3:22 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
Circular economy
U.S. Plastics Pact brings together leading brands and materials manufacturers to seek solutions to “Problematic and Unnecessary” Materials
Today the U.S. Plastics Pact released its Problematic and Unnecessary Materials List, a first step to accelerating progress toward a circular economy for plastic packaging in the United States. The list identifies 11 items that are not currently reusable, recyclable, or compostable ...
1:46 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
Impact
Plastic Bank stops 2 billion plastic bottles from entering the ocean, partnership with SC Johnson accounts for half of the total
Plastic Bank®, a social enterprise revolutionizing the global supply chain for recycled ocean-bound plastic, announced it has stopped 2 billion plastic bottles from entering the ocean. Its global partnership with SC Johnson, an industry-leading manufacturer of household consumer ...
1:17 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
Membership
Dow joins Cyclyx as consortium’s newest member
Cyclyx International, a consortium-based plastic feedstock management company with a mission to increase the recycling rate of plastic from 10% to 90%, has announced that Dow has joined the Cyclyx consortium.
3:10 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
Sustainability
Sumitomo (SHI) Demag: Connectors at their limits – into the future with green intelligence
Gerd Liebig, CEO of Sumitomo (SHI) Demag Plastics Machinery GmbH, outlined how high-quality connector production can be designed cost-effectively and sustainably in the future in a talk held during the LAPP trade press event. He drew a bridge from the trends in customer requirements ...
1:31 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
Recycling
Biffa secures multi-million-pound recycled plastic deal
Plastic recycling pioneer Biffa has signed a multi-million-pound a year partnership with one of the UK’s leading bottle manufacturers. Esterform Packaging, producer of plastic bottles for carbonated drinks and alcohol to squash and cooking oil, will ...
1:19 min
Sustainability & Circular Economy
Joint-venture
4G Recycling and AE Global to form social-business enterprise, Ocean Recovery Group
4G Recycling, a multigenerational recycling and waste-management family owned business, and AE Global, a multinational end-to-end packaging solutions company, announced the joint-venture formation of the Ocean Recovery Group (ORG) – a social-business enterprise that leverages over ...