End of Life and Recovery

New research from the renewable materials company Stora Enso sheds light on the importance of packaging in achieving greater food systems sustainability. The report entitled “Food packaging for better food systems” identifies 13 impact opportunities for the food packaging value chain, powered by innovation an...

To incentivise the collection of empty paper bags after they have been used on building sites, ready to be taken off a recycling plant for making recycled paper for manufacturing bags for other products as part of a proper circular economy process. This is, in short, the "Make the Difference, One Bag After Another" project promoted by...

Südpack, a German manufacturer of high-performance films and packaging materials for the food, non-food and medical goods industries, devotes more than 50% of its investments to technologies that help to improve sustainability. 30% of its turnover is...

On 22nd April, on the occasion of Earth Day, Acqua Lete and the AC Milan Football Club announced the launch of an innovative environmental sustainability project in collaboration with Coripet, a leading consortium in the collection and...

For many years Tetra Pak has been working in partnership with a number of companies committed to environmental sustainability and the development of a circular economy, such as Filoalfa, an Italian company belonging to the...

An international team of experts, led by researchers from the Institute of Subtropical and Mediterranean Horticulture 'La Mayora' (IHSM-CSIC-UMA), in Malaga, and the Institute of Material Sciences of Seville (ICMS-CSIC-US), located in the Parque Científico Tecnológico Cartuja de Sevilla, has developed tomato pomace resins...

When it comes to recycling, Italy is one of the most virtuous countries. In fact, according to the Sustainability Report published by Conai (the Italian consortium of packaging) last November, in 2021 the recycling and...

Airnov Healthcare Packaging, one of the global leaders in controlled atmosphere packaging, has announced a key breakthrough in its sustainability journey after its plant in Romorantin, France, obtained the International Sustainability and...

TotalEnergies and Ecolab have partnered to launch plastic packaging incorporating recycled material which will contribute to promoting circularity in heavy-use packaging markets. This launch is the culmination of a close collaboration to introduce post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastic into primary packaging for highly concentrated cleaning products, starting with...

Neste (it creates solutions for combating climate change and accelerating a shift to a circular economy), Borealis (one of the world’s leading providers of advanced and sustainable polyolefin solutions), Uponor (one of the leading international providers of solutions that move water for buildings and infrastructure) and Wastewise (a private circular economy growth company that offers a new sustainable chemical recycling solution for plastic wastes that cannot be mechanically recycled) have successfully produced pipes made of cross-linked polyethylene (PEX) which was...