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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 ...

Sun Chemical Recognized by FTA for Sustainability Excellence

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May 13, 2024, ... compostable packaging, less waste ends up in landfills, demonstrating how the ink technology leads to more sustainable end-of-life scenarios.  At the core of SunUno Solimax AP's development is Sun Chemical' ...

Creating a Circular Packaging Value Chain: How collaboration with suppliers helps converters meet brand owner demands

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April 28, 2024, ... that ends up in landfills, and consumer preferences, retailer requirements, and legislation are all driving brands to reexamine their packaging design and practices to support a circular economy. Unfortunately, ...

Recyclability & Circularity Consumers Support Sustainable Brand Packaging

(Print)

April 08, 2024, ... of material that ends up in landfills. The push towards recyclability and sustainability is evident in consumer preferences. Studies from management consultancy firm, McKinsey1, show that more than 60 ...

Building a Circular Economy for Stretch Film

(News | New Products)

April 05, 2024, ... companies to downgauge their stretch film by using high performing films at thinner gauges. This reduces the amount of plastic used which ultimately gets sent to landfills. To help determine the right ...

Pressure on Paper Packaging Converters

(Flexpack)

March 24, 2024, ... while simultaneously reducing plastic usage by up to 50 percent. This leads to the usage of fewer raw materials and a reduction of waste in landfills. Labels that Don’t Compromise the Brand In addition, ...

GoGo squeeZ® Celebrates Pouch Recycling Milestone With Donation to Thank Teachers

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October 15, 2023, ... Donates to Classrooms in Need GoGo squeeZ®, a leading innovator in portable snacks, announced that it has officially kept more than 10 million squeezable snack plastic pouches and caps out of landfills ...

Flexo Wash to Unveil New Ink Cartridge Cleaner at Printing United Expo 2023

(News | New Products)

October 09, 2023, ... and technology is going to revolutionize offset cartridge printing. Now thousands of used cartridges will not head to landfills when they are perfectly good for reuse; they can be cleaned and refilled, ...

Emerging Trends Steering Label Making Towards Sustainability

(News | New Products)

September 24, 2023, ... is paper-based. However, each year hundreds of thousands of tons of paper liners sit in landfills and add unnecessary waste to the environment. This is due to the difficulty separating the silicone coating ...

How Brands Can Appeal to Generation Z with Sustainable Packaging Solutions

(Bag Pouch)

August 30, 2023, ... reclosable packaging composed of fully recyclable or compostable materials. Recyclable packaging is an ever-popular choice because it aims to reduce the amount of waste in landfills by reusing materials. ...

Sustainable Liquids Packaging Done Right

(Flexpack)

June 28, 2023, ... natural resources; Conserving energy; Reducing greenhouse emissions; Reducing pollution; and Reducing the flow of waste to landfills. One key benefit of source reduction is that it boosts the ...

Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Invests $10 Million in Closed Loop Partners’ Circular Plastics Fund, Accelerating More Capital Toward Innovation and Infrastructure for Plastics Recovery and Recycl

(News | New Products)

May 30, 2023, ... from landfills and the natural environment. Increasing plastics recovery, alongside material reduction solutions, scalable reuse systems and innovative new materials, can help meet an addressable market ...

‘Sustainability in Action’ announcement at LiftEx Regional in Sydney

(News | New Products)

May 10, 2023, ... Most of this dumping of construction waste is unnecessary – it has been demonstrated that simply by sorting waste, at least half of it could be diverted from landfills. Large volumes of waste also increase ...

Sustainability and Productivity – a Must for Today’s Labels

(Flexpack)

February 19, 2023, ... Label and Packaging Materials Sustainability has evolved from being a trend to how companies run their business in the label and packaging industry over the last few years. In addition to landfills beginning ...

The Path to Sustainable Growth

(News | New Products)

February 07, 2023, ... biodegrade, it ends up contaminating the environment, resulting in polluted oceans and overflowing landfills. With heightened awareness of the ongoing plastic crisis and regulations with regard to single-use ...

The “5R” Framework

(Coating/Laminating)

December 11, 2022, ... 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 5 to 6 percent — or about 2 million tons, according to the World Economic ...

For Composite Packaging Recycling, the Future is Now

(Flexpack)

December 04, 2022, ... currently the vast majority of multi-material composite packaging materials end up in landfills or incineration centers. Encouragingly, though, novel recycling methods such as delamination recycling ...

Recycling is Broken

(News | New Products)

November 25, 2022, ... produced globally is actually recycled, with about 50 percent going to landfills; 19 percent incinerated, which produces toxic chemicals damaging to human health; and 22 percent ending up in the water ...

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

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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 ...