On December 19, British supermarket chain Iceland (iceland) announced a partnership with Mondi, a global leader in paper packaging, to improve the environmental sustainability of its product packaging. Mondi's functional barrier paper will reduce the supermarket's plastic packaging use by 80 pe...
Suntory Group (Suntory) recently announced that it has manufactured a prototype PET bottle made from 100% plant-based materials.
This follows the company's commitment to use 100% sustainable PET plastic bottles for all product packaging globally by 2030 and to remove petroleum-based plastics fr...
Amazon created 599 million pounds (contracted 271,700 tons) of plastic waste in 2020, including air pillows, bubble bags and plastic-lined paper envelopes, and a third of it (23.5 million pounds, contracted 10,700 tons) went into the ocean, with only 9 percent recycled, according to a report by envi...
Although biodegradable, disposable electronic devices such as environmental sensors are now available, the batteries that power these devices still pose an ecological problem.
To this end, scientists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have developed a paper-based biodegradabl...
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has released a report assessing the sustainability of agricultural plastic products, which recommends replacing non-biodegradable conventional polymers with biodegradable bio-based polymers.
We recognize the environmental benefit...
As plastic products are thrown away indiscriminately, it will destroy the land environment and cause serious pollution. Therefore, for plastic products, domestic and foreign have always maintained the "plastic control" attitude. Plastic management has long been an important initiative...
Bio-based Energy & Materials has learned that HM Revenue & Customs has announced that from April 1, 2022, a plastic packaging tax (PPT) of £200 per tonne (approximately RMB 1,700 per tonne) will be imposed on plastic packaging manufactured or imported into the UK in quantities greater than 1...
Because of the fear of marine life accidentally eating garbage to cause ecological crisis, how to deal with the "Pacific garbage belt", in the past years are many scholars research topics. However, a new study in Nature Communications found that a variety of coastal species have begun...
A new series of interviews with UK shoppers reveals a clear lack of understanding of environmentally friendly packaging. The vox pop study, conducted by the Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association (BBIA), provides insights into public perceptions of bioplastic and compostable packaging an...
Parkside Flexibles, a UK-based specialty packaging processor known for producing sustainable flexible packaging, recently announced the launch of a compostable alternative to plastic packaging for its bulk tea, a packaging solution that uses Futamura's compostable bio-based paper and metalized Natur...
