Several global plastic packaging makers are part of a statement from more than 70 businesses and financial institutions urging a new global plastics treaty that would reduce virgin plastics production and try to cut its link to fossil fuels.
Tetra Pak has become the first carton packaging player in the food and beverage industry to launch a cap using certified recycled polymers.
Interest is growing in recycled content mandates for plastic packaging. But what makes for an effective law? A webinar took a look.
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL) has kicked off the new year with the announcement of a new acquisition.
In Slovakia, a new deposit return system for cans and plastic bottles kicked off on Saturday, January 1, 2022.
Scientists from Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University, working in collaboration with a team from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in the USA, have successfully developed a new ‘smart’ food packaging material that is both biodegradable and anti-microbial.
Swedish company UniCup Scandinavia AB has won a 2022 WorldStar Packaging Award in the category Packaging Materials and Components for its new LipLid cup lid. T
Guala Closures, a manufacturer of special closures for spirits and wines, has been granted ISCC Plus accreditation, for its Spinetta Marengo plant.
Global packaging solutions provider Alpla Group and joint venture partner Glatfelter Corporation, a leading supplier of engineered materials, have partnered with the Swedish start-up Blue Ocean Closures (BOC), the companies have announced.
A young US-headquartered company has devised technology that is based on the idea of creating a non-stick surface by eliminating friction
Green-tech company Bockatech, the inventor of the innovative EcoCore manufacturing technology platform for sustainable packaging, has received an investment from Borealis, a leading Austria-headquartered provider of polyolefin solutions, base chemicals and fertilisers.
Consumers are becoming more concerned with brands’ sustainability efforts, particularly when it comes to packaging waste.
RecyClass, the European cross-industry initiative to advance and harmonise plastic packaging recyclability, has expanded its online Recyclass tool with new guidelines to enable the self-assessment of the recyclability of expanded polystyrene (EPS) packaging.
As New Jersey's legislative session winds down, an industry lobbyist expects lawmakers to pass what would be one of the toughest U.S. laws mandating recycled content in plastic packaging.