Recycling

Automotive and Mobility, Compounding, Injection Molding

Recycling

Stephen Moore

Rowasol cooperates with KraussMaffei Extrusion, OPM Mechatronic and ColVisTec at K 2019 to demonstrate the system.

Decemberists performing "Everything Is Awful"

Everything is awful: Greenpeace comes to the realization that no alternative materials to plastics are eco-friendly

October 10, 2019

Sustainability

Packaging, Recycling, Materials

Mono-material barrier film solution promises to take on aluminum

In a recent report from Greenpeace, “Throwing Away the Future: How Companies Still Have it Wrong on Plastic Pollution Solutions,” the organization concludes that not only is plastic bad for the environment, every other “alternative” material is, as well.

October 09, 2019

Sustainability, Recycling

Stephen Moore

O2X from Singapore’s Aegis is a hybrid solution that can be applied with a rotogravure printing roller.

Unilever commits to ambitious plastics-reduction program

October 08, 2019

Sustainability, Recycling, Materials

Flexible packaging supplier talks sustainability, circularity

By pledging to halve its use of virgin plastics by 2025, Unilever (London) claims to be the first major global consumer goods company to commit to an absolute plastics reduction across its portfolio.

October 08, 2019

Sustainability, Recycling, Extrusion: Film & Sheet, Materials

Rick Lingle

How award-winning converter TC Transcontinental (Montreal) is pushing the boundaries of what flexible packaging can do within a circular economy.

Sustainability in the medical space? It’s complicated

October 08, 2019

Medical

Sustainability, Recycling, Extrusion: Pipe & Profile, Injection Molding, Materials

Norbert Sparrow

An article in National Geographic asks if medical care can exist without plastics. “Unlike refusing a straw at a restaurant, it’s difficult to cut down on plastic while strapped unconscious to an operating table,” writes Sarah Gibbens. Would you even want to, though?

What’s new in packaging at K 2019

October 07, 2019

K 2019: Setting the record straight on oxo-biodegradable plastics

Sustainability, Recycling, Thermoforming, Blow Molding, Injection Molding, Materials

Rick Lingle

Makers of injection machinery, blowmolders and other machinery for packaging as well as plastic packaging suppliers will present their leading-edge solutions that address sustainability and other issues during K 2019 in Düsseldorf, Germany, this month. Here’s a preview of selected products.

Time-lapse video showing decomposition of oxo-biodegradable plastic bag

October 07, 2019

Sustainability

Packaging, Recycling, Consumer Products, Materials

Speaking of sustainability, what have Coke and Pepsi been up to lately?

Studies show that oxo-biodegradable plastics have a valid role to play in the circular economy, but some are adamantly tuning out the science.

October 06, 2019

Sustainability, Recycling, Consumer Products

Michigan State program trumpets global salvation through bioplastics

Since leaving the Plastics Industry Association because of so-called philosophical differences, both Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have launched new efforts to solve the problems that the plastics industry apparently created for them.

Engineering Training Services Inc. poster

October 05, 2019

Sustainability

Packaging, Recycling, Materials