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World’s worst polluting countries could clean up ocean plastic by 77% by 2025

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

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The New Plastics Economy

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

Towards the New Plastic Economy

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 

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In India, 6,000 tons of plastic waste lies uncollected every day

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.

Plastics in Packaging — a Cradle to Grave approach

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
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Michelman’s new bio-based barrier coatings for paper packaging

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...
Elite

ElitePlus – the global summit of the film and flexible packaging industry

The Elite Global Summit, spanning two days, serves as a barometer of change. An annual gauge reflecting the state of the global and national...
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EIB backs Swedish innovation packaging company PulPac

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending €20 million (around 220 million Swedish kronor) to Swedish sustainable-packaging company PulPac to tackle global plastic pollution....
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Awfully Posh’s premium peanuts in fully recyclable paper wrapper

Independent premium snack brand Awfully Posh has re-launched its peanut range in a 100% recyclable wrapper made from paper, replacing conventional nut packaging which...
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Xampla’s plant polymer-coated food takeaway boxes from Huhtamaki

Just Eat Takeaway's platform in Germany, Lieferando, is expanding its range of sustainable takeaway packaging by partnering with Huhtamaki to offer new plastic-free and...