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At the Elite Conference on Specialty Films and Flexible Packaging held in September 2017, the plastic industry threatened by the Indian government’s Plastic Waste...

Although shocking, the topic of plastic microbeads used in cosmetics is not new. With the recent talk of plastic in the oceans and its...

That’s the claim made in an exclusive report urging immediate action to step up waste management worldwide. It comes a year after David Attenborough’s BBC series, Blue Planet

The third installment of our series on Circular Economies focuses exclusively on The New Plastics Economy initiative. In this article, we will review and quote extensively from the

Worldwide, experts have established 7 elements as key to the development of circular economies. These elements are prioritizing regenerative resources, preserving and extending what’s already 

Last year at the PDIT Conference in Mumbai, packaging designer Rob Vermeulen ended his presentation with a photography of the plastic strewn beach at Juhu outside his hotel.

The last decade of the twentieth century has seen the emergence of a strong interest in the environmental impact associated with the products that surround us and by which we obtain the many services that civilization relies on. This interest has been accompanied by the development of methods for environmental assessment of products (1-9). Environmental assessment of products includes all the processes needed for the product to run through its life cycle — from the extraction of raw materials through production of the materials which are used in the manufacture of the product to the use of the product and its disposal

The country’s recycled PET industry continues to struggle with 'severely under-utilized' capacities, the Association of PET Recyclers (APR) Bharat has stated, adding that nearly...

Michelman has announced the introduction of two new bio-based, plastic-free coatings, Nuvita Life 4002 & Nuvita Life 4605, designed to deliver high barrier performance...

The Elite Global Summit, spanning two days, serves as a barometer of change. An annual gauge reflecting the state of the global and national...