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22 Mar 2023
--- Sustainability Victoria, Fungi Solutions and No More Butts are partnering to train mushrooms to eat discarded cigarette butts to turn leftover plastic into new recyclable products. The organizations are located in Australia,...
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22 Mar 2023
--- Feminization is increasing in the packaging industry with more women stepping into technical roles, but gaps still remain regarding women’s treatment, says Laxmi Adrianna Haigh, the editorial lead at Circle Economy.In...
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22 Mar 2023
--- Berlin Packaging is highlighting its carbon-neutral spirit bottles at the International Food & Drink Event (IFE) Manufacturing this week in London (March 20-22). PackagingInsights spoke with Mark Crumpton, a specialist...
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Integrating connected packaging tech: Investments boom in fight against emissions and counterfeiting
22 Mar 2023
--- Despite the cost-of-living crisis and global economic uncertainty, investment in connected packaging experiences continues to rise, according to industry experts. No longer only a data collection tool, connected packaging is...
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21 Mar 2023
--- The fire in Brahmapuram garbage dump in Kerala, India, lays bare the country’s ineffectual waste management systems. According to reports, the massive fire that lasted for nearly two weeks resulted from thick layers of...
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21 Mar 2023
--- Switzerland-based digital can printing company NOMOQ is launching in the UK to capitalize on the growing beverage industry, which is projected to reach over £8 billion (US$9.8 million) in revenue in the UK at the end...
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21 Mar 2023
--- Tata Steel, one of the world’s largest steel producers and one of Europe’s leading steel re-processors, has announced its sponsorship of the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management’s (CIWM) Resources...
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21 Mar 2023
--- A hormone-disrupting cosmic chemical Bisphenol S (BPS), similar to Bisphenol A (BPA), can migrate from food packaging into common foods, Canadian scientists have flagged. While BPA is a toxic chemical commonly found in...
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20 Mar 2023
--- Inconsistent data access and a lack of supply chain transparency are the key barriers to gaining credibility on environmental sustainability claims, finds a new report by Smurfit Kappa. The findings, drawn from 440 senior...
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20 Mar 2023
--- Vinventions has secured a sales agreement with climate tech packaging business Packamama to expand the sale and distribution of Packamama’s eco-flat wine bottles in France. “By partnering with Packamama, we can...
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20 Mar 2023
--- The Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) aims to increase the amount of uncut fresh fruit and vegetables sold loose to 30% by the end of 2025 and aims to target 50% by the end of 2030. In 2021, the figure was 15%. The...
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20 Mar 2023
--- Syntegon will showcase its horizontal packaging solutions for cookies and bars at Interpack 2023. Its Innovative Intelligent Direct Handling system offers format flexibility for cookies and crackers using a high-speed bar...
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17 Mar 2023
--- The Circulate Initiative, a non-profit organization, has released the Plastics Circularity Investment Tracker, enabling decision-makers to understand investments into plastics circularity better. The tracker is dedicated to...
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17 Mar 2023
--- Current reporting systems for plastic waste traded globally underestimate the volumes, missing as much as 1.8 million metric tons of two types of hidden plastic waste – from textiles and plastics in waste paper bales...
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17 Mar 2023
--- KHS will present its portfolio of resource-conserving systems to promote circular economy at this year’s Interpack trade show, May 4-10 in Düsseldorf, Germany. KHS’ Innopack Kisters Nature MultiPack machine...
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17 Mar 2023
--- This week in industry news, Toshiba launched an industrial printer to simplify everyday packaging applications and Berry Global Group announced it is launching Typar DrainableWrap to protect multi-story structures....
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16 Mar 2023
--- Korea-based SK chemicals has made a US$100 million asset purchase agreement with Shuye, a Chinese company specializing in green materials to secure the “world’s first” mass production system for recycled...
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16 Mar 2023
--- Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy and its Consortium to Reinvent the Retail Bag have released a Playbook to provide single-use bag reduction strategies that can be implemented by any retailer...
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16 Mar 2023
--- TotalEnergies and Paprec have signed a long-term commercial agreement to develop a French value chain for advanced recycling of plastic film waste. The deal will secure the supply of materials from TotalEnergies’...
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16 Mar 2023
--- Scientists at the UK’s Natural History Museum have discovered a new disease in seabirds, which they believe is caused solely by plastic ingestion. Identified in a recent study, the researchers have named the condition...
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