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Novel processes Send Apple Waste Packing

  A new study by researchers at Oregon State University details a key advance in turning apple waste into an environmentally friendly packaging material that…

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DS Smith exploring plans for seaweed paper and packaging

    The company says that this move could see it use seaweed across its packaging network as an alternative fibre source to wood. Following…

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More Than 100 Leading Businesses Call for EPR for Packaging

    Today for the first time, more than 100 businesses in the packaging value chain, together with more than 50 other organisations, publicly recognise…

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New Recycling Realities for Packaging

It should come as no surprise that one of the fastest growing commodities in the world is packaging. Since 2017, paper-based packaging consumption has grown…

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Corona provided more packaging waste

The waste management industry has also been hit hard by the Corona crisis: Waste volumes and the composition of waste have fluctuated greatly, and waste…

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Survey reveals need for education, greater access to improve plastics recycling

Packaging provider Hi-Cone, Itasca, Illinois, has released its second annual State of Plastic Recycling report, revealing the need for ongoing education and greater access to…

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Zero Waste Europe: beverage carton recycling rates substantially lower than reported

The ‘Recycling of multilayer composite packaging: the beverage carton’ paper calculated the estimated recycling rates of beverage cartons in the UK, Germany, Spain, and Sweden…

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Reusable packaging up to 85 per cent more climate-friendly than single-use, says report

A report released earlier this week (7 December) by Zero Waste Europe and Reloop, in partnership with the University of Utrecht, has found that reusable…

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Packaging developer Choose toasts ’world’s first’ biodegradable paper bottle

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Pandemic drives urgency to recycle, says survey

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Nestle outlines plans to bring UK’s first commercial scale chemical plastic recycling plant online

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PepsiCo funnels millions into recycled plastics, solar power and low-emission vehicles

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Set, miss, repeat: big brands and plastic recycling targets

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Plastic waste from e-commerce packaging is a big problem in China, so Shanghai is trying to fight it

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Crisps, chocolate and cheese brands under fire for wasteful packaging

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Lego is replacing its clear plastic bags with recyclable paper

If you buy a Lego set today, the toy bricks come packed in tiny numbered plastic bags. Every year, the toy manufacturer uses hundreds of…

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Holy Grail: New partnership to develop recycling sorting digital watermarks

 

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Pringles is testing a new can design after a recycling group dubbed it the ’number one recycling villain’

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Starbucks Releases Strawless Lids in US and Canada

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Nestlé invests in Closed Loop Leadership Fund

Swiss company Nestlé has announced that it is investing $30 million in the Closed Loop Leadership Fund, the private equity fund of New York City-based…

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