Sustainability
Sustainability
With the launch of the ‘Pacto Português para os Plásticos on 4 February, Portugal has become the latest European member to join the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s Plastics Pact.
Nylon 6/6 leader Ascend Performance Materials has acquired a pair of materials firms in Italy as it puts a new push on becoming more global as what its CEO calls one of its "pillars of growth." Houston-based Ascend purchased Poliblend and Esseti Plast GD from D'Ottavio Group. The deal includes a manufacturing facility in Mozzate, Italy. No purchase price was disclosed.
As the demand for sustainable materials continues to rise, even the major producers of conventional materials are starting to enter the arena.
Global plastic packaging manufacturer RETAL’s journey towards more sustainability took a huge leap forward two years ago, with the creation of its new sustainability department, led by Emmanuel Duffaut, who joined the company in early 2018.
Perrier has launched The Next Packaging Movement, an innovation program designed to broaden thinking and deliver actions on the topic of sustainability.
Bioplastics maker Danimer Scientific will supply thermoforming giant Genpak LLC with material to make biodegradable food containers.
Indorama's strategy through 2023 will focus on the "five pillars" of cost transformation, asset full potential, adjacency growth, recycling leadership and people. The global PET maker already has made two U.S. recycling deals since late 2018.
Label design and manufacturing company Avery Dennison will work with raw materials supplier Sabic to supply a label material made, for the first time, from recycled polypropylene.
Until now, researchers studying microplastic pollution in the world’s oceans have focused on land-based sources, such as discarded plastic bags or water bottles. Now, a new report appearing in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology, has linked microplastics in China’s Beibu Gulf with heavy fishing activities.
Worn Again Technologies of Nottingham, UK, has launched its pilot R&D facility for chemical recovery of PET from non-reusable textile and PET bottle and packaging waste.
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European plastics and rubber leaders kicked off K 2019 by acknowledging plastics' role in the waste problem and pledged the industry would do its part to find long-term solutions.
UK recycling and waste management company Viridor has reached an agreement with Unilever to supply the FMCG giant with a range of recycled plastics from its currently under-construction Avonmouth resource recovery centre near Bristol.