28 Sep 2023 --- Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) is urging the EU to consider a moratorium on incinerators to address waste treatment capacity and steer waste management toward a more environmentally sustainable path.

27 Sep 2023 --- The European Commission (EC) has adopted measures restricting microplastics intentionally added to products under the EU chemical legislation Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals... Read More

15 Sep 2023 --- Beiersdorf has announced that starting this and next year, all deodorant cans in the European assortment of Nivea, 8X4, Hidrofugal, and Hansaplast will contain at least 50% recycled aluminum and will weigh 11.6%... Read More

14 Sep 2023 --- The Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) initiative has launched a “Design Check” online assessment tool to guide flexible packaging designers, technologists, customers and suppliers. 

08 Sep 2023 --- This week in industry news, Univar Solutions acquired FloChem and Graphic Packaging International (GPI) announced it progressed in building a new US facility. Meanwhile, various clean energy projects were awarded... Read More

11 Jul 2023 --- SACMI’s product development and marketing manager Iacopo Bianconcini tells us how the company created tethered caps for beverage containers to comply with incoming EU regulations. SACMI has been working on its tethered caps for over five years, claiming that connected caps are a part of the solution to increasing circularity.

24 May 2023 --- At Interpack 2023, we talk to Greiner Packaging’s global head of marketing, Alexandria Mitterbaur, who discusses the company’s latest innovations and how EU policymakers can help businesses achieve environmental sustainability advances.

18 May 2023 --- Aimplas is investing in R&D of natural polymers for single-use packaging to fit the European legislative changes. Lorena Rodriguez Garrido, packaging group leader at Aimplas, flags standardization of protocols for reusable packaging legislation and material waste stream pose challenges for food packaging. Additionally, the proposed Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD) revisions will help resolve the industry’s greenwashing problem, she says.

15 May 2023 --- Arne Wiese, product manager of bottles and shapes and Sören Storbeck, product manager packaging division at KHS, talk about the company’s new Loop Lite bottle at Interpack 2023. KHS shows off a tool designed by the University of Hamburg, Germany, that compares different products and materials for bottle solutions. Wiese explains how the Loop Lite cuts production emissions by 36%. Wiese continues that the need for rPET can be mitigated by an increased collection of not only bottles but other packaging solutions across sectors.

24 Jan 2023 --- In this exclusive interview with PackagingInsights, Paul Foulkes-Arellano discusses how a paradigm shift in the packaging sector could be coming in the next decades. Harmful chemicals could be replaced by benign biological solutions across the value chain, he explains, and we look at the hurdles the industry will face to achieve these advances.