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Glenroy Inc. Formally Announces Company Sustainability Initiative

(News | New Products)

July 16, 2020, ... 30 percent, and kept more than 3 million pounds of material out of landfills annually. “The team at Glenroy is committed to developing products that are better for the environment and producing them ...

Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

(Flexpack)

June 29, 2020, ... packaging is in fact the lightest form of packaging, accounting for just a small percentage of landfill waste. Despite these and many other benefits that food packaging provides, consumer perception of ...

Plastics, Packaging and the Environment

(Flexography)

April 22, 2020, ... is in fact the lightest form of packaging, accounting for just a small percentage of landfill waste. Despite these and many other benefits that food packaging provides, consumer perception of plastics, ...

PFFC’s Companies to Watch

(Flexpack)

April 09, 2020, ... much packaging as needed is produced, less is thrown away only to end up in a landfill. “Additionally, we offer recyclable and PCR based films and are engaged in R&D around compostable films as well. ...

Diamond Packaging Wins Three Awards in 76th Annual Paperboard Packaging Competition

(Print)

November 24, 2019, ... entries were designed utilizing recyclable paperboards and manufactured using 100 percent clean, renewable wind energy, in a Zero Waste to Landfill (ZWL) facility. Diamond won an Excellence Award in ...

Driving Flexible Packaging

(Flexpack)

November 07, 2019, ... and homes annually.  This can be harmful for the environment being that food makes up to 20 percent of landfill weight, it is the single largest municipal waste source, and the methane released by food ...

Sustainable Winding: Reduce, Reuse, Rewind

(Web Handling)

July 21, 2019, ... COO at Norkol, Inc. Reducing waste is a common goal of paper converters. The less damaged paper manufacturers send to a landfill, the more product is shipped off to customers instead by utilizing ...

Suck it up Paper

(News | New Products)

July 07, 2019, ... a day from landfills and waterways—that's 100 million straws each year.  Starbucks was another who professed it would ban disposable plastic straws at all its stores by 2020 last July. And following its ...

Colbert Packaging Celebrates 60th Anniversary Milestone

(News | New Products)

June 10, 2019, ... Colbert has invested in renewable energy credits in the form of wind energy and has initiated a zero manufacturing waste to landfill program. With extensive R&D capabilities and a solid reputation for ...

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

(Case Studies)

May 01, 2019, ... as the amount of packaging material going to the landfill when compared to other packaging formats for the same products. The use of single-dose pods has become a popular method for packaging laundry ...

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

(Case Studies)

May 01, 2019, ... as the amount of packaging material going to the landfill when compared to other packaging formats for the same products. Beverages are sold in a wide variety of packaging formats based on their volume, ...

Packaging and Labeling Sustainability is a Must for the Industry

(Label/Tape)

April 21, 2019, ... will require 20 percent of petroleum production within the next 35 years -- up from 6 percent in 2014. More than 80 percent of that plastic ends up in landfills, incinerators or sensitive environments. ...

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

(News | New Products)

April 16, 2019, ... usage, water usage, product-to-package ratio, as well as the amount of packaging material going to the landfill when compared to other packaging formats for the same products. Motor oil has traditionally ...

FPA Launches New Consumer Website

(News | New Products)

March 10, 2019, ... landfills. In the U.S., approximately 50% of flexible packaging can easily be recycled through in-store drop-off programs. Single layer polyethylene (PE) films can be recycled, but often must be dropped ...

Toray Plastics (America) Joins the Sustainable Packaging Coalition

(News | New Products)

March 05, 2019, ... in 2004. The program involves operating one of the larger solar farms in Rhode Island and two co-generation plants, zero landfill, waste recycling and energy and water conservation. The company is also ...

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

(Bag Pouch)

August 31, 2018, ... as well as the amount of material going to the landfill when compared to other package formats. Over the past couple of months, several of case studies were explored in detail, and in continuation, the ...

Nestlé Announces Environmental Goal

(News | New Products)

April 24, 2018, ... Its vision is that none of its packaging, including plastics, ends up in landfill or as litter. Nestlé believes that there is an urgent need to minimize the impact of packaging on the environment. Nestlé ...

Smart Planet Technologies Starts Paper Cup Recycling Program

(Trends/Management)

April 18, 2018, ... Technologies, it has been estimated that more than 15 billion paper coffee cups get diverted to US landfills each year. Traditional plastic-coated paper cups are typically too difficult for paper recyclers ...

Flexible Packaging | PPT Earns Top Prize in FPA Awards

(Flexpack)

March 05, 2018, ... for arenas and stadiums to help sports teams, venues, and leagues achieve the next level of landfill waste diversion by eliminating a pesky food scrap contaminant. The chief benefit of the new bag is that ...

FSEA Partners with Channeled Resources

(News | New Products)

December 26, 2017, ... has found that any type of trucking/shipping costs involved with the foil waste will be similar to landfill costs, or even less, depending on the location,” says Calvin Frost, CRG. “And, best of all, it ...