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Biodegradable Films Today

(Flexpack)

April 29, 2005, ... method is available to recycle, separate, or divert them from disposal in landfills. PLC Probe Most of us love our creature comforts, including the many items that use flexible packaging substrates. ...

Converting Industry News, Part 2

(Magazine)

March 30, 2005, ... use landfill bans as an effective way to push recycling of various packaging and products. She also said states should band together and push the beverage industry to fund national education programs and ...

A King of Shrink Contender

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2005, ... for both converter and end-user alike. A p-s label converter accumulates a lot of matrix waste that’s typically landfilled at a high disposal cost. As well, for the end-user customer, the silicone-coated ...

Converting Industry News

(Magazine)

December 30, 2004, ... to Integrated Waste Management, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Recover Energy, and Retention in landfill. Visit plastics.ca/epic. Explore GOA in Miami Beach MIAMI BEACH, FL—Package printing gets its ...

Flex-Pack & Recycling in Japan

(Flexpack)

June 29, 2004, ... Facing significant shortages in available waste disposal capacity (the government estimated only 3.9 years of industrial landfill space remained), Japan sought to reduce waste and improve its material ...

Bio Break Down

(Flexpack)

March 30, 2004, ... discarded. Degradable packaging products can replace nearly every plastic used today and even can degrade gradually in some landfill conditions. They bridge the gap between non-biodegradable and the ...

Appleton Introduces Ream Wrap MoistureBloc; Delivers Moisture Barrier and Is 100% Recyclable/Repulpable

(News | New Products)

March 04, 2004, ... "but it's not and it often ends up as landfill waste. We use our coating capabilities to engineer MoistureBloc to provide cut-sheet producers and retailers a moisture-resistant barrier wrap with great shelf ...

Converter Panel Attracts Interest at Conference

(The Place)

September 30, 2003, ... David R. Roisum of Finishing Technologies, Inc., spoke on “Thinking Thin.” Noting that the markets driving converters to ever thinner webs to reduce material costs and waste going to the landfill provide ...

Tag & Label Industry Timeline

(Tapes)

August 27, 2003, ... Recycling Program established to provide label customers with an environmentally sound alternative to landfilling used liner. TLMI Technical Conference re-instituted after a five-year absence. 1994 ...

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 ...

Materials

(Magazine)

February 28, 2003, ... chains, making them susceptible to degradation through hydrolysis. Materials can be recycled, incinerated, or landfilled but are intended mainly for disposal by composting. Said to offer superior barrier ...

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 ...

Will We Soon be Eating the Film Along with the Food?

(Magazine)

November 30, 2001, ... movie theaters. Respectable consumers that dispose of packaging properly also contribute to the need for adequate recycling techniques and the accumulation in landfills of materials that can decompose ...

More New Products for the Converting Industry

(Magazine)

August 31, 2000, ... in outdoor, landfill, and compost conditions. Flexo UV Ink Cleaner Cuts Cleaning Time Citrus Safe Inc., Chicago, IL; 773/638-6900 Yellow Magic is described as an easy-to-use, environmentally friendly ...

Managing Your Way Through a ''Green'' Futur

(Magazine)

March 31, 2000, ... to infiltrate many new and untapped markets. At the same time, however, there is a rising tide of sentiment--fueled by environmental groups and growing concerns regarding rapidly decreasing landfill space--calling ...

FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less

(Magazine)

February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...

Saudi methanol producer plans expansion program

(Magazine)

November 30, 1996, ... are currently in operation for the treatment of industrial waste waters, which are rich in organic matter but low in solids. In the case of municipal solid waste, the space for new landfilling sites ...

Partnering launches future growth in laminations

(Magazine)

August 31, 1996, ... suppliers are adopting proactive positions regarding the environment, seeking to have minimum negative impact on air quality, landfill disposal, and the treatment of liquid waste. To move in the direction ...