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This year marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Global Bioplastics Award, the prestigious annual honour recognising the achievements in the bioplastics over the past year.

Finland-based TactoTek Oy has been named the recipient of Frost & Sullivan’s 2021 European Structural Electronics New Product Innovation Award.

Companies know the importance of being sustainable in today's business work, but developing strategy and goals just doesn't happen.

Mechanical recyclers are increasingly exploring the use of mixed-polyolefin waste as a feedstock amid record high recycled polyethylene (R-PE) and recycled polypropylene (R-PP) pellet prices, and structural shortages of mono-sorted R-PE and R-PP waste.

"No single solution" is sufficient to address the United States' contribution to ocean plastics, which is "outsized compared with other nations," a new report from the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine says.

Since 2018, when Amut and Erema joined forces on the design and launch of an inline sheet extrusion line able to produce food-contact-grade thermoforming sheet from recycled PET bottle flakes in a direct process, the line, which combines the systems of both companies, has been sold to packaging customers around the world.

Marelli, a molder and supplier of a range of auto parts including lighting, says all of the energy used at its plants will either be created from renewable sources or offset by carbon credits.

Helsinki-based Stora Enso has developed a new alternative to the plastic wrap or polystyrene foams used today as cushioning and insulating materials in packaging, the company announced.

The new owners — packaging industry veterans Brooke Maltun and Mark Strachan — have renamed the company OMV Technologies LLC and moved its headquarters to Florida while continuing OMV's manufacturing operations in Italy.

In a further push to develop new sustainable plastics solutions for its Trucircle portfolio, Sabic has announced a new collaboration with Malaysia-based plastic recycling company HHI to create the first certified circular polymers produced through the advanced recycling of recovered mixed and used ocean-bound plastic.