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Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

(Flexpack)

June 29, 2020, ... group, or product, this term refers to the amount of greenhouse gasses emitted into the air as a result of various activities. Most relevant to the food packaging industry would be activities like the ...

Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

(Flexography)

April 22, 2020, ... group, or product, this term refers to the amount of greenhouse gasses emitted into the air as a result of various activities. Most relevant to the food packaging industry would be activities like the ...

Assessing the Sustainability Benefits: Flexible Stand-Up Pouches for Laundry Detergent Pods — A LCA Case Study

(Case Studies)

May 01, 2019, ... injection molding process for the rigid PET container. The rigid PET container’s water footprint is +660 percent larger than the flexible stand-up pouch. When considering the greenhouse gas emissions ...

Assessing the Sustainability Benefits: Flexible Drink Pouch — A LCA Case Study

(Case Studies)

May 01, 2019, ... amounts of water during manufacturing as part of the cooling process. The flexible drink pouch has lower overall greenhouse gas emissions because of its light weight and overall efficient material and ...

Assessing the Sustainability Benefits: Flexible Stand-Up Pouches for Motor Oil — A LCA Case Study

(News | New Products)

April 16, 2019, ... rigid HDPE bottle has a greenhouse gas emission about 1.5X that of the flexible stand-up pouch with fitment. Even though rigid HDPE bottles are recycled at a rate of 34.4 percent, 2X as much material still ...

Avery Dennison Recognized on Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies List

(News | New Products)

February 24, 2019, ... greenhouse gas emissions and human rights, workplace diversity and labor relations. “We continue to make solid progress toward our 2025 sustainability goals, with increased urgency to address plastic ...

Flexible Stand-up Bags for Cat Litter: Discovering the Sustainability Benefits

(Bag Pouch)

August 31, 2018, ... its weight advantage, the flexible stand-up bag comes ahead of the other packaging types in fossil fuel consumption. Greenhouse Gas Emissions Comparison When looking at the greenhouse gas emissions ...

TLMI Reviews PROP 65 Changes

(Label/Tape)

May 27, 2018, ... EPA to review the greenhouse gas criteria and Clean Air Act requirements as part of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). Pruitt has requested that the economic impacts and benefits of the ...

Shrink Packaging for Beer Brand Provides Multiple Benefits

(News | New Products)

April 30, 2018, ... National Brewers Association, expects to see 46 percent energy savings and 51 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions based on an environmental impact assessment by Allied Development. “Moving ...

Hyde Increases Commitment to Clean Energy

(News | New Products)

February 19, 2018, ... sources), will provide energy equal to that used by 28 homes, the company says, adding the total yearly generation savings would replace greenhouse gas emissions from 55 cars, while sequestering carbon ...

Sticking With It | Going Green

(Label/Tape)

December 03, 2017, ... label adhesives. Over the past many months, climate change and global warming have been the topic of many news stories. Scientific evidence continues to mount that supports claims that greenhouse gases ...

AWA Reviews Sessions on Release Liners

(Label/Tape)

November 25, 2017, ... UV cure solutions. Silicones, he summarized, are net contributors to sustainability initiatives by enabling reductions in greenhouse gas emissions at all stages of production and use; improved energy efficiency; ...

Corrugated Report Shows Environmental Progress

(Carton Box)

July 02, 2017, ... of a 1-kilogram industry-average corrugated product manufactured in 2014 on seven environmental impact indicators: global warming potential (greenhouse gas emissions), eutrophication, acidification, smog, ...

Two Sides NA Environmental Report Is Positive

(News | New Products)

June 24, 2017, The organization reports the North American pulp and paper industry has gone a long way in reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions CHICAGO, IL | Two Sides North America says its goal is to ...

Gallus Commits to Energy Efficiency

(News | New Products)

March 08, 2017, The company is working hard to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save energy, protecting the climate and reducing costs at the same time ST. GALLEN, SWITZERLAND | Gallus Ferd. Rüesch AG reports ...

Green Converting | Nestlé Pulls No Punches on Bioplastics

(Flexpack)

January 09, 2017, ... tool that takes into account the entire life cycle of a product, uses a representative set of relevant indicators—i.e., greenhouse gas emissions, water consumption, non-renewable energy and minerals, impacts ...

UPM Raflatac and Cielo e Terra Study Wine Bottles

(Label/Tape)

April 20, 2016, ... after the investments, we can identify reductions in greenhouse gas emissions of 10 percent and water consumption of 24 percent during the life cycle of a wine bottle." The LCA demonstrated that glass ...

Dow Wins UPM Raflatac Label Life Award

(Label/Tape)

March 27, 2016, ... other players in the industry bring sustainability into the innovation process. The tool helps evaluate new projects through different facets of sustainability: social, economic, organizational, greenhouse ...

ULS Report Issues Study on Packaging Efficiency

(News | New Products)

January 23, 2016, ... and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Plastics, especially in the form of films and flexible pouches, play important roles in significantly reducing discards per unit of product delivered. • Recovery ...

Domtar Wins Environmental Award

(News | New Products)

November 11, 2015, ... where their paper comes from and track the gate-to-gate environmental impact of their paper purchase across five categories: fiber, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, water, renewable energy, and waste. Earlier ...