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Minimizing Waste in Extrusion Coating

(Coating/Laminating)

December 08, 2024, ... minimizes trim widths and optimizes material usage. Establishing recycling programs for clean trim waste reduces landfill contributions and potentially generates secondary revenue streams through recycling ...

AirTrim to Feature Portable AirFlex® Continuous Trim Waste Removal Systems in Printing United Booth #B910

(News | New Products)

August 22, 2023, ... trim waste volume, saving landfill disposal costs and reducing the amount of removal trips. AirFlex® units are made in the USA, ship with short lead-times, offer affordable purchase prices, and rental ...

The “5R” Framework: An Approach Designed to Reduce Packaging Waste

(News | New Products)

September 20, 2022, ... tons of packaging waste was produced in 2018 with 30.4 million tons of that going to landfills. Of special concern is plastic waste which only has recycling rates in 2021 of five to six percent — or about ...

AirFlex Portable Trim Waste & Dust Containment System Featured in Converters Expo South Booth #61

(News | New Products)

November 23, 2021, ... anywhere on the plant floor. With components proven in hundreds of facilities worldwide, the trim cutter reduces trim waste volume by up to 75 percent, saving landfill disposal costs and reducing the ...

Charter NEX Joins the Alliance to End Plastic Waste

(News | New Products)

November 23, 2019, ... evaluated by EcoVadis − a trusted provided of sustainability ratings and intelligence. In 2019, Charter NEX achieved the milestone of diverting more than a million pounds of waste to landfill and plans ...

L’Oréal and Avery Dennison Collaborate to Eliminate Label Waste

(News | New Products)

August 05, 2018, ... landfills.  Avery Dennison’s liner recycling program, supports the company’s sustainability goal to help customers reduce waste from its products. This liner recycling program will help brands divert ...

Landfill & Incineration Alternative for Non-Recyclables

(News | New Products)

August 28, 2017, Channeled Resources Group offers non-recyclable generators an alternative to landfilling at competitive cost. Non-recyclables are processed into fluff. CHICAGO, IL | Channeled Resources Group ...

Avery Dennison Matrix Waste Directory Now Includes Canada

(Label/Tape)

February 09, 2014, The landfill-free matrix waste directory is an online, searchable resource that now features 20 processors in Canada   MENTOR, OH | Avery Dennison has added Canadian listings for matrix waste disposal ...

DuPont Awards | Packaging that Reduces Food Waste Captures Top Prize

(Carton Box)

May 09, 2012, ... markdowns/waste than store-wrapped meats, less landfill waste and reduces packaging materials up to 75%, compared to other case-ready formats, thereby improving sustainability.   Gold winners Pepperidge ...

Green Converting: Landfill Diversion

(Green Converting)

August 16, 2011, ... to limit the amount of garbage going into landfills every year. For converters and manufacturers, it is not as simple. Steve Mojo, executive director of the New York-based Biodegradable Products Inst. ...

Flexible Packaging & Waste Disposal Laws: A US Perspective

(Flexpack)

July 31, 2003, ... concerns in California. Beginning in the late 1970s and continuing into the early 1990s, concerns about the availability of landfill space led to widespread state and local regulation governing the ...

Release Liners: A Worldwide Special Report: Release LinersPackaging Waste?

(Archive)

October 31, 2002, ... that they simply go into landfill. European Legislation Europe is ahead of other global regions in addressing this issue and has taken the route of legislation. In 1994 the European Union (EU) issued ...

Waste Not: Waste Management in Europe's Packaging and Label Industrie

(Magazine)

June 30, 2002, ... reducing the amount of landfill and incineration without energy recovery (two major global environmental concerns), and secondly at driving down the levels of waste in the packaging industry as a whole. ...

The European Directive on Packaging and Packaging waste

(Magazine)

April 30, 2002, ... to establish a set of rules for waste management in the European packaging industry. The reduction of landfill, and parallel increase in re-use, recycling, and incineration, were the prime aims of the ...

Interest in waste-disposal technologies at all time high

(Magazine)

May 31, 1995, ... area where European technologies have the advantage is in the design and operation of waste-to-energy technologies. "Most European countries ran out of landfill space years ago," Doug Augenthaller, a ...

CT Manufacturer Leads Global Green Packaging Industry

(Coating/Laminating)

April 10, 2025, ...  Mort explains that any of the PACT Thermo ShieldTM paper-based solutions can be re-used multiple times and safely discarded and recycled in landfills when maximum usage is achieved Lastly, Mort discusses ...

Aligning North American Design Guidance for Plastic Packaging

(News | New Products)

March 17, 2025, ... be recycled by the system so that Québec can reduce waste to landfills and realize a circular economy for plastics. The APR Design® Guide is the leading resource in North America for plastics packaging ...

Challenges, Solutions and Future Paperboard Packaging Trends

(Coating/Laminating)

February 15, 2025, ... materials like these present significant recycling challenges. The coating can be difficult to separate from the paperboard in the repulping process, so often, the packaging ends up in landfills after ...

Building a Circular Economy for Stretch Film

(Flexpack)

November 10, 2024, ... at thinner gauges. This reduces the amount of plastic used which ultimately gets sent to landfills. To help determine the right film for each wrapped pallet, organizations can leverage a load containment ...

Merging Innovation and Sustainability in Flexible Packaging

(Bag Pouch)

November 03, 2024, ... a great deal of environmental damage because excess inventory is frequently disposed of in landfills. Nonetheless, the use of space-saving solutions is being encouraged by recent developments and improved ...