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INEOS Styrolution and COEXPAN claim food contact standards across all dairy formats using 100% mechanically recycled polystyrene

Polystyrene, the material of choice for the dairy industry, now proven to be the most sustainable material as well. Mechanically recycled Styrolution PS ECO 440FC MR100 meets requirements for use in food contact polystyrene applications. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: INEOS Styrolution

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CEFLEX launches EPR ‘Criteria for Circularity’ in flexible packaging

Extended User Responsibility (EPR) schemes play a substantial role in the collection, sorting and recycling of post-consumer products. The Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX) project, a collaboration of over 180 European companies, associations and organisations, believes these schemes are well positioned to be a key enabler and coordinator of the circular economy. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: Ceflex

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Designing recyclable bio-based coatings for paper packaging

Paper packaging is increasingly being used as a more sustainable packaging option. To ensure that any products packaged in paper are as well protected as possible, the paper must be coated to meet certain requirements. However, these coatings in turn affect the recyclability of the paper ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: Fraunhofer IVV

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Scientists are developing edible food packaging

Scientists from the Faculty of AgriSciences at Mendel University in Brno focused on the packaging that can be eaten together with food ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: Mendel University

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Improved properties and new packaging applications in a circular economy

The market is experiencing an increased demand for recycled plastics by the industry that uses or manufactures packaging ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: ITENE

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ITENE achieves to convert PET/PE multilayer tray waste into a compostable plastic by using microorganisms

In the VALQUIBIO project, funded by IVACE, delamination processes of multilayer structures and depolymerisation of PET layers have been developed to improve the recovery of packaging waste. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: ITENE

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VTT develops transparent cellulose film to replace traditional plastic in food packaging

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is piloting a new transparent cellulose film that reduces microplastic. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: VTT

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UPM Raflatac launches the world’s first certified label material to fight ocean bound plastic pollution

UPM Raflatac is the first company in the world to invest in Ocean Bound Plastics (OBP) waste as label raw material in their new Ocean Action labels. The Ocean Action labels are made from ocean bound plastic using mass balance approach. Ocean bound plastic is abandoned plastic waste recovered from areas up to 50km inland from waterways, defined as “at risk of ending up in the ocean” by OBPCert. The new innovative label material is made possible by close collaboration with multiple partners in the product’s value chain. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: UPM Raflatac

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A new ecopack Arcade Beauty for Elgydium

Arcade Beauty responded to Pierre Fabre’s request for an organic and eco-friendly toothpaste delivery system. A first on the oral care market, the group developed an exclusive 100ml 3D pouch, named Ecopack, produced with mono-materials, making it recycle ready. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: Arcade Beauty

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New Law on Waste and Contaminated Soil for a Circular Economy: How we help the packaging sector to adapt

In the packaging sector we were expectant in recent times about the imminent approval of the Law on Waste and Contaminated Soils for a Circular Economy. Finally, this text, which regulates waste management in our country, was published in the Official State Gazette and came into force on 10 April. ( Read more... )

CATEGORY: Circular Economy BRAND: ITENE