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Tetra Pak plant in Spain is environmentally certified.

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July 31, 1996, ... Disposal - Waste disposal and recycling look set to offer increasing market potential in Southeast Asia, according to a study into waste management in eight area countries. The study was undertaken jointly ...

Supreme Court decisions will restrict certain lawsuits

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June 30, 1996, ... they have contributed to the "handling, storage, treatment, transportation, or disposal of any solid or hazardous waste which may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to human health and the ...

Canadian show highlights packaging industry up north

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June 30, 1996, ... in terminating an advance disposal fee on Canada's packaging in Florida and have helped defeat recycled content levies and material bans in several US states. "PAC has worked with such organizations as ...

MSC Specialty Films reaches success down to the core

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May 31, 1996, ... and conscious of the environment." One of the environmental issues surrounding cores is that many of them end up in the waste disposal stream, Dickerson explains. Phenolic resin-type cores don't readily ...

Pollution and politics: how green will the new year be?

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January 31, 1996, ... involving those on the outside who have a stake in the process, most likely before the end of 1996. Easing Disposal Obligations In December 1995 EPA proposed a rule that could substantially reduce ...

Pollution prevention makes good sense

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November 30, 1995, ... the generation of waste at the source - referred to in EPA parlance as "Pollution Prevention" - rather than focusing on waste disposal issues. Pollution prevention is not a new concept. In 1990 Congress ...

EC packaging waste directive drives European legislation.

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July 31, 1995, ... to municipal trash disposal. Under the DSD each package is assessed a fee paid by the participating company, and the monies raised are used to administer the DSD and pay for collection, sorting and ...

Consider film cores when analyzing costs.

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July 31, 1995, ... corrugated materials and improve product protection. These systems save money by reducing core unpacking time at the film manufacturer's plant and eliminating corrugated disposal costs. Often these packaging ...

Ceramic heater rollers an exciting new alternative.

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July 31, 1995, ...  The oil-heated system has been the workhorse of the converting industry for many years. Recently, however, concerns have risen about the disposal of carbonized oil. Through constant thermal cycling ...

Strong growth predicted for flex-pack industry

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March 31, 1995, ... for regulatory-compliance personnel, waste disposal, depreciation on equipment for pollution-control, and incremental energy for pollution abatement. Sixty percent of converters stated that during 1994, ...

Computerized dispensing provides ink management

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March 31, 1995, ... and disposal requires compliance with strict environmental regulations and record-keeping, which is expensive and a time-consuming distraction for management. "Reusing the returned colors was our preferred ...

Solid-waste proposals still considerable at state level.

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March 31, 1995, ...  The COPE research also addressed the advance-disposal fees (ADFs) in Florida, a revenue mechanism in effect there since October 1993 to provide funding for environmental programs. The statute requires ...

Shredders provide recycling advantages

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February 28, 1995, ... cores are said to save costly waste-disposal problems for companies using paper cores, including those involved in corrugating, papermaking, printing, and paper, film and foil converting. Advantages include: ...

Familiarity with change no surprise in this industry

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February 28, 1995, ... ed to recover the energy value. "We don't recycle our customers' materials, we study their waste disposal patterns to see how much they discard and its physical state. We then decide if we need to fin ...

State legislative action includes removal of 2 bans: 1994

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February 28, 1995, ... requiring 25% postconsumer recycled content on all packaging was removed prior to the bill's passage. * Florida - Although more than 10 bills were introduced that would have amended the state's advance-disposal ...

Waterjet slitting beneficial to this tissue converter.

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January 31, 1995, ... disposal. Flow's slitting system consists of an I-beam that spans the width of the paper web on the paper machine. Mounted trader the beam are multiple carriages, each equipped with two waterjet nozzles. ...