleading.
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Lego Bricks Survive 1300 Years in Ocean
A LEGO brick could survive in the ocean for as many as 1,300 years, according to new research.
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Grain Waste Converted into Biocrude Oil
Beermakers use about 400 million tons of grain during the brewing process — converting it to a mass of wet mush that is discarded one way or another.
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Chemical vs Mechanic Recycling
Chemical recycling splits polymer chains and supplies products such as crude oil, naphtha, or fuels. Mechanical recycling preserves the molecular structure.
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McDonalds Stops Plastic Toys
Fast food firm says from 2021, Happy Meals sold in the UK will contain soft toys, paper gifts gifts or books.
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Inline Plastics Goes rPET
Inline Plastics, Shelton, Conn., is integrating rDPET into its products, using post-consumer content from recycled products.
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Can Paper Alternatives Replace Plastic Dog Waste Bags?
Pooch Paper Dog Waste Sheets are an eco-friendly, biodegradable alternative to plastic dog poop bags. The paper sheets are easy to fold up and put in your pocket before heading out on a walk with your dog.
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Comments on the Project Drawdown
The ban on single-use plastics in Canada will come into effect in 2021, which has prompted the following question: how do we replace the plastics that have become so integrated into our lives?
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Bioplastics in the Drawdown Project
Most plastics are made from fossil fuels, but bioplastics utilize plants as an alternative source of carbon. They often have lower emissions and sometimes biodegrade.
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BioBased Lid Wins UK Product Innovation Award
Huhtamaki’s Future Smart™ Duo Lid won the Product Innovation Award for front of house at the prestigious UK Foodservice Packaging Awards last Thursday.
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Future of Flexible Packaging According to Covestro
What do deliciously crunchy chips, crisp green salad and fresh roasted coffee beans have in common? Their bags and pouches belong to a quickly growing category known as flexible packaging – currently the most widely used form of packaging worldwide.
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Mitsubishi Chemical Joins Value Balancing Alliance
Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corporation announced that it has become the first Japanese company to join the value balancing alliance e.V. (VBA), an organization established in June 2019 to create a global impact measurement and valuation standard for disclosing positive and negative impacts of corporate activity.
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Spectral Imaging of PLA and PHA Laminate
Two-Dimensional Correlation Analysis of Highly Spatially Resolved Simultaneous IR and Raman Spectral Imaging of Bioplastics Composite Using Optical Photothermal Infrared and Raman Spectroscopy. Closely spaced optical photothermal infrared (O-PTIR) spectra were measured across the interface of a PLA/PHA laminate.
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DOE Invests Millions in Chemical Recycling
Department of Energy Announces up to $25 Million for Plastics Recycling Research and Development.
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Reusable PET Bottles by ALPLA
ALPLA has further developed a 1-litre reusable PET bottle together with KHS, the specialist for bottling and packaging systems. The refillable bottle weighs up to ten grams less than the standard bottles that are currently available and can include recycled materials too.
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Glasgow to Boost Recycling
Glasgow to see bin collection changes in recycling boost. Streets in the north-east of Glasgow could see changes to kerbside collection.
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