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Para Print Joins DuPont's Plate Recycling Progra

(News | New Products)

February 04, 2014, ... While industry estimates indicate that the overwhelming majority of overall plate waste is currently landfilled, DuPont has recovered more than 1 million pounds of materials within the past three years ...

Glenroy, Lube-Tech Introduce Stand-Up Oil Pouch

(Bag Pouch News)

October 23, 2013, ... reducing fossil fuel consumption and CO2 emission. Produces significantly less landfill waste through source reduction. A final important benefit that the flexible pouch provides is increased surface ...

Kendall Packaging Adds Solvent Reclaim Unit

(Coating/Laminating: Green)

August 19, 2013, ... importantly, we have sent much less waste into landfills." Kendall expects to further reduce solvent waste through plans to hire another ink technician, to allow the unit to run on all shifts. This new ...

Market Trends | Profile of North American Label Industry

(Label/Tape)

August 12, 2013, ... in the direction of waste collection, particularly for pressure-sensitive release liner and matrix waste, although in North America the majority of spent release liner still goes to landfill. Europe is ...

Peel, Reseal Lidding Film Developed for Lettuce Trays

(Flexpack)

July 14, 2013, ... pallet of preformed rigid lids, reducing landfill waste. Developed for multi-use applications, the new tamper-evident Peel and ReSeal Lidding Film is hermetically sealed and opens easily and reseals to ...

Flexible Packaging | Precision Color Graphics Breaks Course

(Bag Pouch)

June 18, 2013, ... Ingeo, which is free of petrochemicals commonly found in other plastics. Because there are no petrochemicals, Ecoterah packaging is safe for recycling, composting, and landfills. Ecoterah bags are FDA ...

Kingsway Printers Installs Mark Andy P3 Press

(Label/Tape News)

June 10, 2013, ... per color faster to make ready with its easy plate change, and the short web path and fast registration has reduced waste significantly.” With landfill costs increasing year over year, waste is a critical ...

Avery Dennison Matrix Recycling Tool Is Online

(Green Converting)

May 20, 2013, Interactive map offers a directory of locations of non-landfill operations or energy-from-waste facilities to help converters divert and process scrap   MENTOR, OH | Avery Dennison has launched a ...

Packaging Awards | AidPod Takes Top Spot as DuPont Celebrates Innovation

(Flexpack)

May 12, 2013, ... which ensures any sudden pressure changes are dissipated to avoid bursting the pack, so it arrives safely. Gold Winners Ink Producer, Recovery Company Collaborate on Zero Waste to Landfill Program ...

Flexible Packaging | Exopack Wins FPA’s Top Award for Kraft’s YES Pack

(Flexpack)

January 21, 2013, ... into a new product category dominated by rigid HDPE packaging. The FlexPak pouch provides for significant reductions in materials, energy consumption, emissions, transportation, and landfill waste. "Our ...

General Labels Increases Throughput 40%

(Label/Tape)

January 10, 2013, ... damage as possible. The addition of the more efficient Nilpeter SG3300 helped reduce changeover and make-ready waste going to landfill. Margins are tight these days and the used equipment market is ...

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. ...

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) ...

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 ...