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UN Plastic Pollution Treaty: Industry giants send “powerful signal” ahead of Environment Assembly

17 Jan 2022 --- Over 70 financial institutions and businesses have released a statement urging an ambitious international, legally binding global treaty on plastics pollution ahead of the UN Environment Assembly (UNEA) 5.2, held in Nairobi, Kenya, this year. The signatories, already supporters of WWF’s previous report “The Business Case for a UN Treaty on Plastic...

Special Report

Natural Branding: Plastic bans on fruit & veg shine light on laser-marking tech

13 Jan 2022 --- Industry appetite for Natural Branding – a technology that lasers markings onto the surface of some fruits and vegetables – is gaining traction amid proliferating plastic packaging bans. Notably, France recently banned retailers from selling 30 different fruits and vegetables wrapped in plastic packaging. Spain is destined to impose a similar law in 2023. Such...

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Liar, liar, plastic on fire: Turkish recyclers discovered arsoning facilities to destroy waste

10 Jan 2022 --- Recycling companies throughout Turkey are intentionally burning down their facilities as a means of cheaply destroying hazardous packaging waste, according to Microplastic Research Group (MRG), a team of scientists who study pollution and waste crime in the country. Dr. Sedat Gündoğdu, chief scientist of the group, tells PackagingInsights his team has tracked...

Technical Paper

Krones Whitepaper: Tethered caps and use of recyclate – the situation in the EU

Beverage packaging is about to undergo a visible change: In the future, the caps of non-returnable plastic bottles must be designed so that they remain connected to the bottle after opening. Krones has published a whitepaper for anyone who wishes to find out more about tethered caps and the EU directive.

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Chalmers University: Could plastic-degrading enzymes be the answer to pollution?

Chalmers University in Sweden is investigating how plastic’s “explosive” production over the last 70 years has allowed sufficient evolutionary time for microbes to begin degrading the material naturally. Aleksej Zelezniak, associate professor in Systems Biology at Chalmers, takes us inside his research and offers some advice on how best to combat plastic pollution.

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Eco-Conscious Consumer Trends

In this edition you will learn more about:

• “Shared Planet” Leads 2022’s Top Ten Trends, Sustainable Certification in Premium Chocolate, Flavors Poised to Go “Beyond Taste” in New Year
• Applying Vanilla in Alt-Dairy, F&B Packaging Combine Communication with Art, Next-Gen Infant Formula, Opinion Edge
• EFSA Rethinks Claims for Red Yeast Rice, Foods to Uplift and Wind Down, Disrupting Quorum Sensing to Support Immunity
• View from the Top: IFF, Sebastien Guery, VP for Health

Event Review

2021 in review: Top 20 most read stories

As 2021 draws to a close, we look back at the most popular stories of the year, as determined by our readers. Plastic waste escape routes dominated reader appetite, notably circular plastics economy solutions, fiber-based innovation and bioplastics proliferation. However, readers were also hot on greenwashing concerns,...

07 Dec 2021 - 03 Jan 2022 Global

Expert Views

How can we achieve the circular economy of plastics recycling?

How can we achieve the circular economy of plastics recycling?By Professor Edward Kosior, Nextek and Nextloopp founder. In this Expert View, leading recycling expert Professor Edward Kosior, founder of Nextek and Nextloopp, shines a light on the circular plastics economy and what needs to be done to enhance recycling rates. Moreover, he explains how recycled plastics can be a weapon against...