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…
First Mile has joined forces with Fashion for Good in a new pilot scheme that aims to test a key part of the infrastructure of a potential circular system to tackle the issue of plastic polybag waste.
We spoke with San-Francisco-based start-up, Primitives, about its compostable bioplastic product that can sense and respond to the environment around it.
How do we determine the value of polymers in a vast global marketplace, and with a balancing act between developing solutions by adding properties to polymers, versus the overall carbon emissions and sustainability of the packaging material?
A recently updated and extended study by the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (ifeu), commissioned by Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE), appears to underline the original study’s findings.
