Innovators in Turbulent Times Recognised at Plastics Industry Awards 2021

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

"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.

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.

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.

Berry Global has announced that its Heanor site in Derbyshire has become one of the first in the UK to achieve the European Certificate for Plastics Recycling (EUCertPlast).

Following an audit carried out by ENAC at the AIMPLAS laboratories, Aimplas is now officially also certified to include a series of tests to ensure that exports of plastic waste comply with the Basel Convention.

More than 9 in 10 Italian adults would rather their clothing deliveries be sent in compostable bags

A smouldering fire broke out last Saturday at the Af-Color plant in the industrial area Scheid 27, Niederzissen in Germany, the company has reported.

Asahi Kasei has stepped up its sustainability efforts with plans to produce 'circular' solution-polymerised styrene butadiene rubber (SSBR) by early 2022.