Amcor recently placed its first commercial order of certified-circular polymers, leveraging ExxonMobil's Exxtend™ technology for advanced recycling for use in packaging for the Australian and New Zealand market.
The joint venture company plans to build a mechanical recycling plant in Northern Germany to turn LLDPE and LDPE waste into quality recycled plastic materials for use in flexible packaging.
Sidel aims to facilitate a smooth and efficient market switch to recycled PET by establishing a ‘no fear’ one-stop shop for rPET- the RePETable™ offer.
TotalEnergies Corbion notes that the bioplastics are derived from sugarcane, an annually renewable resource, and are among the few types of bioplastics that are both biobased and biodegradable.
In this episode with Sarah Webber, Sustainable Packaging Engineer at Plastic Ingenuity, we discuss ways to support sustainability in snack food packaging.
Partnership will innovate for a future beyond fossils by developing PETG made from renewable, sustainably sourced forest biomass for use in a variety of packaging applications.
While there are many well-known routes to more sustainable packaging, these companies have developed unique and ingenious ways to keep packaging materials biodegradable or ease their recycling.
While responding to consumer and regulatory demands for more sustainable packaging is certainly one of the biggest challenges facing the industry, the good news is that there is no single solution but rather a plethora of routes to a circular economy.
Among the highlights of 2022, Trivium introduced various operational excellence programs aimed at reducing carbon and increasing the recycling of waste streams across its plants.