Sustainability
Sustainability
By 2025, 100% of Henkel's packaging will be recyclable or reusable and the company will reduce fossil-based virgin plastics by 50 percent in its consumer goods packaging.
Marc Hillmyer's work has moved the industry closer to a circular economy.
The two European firms aim to have enhanced materials available in the first half of the year.
In the wake of China's ban on recyclable plastics, a new industry coalition wants to try to make polypropylene into the next PET and HDPE in the curbside recycling system. It's ambitious project — PP has some of the lowest recycling rates now in plastics packaging and there are economic headwinds — but industry officials say they see opportunities.
The new Circular Economy Plan, unveiled by the European Commission on 11 March, is one of the main building blocks of the European Green Deal, Europe's new agenda for sustainable growth.
A young recycling company called Mr. Green Africa is bringing social, economic and environmental benefits to the region in which it operates.
DS Smith Plc's Plastics division has now been officially acquired by Liquibox Corp., a portfolio company of Olympus Partners, a private equity firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, USA.
Cleaning up ocean plastic and environmental pollution will take a lot more than the $1-$1.5 billion pledged from the industry-funded Alliance to End Plastic Waste, probably something in the range of $150 billion.
Materials producer Arkema has announced a new climate plan, aligned with the Paris Agreement.
Machine manufacturer Windmöller & Hölscher, specialised in the flexible packaging market, is pushing ahead on the development of a range of sustainably designed sample flexible packaging products, with the aim of showing the market the wide range of options available in the field of sustainability and how these can be ‘efficiently produced using both cast film and blown film processes on W&H lines’, explained Dr. Lennart Ederleh, head of technical sales blown film at W&H.
Chemical company Versalis is launching the aptly named Hoop project, aimed at the development of a new technology to chemically recycle plastic waste, the company has announced.
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.