Tag: recycle
Europe: 100M Tetra Rex bio-based packages in 2016
Tetra Pak expects to deliver more than 100 million packs of Tetra Rex bio-based to customers during 2016, reflecting strong demand for the package...
Americas: Sugar cane paperboard debuts
The Packaging Solutions Group of Veritiv Corporation introduces the Earth Pact Sugar Cane Paperboard, a material made from 100% pure sugar cane bagasse, an...
Europe: Report outlines circular future for plastics
Applying circular economy principles to global plastic packaging flows could transform the plastics economy and drastically reduce negative externalities such as leakage into oceans,...
Europe: Recycling company ABKA acquires Systec Mixed Plastics
CABKA has taken over Systec Mixed Plastics GmbH (SMP), located in Genthin, Germany, since the beginning of January 2016.
The company now operates under the...
Americas: Cascades installs equipment in Canadian plant
Recycling company Cascades is investing US$26.4 million at its Norampac corrugated board conversion plant in Drummondville, Canada to install a new corrugator, thus increasing...
Asia Pacific: Fonterra’s brand releases recyclable campaign for yogurt pouches
Fonterra Brands New Zealand (FBNZ) is launching New Zealand’s first recycling program for yogurt pouches.
The Fonterra Pouch Brigade enables consumers to collect yogurt pouches...
Europe: German companies develop technology to produce M/NFC, recyclable packaging material
German-based eco-businesses Zelfo Technology and Upgrading have carried out trial production of up-cycled wheat straw-based Micro and Nano Fibrillated Cellulose (M/NFC) packaging solution.
The material...
Europe: Region recycles most steel packaging in 2013, says association
21The Association of European Producers of Steel for Packaging (APEAL) has confirmed 2013 as the best year ever for steel packaging recycling in Europe.
An...
Europe: Two Tetra Pak packages win WorldStar Award
Two Tetra Pak products, each designed specifically to reduce environmental impact, have won prestigious WorldStar packaging Awards this year.
Tetra Top with Separable Top and...
Americas: Cargill’s US meat processing facility becomes landfill-free
Cargill's meat processing facility in Hazleton, Pa., US now sends nothing to the landfills.
The 225,000 sq ft plant sits on a 40-acre site, employs...