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…
HolyGrail 2.0’s latest industrial-scale sorting trials – driven by AIM, the European Brands Association, and powered by the Alliance to End Plastic Waste – claim to have exceeded a detection efficiency of over 90% and a daily detection rate of almost 56,000 items of post-household rigid packaging.
The final industrial scale tests of HolyGrail 2.0, the groundbreaking collaboration to investigate the impact of digital watermarking in improving efficiency of recycling, are completed. While the final results are being processed, we look back on the progress made by the project and ask what…
The HolyGrail 2.0 Initiative has announced the successful validation of digital watermarking technology in combination with NIR for advanced sorting of flexible packaging, with a focus on the separation of hygiene-grade LDPE films and food-grade PP films.
The HolyGrail 2.0 initiative and GS1 are developing an Open Data Architecture for an intelligent sorting ecosystem – having selected GS1’s GTIN standard to bring the solution to market.
In a new project under the HolyGrail 2.0 Initiative, ALPLA, Farm Dairy, and Pellenc ST will help test the feasibility of FiliGrade Sustainable Watermarks’ CurvCode watermarking technology in closing the loop on HDPE milk bottles in the Netherlands.
The HolyGrail 2.0 initiative is entering its final phase of R&D trials to prepare for market entry and the launch of a pilot market in France in 2024 – involving sorting and reprocessing trials for digitally watermarked rigid packaging, flexible plastics, and more.
In the third phase of the HolyGrail 2.0 initiative, Aldi Nord and the Aldi South Group are implementing watermark technology into their packaging; this is hoped to improve sorting in waste facilities and optimise recycling in pursuit of circularity.
The HolyGrail 2.0 digital watermarking initiative has apparently succeeded in separating food and non-food PET packaging waste streams in an industrial environment, with the development hoping to contribute towards the decontamination of food-grade PET output streams at recycling plants.
The HolyGrail 2.0 initiative has entered its next project phase, in which its digital watermarking technology will be tested for such features as detection, ejection, and purity at three industrial-level testing facilities in France and Germany.
The HolyGrail 2.0 initiative has successfully validated the prototype detection unit for digital watermarks after semi-industrial testing that mimics real-life conditions, with a 99% detection rate and the opportunity to develop new, more granular post-consumer recycling streams that do not yet…
Procter and Gamble’s Lenor brand recently announced two important sustainability updates. It has transitioned away from opaque bottles to shrink-sleeved transparent ones, and integrated digital watermaking in a bid to simplify the sorting and recycling process.
Throughout autumn 2021 of 2021, the HolyGrail 2.0 hosted a series of open house events in Copenhagen, the site of the latest semi-industrial trials of digitally watermarked packaging on municipal sorting lines.
