policy & regulation
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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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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15 Mar 2023
--- Consumers are driving toward more environmentally and health-conscious lifestyles and food choices, leading to fresh fruit and vegetable packaging innovation, according to Innova Market Insights. We speak to ATS-Tanner and...
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15 Mar 2023
--- Further delaying the EU’s landmark reform on chemical laws may, in the long-term, threaten its industry’s competitiveness and resilience. This was the warning communicated by the European Environment Bureau (EEB)...
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15 Mar 2023
--- A leaked draft of the European Commission’s (EC) Green Claims legislation, designed to combat greenwashing, is expected to raise litigation against packaging companies using vague, impartial and misleading advertising....
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14 Mar 2023
--- A newly released study by the 5 Gyres Institute reveals the average number of plastic particles in the world’s oceans adds up to 170 trillion plastic particles, weighing two million metric tons. The study’s...
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13 Mar 2023
--- Environmental campaigners are calling for harsher measures against petrochemical corporations and their transport partners following the Ohio train derailment disaster, after a US Senate hearing last week in which Norfolk...
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13 Mar 2023
--- Hexcel Reinforcements UK has paid £30,000 (US$36,400) after failing to register as a packaging producer and take steps to recover and recycle its packaging waste under the Producer Responsibility Obligations (PRO)...
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09 Mar 2023
--- Kathy Illingworth, head of sustainability consulting at Ecoveritas, has written an article on how the packaging industry and its consumers buy into their destruction by over-consuming, creating environmentally damaging...
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Danimer VP: European Commission’s packaging waste revisions boost bioplastics but miss opportunities
07 Mar 2023
--- The European Commission’s (EC) proposed revisions to the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive (PPWD) promise growth opportunities for bioplastic suppliers by mandating that only industrially compostable packaging be...
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06 Mar 2023
--- Achieving improved sustainability in environmental and human health continues to be a major challenge for the flexible plastic packaging sector. Big industry players like Mondi are designing recyclable solutions to...
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02 Mar 2023
--- PulPac has announced Nippon Molding as its first licensee in Japan in a move that expands Dry Molded Fiber production to Asia. Nippon Molding has ordered its first PulPac Modula from PulPac machine partner TechTribe, a...
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01 Mar 2023
--- A court has ordered REDcycle’s parent company to be wound up while Coles and Woolworths are officially taking over the company’s stockpiled soft plastics after its failed recycling scheme. REDcycle was declared...
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27 Feb 2023
--- Colombia has launched a plastics pact to tackle the environmental impacts of packaging waste and support international work developing a circular economy for plastics. The Colombia Plastics Pact was developed and launched...
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27 Feb 2023
--- The train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, US evidences that the plastics and petrochemical expansion necessitates infrastructure buildout and safer transportation of hazardous materials supplying to the packaging...
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24 Feb 2023
--- As London and Brussels intensify discussions regarding the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol, PackagingInsights looks at how cross border trade and supply between the European Union (EU) and the UK could transform for...
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24 Feb 2023
--- Just Zero has published model legislation to aid government and policymakers in improving waste management infrastructure in the US. The non-profit advocates for implementing a packaging reduction and recycling act, deposit...
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23 Feb 2023
--- A study published in Science Advances has revealed the top ten countries emitting plastic pollutants in the waters around them. Louis Lugas, graphic designer, used data from the research paper by Lourens Meijer, director of...
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23 Feb 2023
--- Nations worldwide are dividing and conflicting over which direction to take the UN’s global plastic pollution treaty. EU and African countries are pushing for plastic reduction, while the US and Saudi Arabia want the...
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23 Feb 2023
--- Circularity Scotland has announced £22 million (US$26.5 million) of cash flow support measures to help Scotland’s brewers, distillers, importers and drinks manufacturers prepare for the introduction of...
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