The essential briefing on materials, markets, regulation, packaging, recycling, and the people moving the plastics industry forward.
While many cities and eight states have banned single-use plastics, bags and other polyethylene packaging still clog landfills and pollute rivers and oceans. One major problem with recycling polyethylene, which makes up one-third of all plastic production worldwide, is economic: Recycled bags end up in low-value products, such as decks and construction material, providing little […]
The move is in response to ongoing environmental concerns regarding plastic and the calls from designers, brand owners, OEMs and converters for solutions for a diverse range of applications. Recently introduced to Plastribution’s customers in an exclusive preview, the portfolio is based on material options from around 20 suppliers, many of which are novel. 7 […]
THE QUIDI VIDI GUT is a tiny natural laboratory. A thin slice of the northern Atlantic Ocean cuts between cliffs to make a marine appendix at the edge of St. John’s, the capital city of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. Fish harvesters gut their catch in tiny, brightly colored wooden shacks called stages, perched half on land, […]
Researchers from the University of Liverpool have secured £965,000 worth of funding awarded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) for a project that aims to make the plastic packaging for products such as shampoo bottles more sustainable. The funding makes up part of the UKRI’s £8 million investment into sustainable packaging under its Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging […]
In this exclusive Q&A with Bright Green Plastics, editor Grace Nolan talks to Managing Director Steve Spencer about the company’s recent £750,000 investment into the development of its new plastics sorting plant in Castleford. Find out if the new plant has lived up to expectations, what’s next and how the company is on a mission […]
High barrier protection against oxygen and moisture for use in automated fill lines Ideal for use with oxygen and moisture absorbers Standard bottle neck SP-400 December 17, 2020 – Airnov Healthcare Packaging is introducing its new brand, OXYNOVTM. Applicable for High Protective Barrier Bottles, OXYNOV offers protection for pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and probiotic products. The OXYNOV […]
CINCINNATI — The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS) in collaboration with LyondellBasell today announced the use of the equivalent of 71,000 plastic retail bags to pave 2,885 square yards of the LyondellBasell Cincinnati Technology Center parking lot in Ohio using recycled polyethylene (rPE). This was the first installation of the New End Market Opportunities (NEMO) for Film Asphalt Project which added over 4,000 pounds of rPE into […]
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