Category: Packaging
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Parkside Joins HiBarFilm2 Consortium for Mono Materials Packaging
Parkside lends sustainable packaging expertise to Innovate UK-funded mono-material project
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Yunhong Launches Yunhong Biotechnology for Compostable
Yunhong CTI Ltd. Announces the Arrival of Yunhong Biotechnology, Inc.
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Great Wrap Develops Potato Waste Cling Wrap
Australian materials science company Great Wrap has used potato waste to develop home compostable cling wrap.
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Tipa and Aquapak Partner on Circular Packaging Solutions
TIPA & Aquapak collaborate to meet industry demand for new innovative circular packaging solutions
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New PBS Food Packaging
Nowadays most of food packaging is derived from petrochemicals and not always biodegradable.
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Just Eat and UEFA Launch Seaweed Biodegradable Packaging at EURO final
Talk about kelping the environment! Just Eat launches compostable SEAWEED food packaging at the Women’s EURO final in drive to tackle plastic pollution
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Domino Printing and Futamura Partner on Compostable Laser Coding
Laser Coding of NatureFlex™ Compostable Film for Food Packaging: Domino and Futamura Collaboration
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Green Dot Bioplastics Launches Compostable Resins for Packaging
New Film, Thermoforming, and Injection Molding Grades are Ready to Meet Sustainability Demands of Brand Owners and Consumers
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China Cosmetic Packaging Goes Eastman Renew
onTop cosmetics is first Chinese beauty brand to launch sustainable cosmetic packaging made with Eastman Cristal™ Renew copolyester
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Clariant, Siegwerk, Borealis, and Beiersdorf Partner on Circular Cosmetics Packaging
Unique value chain collaboration “Design4Circularity” achieves first circular cosmetics packaging concept
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Nova Chemicals Technology for Circular Plastic Films
NOVA Chemicals Expands its HDPE Resins for Oriented Film Structures to Advance a Plastics Circular Economy
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Indian Tobacco Industry Goes Bioplastics
Tobacco Institute of India Clarifies that its Members have moved from Regular Plastic Wrapping to Biodegradable Wrapping on its Cigarette Packs
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10 Greenwashing Champions
Brands exposed for ‘misleading and mendacious’ packaging claims
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The Merlin Project
MERLIN: a project increasing the quality and rate of multilayer packaging recycling waste
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Rutgers Scientist Develops Antimicrobial Plant-Based Food Wrap
Rutgers Scientist Develops Antimicrobial, Plant-Based Food Wrap Designed to Replace Plastic
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Take Away Packaging Are Source of Microplastics in Body
Analysis of Microplastics in Takeaway Food Containers in China Using FPA-FTIR Whole Filter Analysis
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UMaine Develops Recyclable Nanocellulose Food Containers
University of Maine engineers have created a grease-proof, water-resistant container from recyclable cellulose nanocomposites that could be the next big thing in takeout technology.
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India to Reduce Supply of Packaging Raw Materials
Govt announces measures to reduce supply of raw material to enforce ban on single-use plastic
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Aino Goes Biobased Ice Cream Packaging
The feedstock for the Bornewables PP from Borealis is derived from second-generation bio-mass, waste and residue streams that are not competing with the human food chain. The renewable content is accredited by mass balance according to ISCC PLUS …. Accredited by mass balance? Another brilliant idea by BASF
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US Senate Committee Passes PFAS Packaging Ban
Bipartisan amendment to ban PFAS chemicals in food packaging passed in key Senate committee today — Besides PFAS in food packaging, the question remains what will happen to soil, land, rivers etc. polluted with PFAS? Extended Producer Responsibility should apply to PFAS too.
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McDo Shareholders Support Reducing Plastic Packaging
41% of McDonald’s Shareholders Support New Action on Reducing Plastics Packaging Pollution
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Dow Flexible Packaging Recycling in Africa
Dow Expands Flexible Packaging Recycling Effort Across Africa — Interesting! Flexible packaging isn’t being recycled in the EU and US, so I wonder what they’re doing differently in Africa?
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SKC Sells PE Film Business to Focus on PBAT
SKC sells plastic film business to private equity — It’s completely nuts to gamble everything on PBAT. Especially, when PE may well be the first and only plastic to reach circular status.
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P&G Goes Shampoo Bars
P&G continues to raise the bar in sustainability, announcing its first high-performing shampoo bars across its European haircare portfolio: Head & Shoulders, Pantene, Herbal Essences and Aussie.
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EPR Checklist for Flexible Packaging
Positive signs of momentum and urgency to make the circular economy a reality for flexible packaging materials — An EPR Checklist? And they’re going to call it a major step forward? And we’re supposed to celebrate this?
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VTT Develops Transparent Cellulose Film
VTT develops transparent cellulose film to replace traditional plastic in food packaging — When it comes to using “wood” to produce packaging, there’s the risk of deforestation. However, Finland may be an exception as they have different forests and forestry management experience.
