On 5 June, the European Commission published a Commission Notice providing further clarity about the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation in practice. We take a closer look at the document to understand its requirements in detail, including the current status of PFAS restrictions, the…
In this Innovation Spotlight, Dow outlines how its extrusion coating portfolio aims to support recyclability requirements and regulatory readiness, and how its collaboration with RDM Group demonstrates how lightweight polymer coatings can extend the use of fibre-based packaging into applications…
We find out about Keiryo Packaging’s new technology that sets out to improve polymers’ performance by introducing a 3D printed part into existing industrial assets. The company is a finalist in the pre-commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category.
The UPLIFT project, a finalist in our pre-commercialized Recyclable Packaging Sustainability Awards category, is a multi-stakeholder project developed by researchers at Aalborg University which focuses on the biological depolymerization of bio- and fossil-based plastic packaging waste.
The next of our pre-commercialized innovation Sustainability Awards finalists is NOVA Chemicals, with its mono-material oxygen barrier packaging material which has been shortlisted in the ‘Recyclable Packaging’ category.
Next in our series of Sustainability Awards finalist interviews, we find out more about SIPZ, an innovation that is set to disrupt the nutrition and performance powder space.
Nineteen European partners have united under Buddie-Pack, a reusable plastic packaging project aiming to promote the utilisation of recycled plastics by preserving their protective properties and developing new cleaning solutions – an effort reportedly backed by the European Union.
Dow Packaging and Speciality Plastics is working alongside HP Indigo, Reifenhäuser, Cadel Deinking, and Karlville to implement the R-Cycle digital product passport into its pouch-to-pouch mechanical recycling concept, intending to improve its sorting and recycling processes by enabling traceability.
Ryp Labs explains how their StixFresh stickers set out to extend the shelf life of fresh produce in the latest of our Sustainability Awards 2022 finalist interviews.
A sorting test carried out by TotalEnergies Corbion and TOMRA Recycling claims to have proven the feasibility of sorting PLA from other plastics in municipal mixed plastic waste streams.
European supply chains are facing intense pressure under the strain of various social and political disruptions. For Phil Reuben, executive director at SCALA, adaptation is the way forward. In this article, he weighs in on the progress supply chains can make to work towards survival in turbulent…
We speak to polycirQ to learn more about their technology which boosts the yield of high-quality recyclate by removing printing inks from LDPE and PP films. The company is a finalist in the pre-commercialized Driving the Circular Economy category of our Sustainability Awards 2022.
American sports beverage brand Gatorade, part of PepsiCo, has launched a new bottle that tracks personalised hydration needs and indicates to athletes when to drink, via a cap that lights up as an alert mechanism.
AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, is working on developing bioplastics for active cosmetics packaging made from trees and shrubs, within the EU-funded BeonNAT Project.
