Plastics

Multivac joins the cross-company initiative R-Cycle. The aim is to jointly drive forward the circular economy for plastic packaging on the basis of an open and globally applicable tracing standard.

As part of a wider communications campaign to raise recognition of the role that PET can play in helping Europe achieve a fully circular and carbon neutral economy, Petcore Europe is launching a 5-step policy roadmap.

This year’s Green Alley Award goes to the female founded startup traceless materials. The company was able to convince the jury with its biobased home-compostable alternative to single-use plastic and prevailed against five other finalists in a virtual pitch event on April 22nd.

For independent certification of its plastic recyclates, APK AG relies on the Flustix recycled certification.

Making plastic packaging genuinely recyclable hinges on clear guidance for the industry. With that goal in mind, RecyClass developed guidelines for designing coloured polystyrene (PS) containers.

Sustainability has become perhaps the most critical issue facing the plastics industry and is reaching an unprecedented level of global – public, corporate and governmental – awareness and concern. From …

New certification bodies have joined the Recycled Plastics Traceability Certification.

Plastics Recyclers Europe, the leading organization to define recyclability in Europe and to develop the RecyClass recyclability testing standards, has recognized Plastics Forming Enterprises (PFE) as an accredited laboratory.

The UK’s largest packaging compliance scheme, Valpak, has welcomed the opening of the government consultation on packaging extended producer responsibility and deposit return schemes, calling it a once in a generation chance to create a system designed for the world we live in today.

Lindner’s new 1500 model from the Micromat series was delivered to Chilean plastics recycler and circular economy pioneer Comberplast at the beginning of last year and has been successfully shredding old fishing nets and ropes collected from the Patagonian coasts for the past year.

India-based social enterprise, Plastics For Change has become one of the first companies in the world to be certified by the OBP certification.