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TLMI Hands Out Environmental Awards

(Green Converting)

January 09, 2013, ... and developed a partnership with a manufacturer of engineered fuels allowing them to divert their matrix from landfills. The company became 100% landfill-free in their last fiscal year in addition to becoming ...

WS Packaging Introduces LinerLESS Labels

(Label/Tape News)

December 26, 2012, ... application-specific. Additional features of LinerLESS include: No added Gaylord container, transportation, landfill, warehouse or packaging costs associated with liner disposal and storage. That means ...

Sustainability | BASF, Mariners Debut Compostable Snack Bags

(Bag Pouch)

October 03, 2012, ... a natural place for BASF to introduce this new sustainable snack packaging to the American public. This season, the team is on track to divert 85% of its waste from landfills, up from just 12% in 2006. ...

Badger Plug Adds Locale for Recycling

(Green)

July 23, 2012, ... program is an excellent example of corporate leadership in reducing a company’s environmental impact by helping clients divert and reuse roll packaging components that would otherwise end up in a landfill. ...

PolyCello Invests in VISTAFLEX Flexographic Press from W&H

(News | New Products)

July 01, 2012, ... used as an alternative to lamination and allows pouches to be recycled as #2 plastic instead of ending up as garbage in landfills. To stay in step with customers' and their own awareness of the impact ...

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 ...

NPE Follow Up

(Tom’s Poly Ploys)

April 30, 2012, ... solutions to both consumer and industrial waste so as to minimize the size of the landfill stream and cost to the consumer.  Sophisticated technology allows these plants to increase the IV (intrinsic viscosity) ...

Ten Years of Success for FILMtech

(Flexpack)

April 24, 2012, ... business model. The company is committed to environmental stewardship and annually prevents as much as 500 tons of film, pallets, aluminum, and paperboard from entering landfills as part of its ongoing ...

Solar Farm Is Latest Green Initiative from Toray Plastics (America)

(Substrates)

December 11, 2011, ... Schloesser, president and CEO of Toray, told guests the company launched a major sustainability initiative in 2004, enabling it to achieve its goal of producing zero landfill waste, among many other significant ...

PCR Milked for Flex-Pack

(Flexpack)

August 21, 2011, ... that would reduce carbon emissions. Reduced landfill waste, cuts in energy use, less greenhouse gas emissions—it was a green trifecta, if we could do it.” A number of challenges presented themselves—all ...

Eco-One Plastic Additives To Be Used for Food Service Containers

(Green Converting)

July 27, 2011, ... and lids, and thin-wall food containers for subsequent disposable in a biologically active landfill environment,  in accordance with ASTM D5511. Letica also plans to utilize Eco-One to facilitate biodegradation ...

Experience Speaks: Myron Geiser

(Trends/Management)

June 30, 2011, ... today is commonplace tomorrow. What sustainability efforts has your company made? We are on the journey to Zero Waste, eliminating any waste from our operations going to a landfill. Significant progress ...

Methane Gas for Fuel Is Clean Solution

(Green Converting)

June 30, 2011, PAINESVILLE, OH | NOVA Chemicals is using landfill methane gas as a significant fuel source at its Painesville facility. The clean-energy landfill gas PAINESVILLE, OH | NOVA Chemicals is using landfill ...

Post Consumer Resin Gets New Life from Milk Jugs and Water Bottles

(Flexpack News)

May 18, 2011, ... emissions. Reduced landfill waste, cuts in energy use, less greenhouse gas emissions–it was a green trifecta, if we could do it.” A number of challenges presented themselves—all of which Hood’s Tyler ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Metallizing)

March 31, 2011, ... which can be recycled into new coverings to reduce material sent to landfills, is said to provide excellent chemical resistance, superior load-bearing, and better cut and abrasion resistance. Mitsubishi ...

AIMCAL Awards: Canisters Blow Away Competition

(Coating/Laminating)

March 17, 2011, ... found on converting and packaging machines. The elastomeric covering, which can be recycled into new coverings to reduce material sent to landfills, is said to provide excellent chemical resistance, superior ...

Green Converting: Is IML Sustainable?

(Label/Tape)

February 28, 2011, ... be recycled, incinerated, or buried in a landfill. Functionally, p-s labels can have good graphics, but they are subject to defects on the container, such as flagging, wrinkling, and puckering. Container ...

Flexible Packaging: Eco Innovation

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2011, ... the weight of solid waste being introduced into landfills. This package also wins a gold award for Technical Innovation. Packaging Excellence/Environmental & Sustainability Achievement Nordenia ...

Green Trends Prevail

(Flexpack)

February 28, 2011, ... mostly to landfill sites. However, the advantages of a biodegradable notion are rather ambiguous. First, the compostable cup moves the eco-responsibility from the manufacturer to the user, which means ...

Toray Plastics (America) To Build $2 million Solar Field

(Flexpack News)

January 04, 2011, ... KW h of electricity, and 10.1 billion BTUs annually. Operational innovations have also contributed to zero landfill waste. In addition, the company’s rigorous recycling program saves 285 tons of wood, ...