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Corona India Goes Biodegradable and Compostable Packaging
Corona India Launches New 100% Biodegradable And Compostable Packaging Using Barley Straw
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Chrysal Compostable Sachet Receives Home Compostable Certificate
Chrysal Compostable Sachet Receives Home Compostable Certificate
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Earth & Wheat and Treetop Biopak Partner on Compostable Packaging
‘Wonky’ bread subscription service Earth & Wheat has teamed up with Treetop Biopak to switch to compostable packaging.
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Californian School Discovers Problem with Compostable Packaging
Compostable School Lunch Packaging Isn’t Actually Compostable
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Tipa and G Mondini Partner on Compostable Wet Food Container
TIPA Partners with G.Mondini to Produce Home Compostable Wet Food Container
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Hong Kong Introduces Polluter Pays for Beverage Containers
Polluter Pays Principle Introduces New Levies on Beverage Containers
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Retailers Greenwashing on Plastic Report
Check out new Changing Markets Foundation and Break Free From Plastic report investigating where European #supermarkets stand on #plasticpollution crisis.
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Paris Packaging Week 2022 (FREE)
At the heart of packaging innovation for beauty, premium drinks, luxury and FMCG. This is the only event I will be attending in person this year. This is a FREE article
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Sorting and Separating Technologies for Bioplastics Packaging
A Review of Sorting and Separating Technologies Suitable for Compostable and Biodegradable Plastic Packaging
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Eco Products Compostable Sandwich Wrap
Eco-Products Introduces New Compostable Sandwich Wrap
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World Centric Expands NoTree Compostable Collection
World Centric® Expands NoTree® 100% Compostable Collection with New Tall and Rectangular Takeout Containers
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Shiseido Ulé Goes for Sulapac Lid
Shiseido introduces the first vertical farm beauty brand Ulé – with lids made with sustainable Sulapac material
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Smurfit Kappa First Packaging Company to be Vegan Certified
The Vegan Society’s Vegan Trademark has today (14 March) surpassed another huge milestone as it registered its 60,000th product.
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Biobased Smart Packaging Tackles Food Waste
Bio-based smart packaging for enhanced preservation of food quality — ECHO INSTRUMENTS, Technology to Measure & Analyse Plastic Biodegradation
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Australian Bioplastics Startup Almost Crowd Funded $ 1 Million
So close: Compostable packaging gurus HeapsGood wrap up almost $1m in crowdfunding round
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McDonalds and Burger King Face PFAS Class Action
McDonald’s and Burger King are being sued for use of ‘forever chemicals’ in packaging
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First Compostable Packaging for Deli Meats
C-P Flexible Packaging and Volpi Foods Launch First Fully Compostable Package for Packaged Deli Meats
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Eastman and NC State University Partner on Compostable Take Out Containers
Design Students Develop Compostable Take-Out Container Prototypes in Project Sponsored by Eastman
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R&R Smith Goes Compostable Packaging
A Triumph over Single-Use-Plastic: Leading Australian Produce Supplier R&R Smith Adopt Certified Home Compostable Packs for Organic Apples
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Two Indian Startups Set to Change the Game
Two Indian startups set to change the packaging and bags landscape.
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Greaseproof, Hydrophobic and Biodegradable Bioplastics for Food Packaging
Greaseproof, hydrophobic, and biodegradable food packaging bioplastics from C6-fluorinated cellulose esters
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New Zealand Recommends Cautious Approach for Compostable Packaging (FREE)
The Ministry for the Environment has issued a warning about compostable packaging – likening it to single-use plastics. This is a FREE article
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Mattel to Reduce Plastic Packaging
Mattel Announces Goal to Reduce Plastic Packaging by 25% per Product by 2030 and Publishes Latest Citizenship Report
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Tea Spot Goes Compostable Packaging
The Tea Spot introduces 100% compostable packaging for Earth Day
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Costa Coffee Goes Bio Based Lids
Costa Coffee, the Nation’s Favourite Coffee Shop, has today announced the launch of a new trial of 100% fibre lids.
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Bimbo Canada Goes Compostable Bread Bag Clips
Bimbo Canada Becomes First National Bakery In North America To Introduce Compostable Bread Bag Clips
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Good Start Packaging Says Home Compostable Doesn’t Work
Good Start Packaging Working to Reduce Environmental Impact of Takeout Food
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Walmart Launches Circular Connector
Innovation Meets Implementation: Walmart Launches Circular Connector
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Dell Goes Ocean and Bioplastic Laptop
New Latitude 5000 Series Are Dell’s Most Sustainable Laptops Yet
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Antibacterial Food Packaging by Schur Flexibles
Antibacterial coating on films. Schur Flexibles presents antibacterial solution to optimise point of sale hygiene
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Lay’s Goes Compostable Packaging at Coachella
Lay’s will test compostable packaging at the Coachella Festival
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Sulapac and Lumene Partner on Packaging
Finnish companies Lumene and Sulapac collaborate to become one of the world’s first to sell water-based cosmetics in sustainable packaging that leaves no traces behind
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UBQ and Ambev Partner on Waste Based Packaging
UBQ Materials provides technology for Ambev to integrate sustainable plastic-substitute in Brazilian trade products
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Good Natured to Supply Compostable Packaging to ForageGirl Fiddleheads
good natured® and ForageGirl Fiddleheads are Reducing the Footprint from Farm to Plate
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RMIT Develops New Antibacterial Packaging Technology
Bacteria-shredding insect wings inspire new antibacterial packaging
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Burger King New Packaging Strategy
Burger King goes for reusable packaging and bans PFAS
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Sabic and Polivouga Partner on Ocean Plastic Packaging
Sabic, Polivouga And Nueva Pescanova Collaborate In Seafood Packaging Solution Using Certified Circular Pe From Ocean Bound Plastic
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Need for Degradable Takeout Packaging may Decline as Commercial Sector Implements Food Recycling (FREE)
David Goldstein, an environmental resource analyst with the Ventura County Public Works Agency writes about the declining need for degradable takeout packaging. This is a FREE article.
