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Green Converting: Landfill Diversion

(Green Converting)

August 16, 2011, ... to limit the amount of garbage going into landfills every year. For converters and manufacturers, it is not as simple. Steve Mojo, executive director of the New York-based Biodegradable Products Inst. ...

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

(Green Converting)

July 27, 2011, ... aesthetics or productivity. The prominence of persistent plastic waste in landfills is one of the driving aspects behind our push to find more sustainable options for our customers and the markets we serve.” ...

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

(Flexpack News)

May 18, 2011, ... in the future with a buried layer of PCR to allow use in food contact applications, employing its newer proprietary blown film lines. At present, says Harji, the plant is sending minimal scrap to landfills. ...

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 ...

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 Converting: Recycled Roll Coverings

(Web Handling)

November 30, 2010, ... mention how good it feels to be adding to the sustainability movement by eliminating and delaying the amount of material ending up in landfills. Putting the waste in landfills costs money, too. Currently, ...

Foodservice Packaging To Grow

(Trends/Management)

August 31, 2010, ... less space in landfills and consumes less material than rigid alternatives. Pouches are expected to post the fastest gains of all flexible foodservice packaging types. Bags and sacks will remain the ...

Turning Corrugated into Firelogs

(Carton Box)

March 31, 2010, ... the only national brand safe to use in woodstoves, chimineas, campfires, and as a cooking fuel. To date, the company has diverted more than 100 million lb of wax from landfills, reducing the grocery trade' ...

Eco Fiction

(Substrates)

August 31, 2009, ... biodegrading. Nothing actually will happen for a long time in most of today's landfills. It doesn't matter which definition of biodegradability you reference — whether the product or material has to break ...

WHAT'S NEW PRODUCT

(New Products)

August 31, 2009, ... in conventional landfills. Rate and extent of biodegradability is said to depend on the size and shape of comprised articles. Suitable for applications such as cast and blown film, cast sheet, and thermoforming. ...

Renewable Bioplastic Biodegrades

(News Eclips)

August 10, 2009, ... unconventional landfills. Rate and extent of biodegradability is said to depend on the size and shape of comprised articles. Suitable for applications such as cast and blown film, cast sheet, and thermoforming. ...

Paper Calculator Is Updated

(News Clips Archive)

June 30, 2009, Washington, DC | The Environmental Defense Fund has updated the underlying data of the Paper Calculator, available at www.papercalculator.org. This interactive Washington, DC | The Environmental Defense ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter: April 2009

(Narrow Web)

March 31, 2009, ... developed a focused team that uses Enterprise Lean Sigma (ELS) tools to reduce waste sent to landfills. Xeikon, Wilmington, MA, has entered into a joint referral partnership program with Prism, Itasca, ...

Narrow Web & Label Reporter: Avery's Green Plan

(Narrow Web)

March 22, 2009, ... Lean Sigma (ELS) tools and methods to support its goal to reduce waste sent to landfills in North America by 10% when compared to 2007 levels. MACtac, Stow, OH, formalizes the Application Development ...

Conserve Energy

(Archive)

January 31, 2009, ... 2007, p24). Other converting facilities reportedly have partnered with local community landfills to obtain low cost, waste methane gas, which they use to power their boiler systems, thereby reducing greenhouse ...

Weight Reduction

(Archive)

August 31, 2008, ... results in reduced shipping costs for both CEI and its customers, and less waste is being generated during the converting process and ending up in landfills, says Nowak. But that is just one part of ...

Dirge for a Plastic Bag?

(Editorial)

July 31, 2008, ... their undying support for the latest “Zeitgeist” movement. As you indicated, we investigated 50-year-old landfills, tried to ban plastic bags, wanted to outlaw aluminum cans, tried to outlaw the six-pack ...

Recycling Program Aimed at Customers

(Green Converting)

April 30, 2008, ... custom plastic sheet, is combining two environmental concepts — sustainability and recycling — to keep product out of landfills and return salable product to customers. In the “zero landfill” policy, GOEX ...

Riding the Technology Wave

(Label/Tape)

April 30, 2008, ... on pushed Europeans to find less wasteful (to reduce energy costs), more environmentally friendly products (because of fewer landfills per capita as well as more congested land space generating greater ...