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Improving Properties of Pectin Films for Food Packaging
Strategies to Improve the Barrier and Mechanical Properties of Pectin Films for Food Packaging: Comparing Nanocomposites with Bilayers
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Design Guidelines for Fibre Based Packaging
The cross-industry initiative, 4evergreen alliance, has released its Circularity by Design guideline aimed at providing the packaging value chain with clear recommendations for designing fibre-based packaging for recycling from the start of its lifecycle
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Food Giants Launch Flexible Packaging Initiative
Food companies pledge for increased investments in a Circular Economy for flexible plastic packaging
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Agilyx Goes Pharma Packaging
Agilyx joins the Sustainable Medicines Partnership to enable and implement closed-loop recycling for pharmaceutical packaging
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UK Retailers Launch The Refill Coalition
A group of UK retailers has come together in the first-ever Refill Coalition collaborating to co-design a new innovative refill solution, with the potential to test in stores later this year.
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Ceflex Receives Funding for Eco Design Flexible Packaging (FREE)
CEFLEX awarded UK Research and Innovation funding for flexible packaging design testing programme. This is a FREE article
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The Difference Between Natureflex and Cellophane (FREE)
What is the difference between Cellophane and Natureflex? This is a FREE article
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Tipa and Silbo Partner on Flexible Packaging
SILBO in partnership with TIPA creates innovations in flexible packaging
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Canada Recycled Content Policy
Canada to Set Recycled Content Requirements for Beverage Containers and Other Plastic Items
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Flexible Packaging Inflation
Soaring energy costs add more pressure on flexible material prices
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PepsiCo and UBQ Partner on Plastic Made From Household Waste
PepsiCo uses innovative plastic alternative that prevents GHG emissions into the atmosphere
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Bioplastic Packacking Value Chain Report
Report on the value chain of bioplastic packaging
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Britvic Partners with Xampla on Material
Britvic announces £1m packaging innovation partnership with University of Cambridge-backed deep tech company Xampla
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Parkside Extends Bird & Blend Collaboration
Sustainable flexible packaging specialist, Parkside, has announced it has extended its collaboration with award-winning tea company, Bird & Blend
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TotalEnergies to Supply Chemically Recycled Content to Berry Global (FREE)
TotalEnergies and Berry Global Advance Material Circularity by Using Recycled Plastic in Food Packaging.
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Jac Vandenberg Goes Home Compostable Packaging
NY based Jac Vandenberg introduces home compostable packaging for a line of products
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Footprint Launches Supermarket Solutions
Footprint Tackles Every Aisle with Sustainable Supermarket Solutions
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i Do Herbs Goes Compostable Packaging
I- Do! Packs New Herb Assortment In Bio4Pack Compostable Packaging
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Bioplastic Oyster Tray Wins Worldstar Packaging Awards
Blue Harvest and BioPak have created the world’s first custom-moulded oyster tray made from sugarcane pulp, a real game changer for the aquaculture sector.
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Dishwasher Testing of PHBV and Lignocellulosic BioComposites
Physical-Chemical and Structural Stability of Poly(3HB-co-3HV)/(ligno-)cellulosic Fibre-Based Biocomposites over Successive Dishwashing Cycles
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Fabbri Group Launches Compostable Film
New sustainable cling film is being introduced by Fabbri Group
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Finland to Become Biobased Packaging Leader
SUSBINCO project aims to make Finland a global leader in bio-based packaging
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PepsiCo Goes Biobased Snack Packaging
PepsiCo goes for biobased snack packaging in France
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Australia Dealing with PFAS in Fibre Based Packaging
The problem of PFAS in fibre based packaging and how Australia will deal with it
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Parkside and Mintons Partner on Compostable Packaging
Parkside Expands Sustainable Portfolio with Mintons Collaboration
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Tipa and Ulma Partner on Sustainable Packaging
ULMA partners with TIPA to prepare for industry shift to bio-materials
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Vancouver Residents Respond to SUP Ban
Despite using sustainable products, one business still has to charge the city’s $0.25 fee
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A Case for Landfill Biodegradable Plastics
Selecting packaging, what makes sense: Bio-based? Recyclable? Biodegradable? Compostable?
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Cellulose Valley Launched in France
Launch of the Cellulose Valley : creating new cellulose packaging
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First Refillable Paper Compostable Skincare Pouches
World’s First Refillable Paper Compostable Skincare Pouches
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