On January 18, 2022, the European Commission launched a public consultation on a policy framework for bio-based, biodegradable and compostable plastics.
In the European Commission's question and answer on SUPD in May last year, when asked whether biodegradable plastics were banned, it was made ...
Recently, the U.S. Plastics Pact published its "Questionable and Unnecessary Materials List," which lists 11 packaging-related products and materials that currently "cannot be reused, recycled, or composted on a large scale" in the United States and "are not expected to rema...
On December 16-17, 2021, the European Commission held a seminar on the revision of the FCM regulation on recycled plastics with the Joint Researchcenter (JRC) and other institutions. As an invited representative, Guangzhou Customs Technology Center (IQTC) participated in the whole seminar and techni...
Fort Collins, Colorado, January 11, 2022 - VistaTek LLC, a leading custom injection molder based in Stillwater, Minnesota, has developed a plant-based planter that is one of the first plantable and compostable planters on the garden market, thus providing significant sustainability benefits. Le...
To achieve its environmental goal of moving toward zero-load, Sony is working to gradually reduce or stop using plastic packaging on small products by 2025. Its constantly improving headphone packaging solutions won the Japan Packaging Design Association Award and the Electronics Packaging Award at ...
Recently, Veolia China released news that L'Oréal and Veolia have partnered to offer new product packaging made of recycled plastic worldwide.
Veolia announced that it is supplying L'Oréal with high-quality recycled plastics for its global product packaging, reducing the carbon footprint of cos...
A recent study published in Nature Communications found that microplastics found on top of the French Pyrenees may have traveled 4,500 kilometers across continents and oceans in the troposphere.
The troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere, and a finding suggests that these particles c...
The packaging industry As part of the review of Ireland's Circular Economy Bill 2021, the All Party Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action has proposed clearer targets for the packaging industry and a greater focus on reduction and reuse, which may reflect the policies already in place....
The implementation of the EU SUP (single use plastic) directive banned the use of single-use plastics in shopping bags, disposable tableware and other areas, and did not make special treatment of biodegradable plastics. The implementation of the SUP Directive, European countries have different ...
On January 10, local time, Thailand's Pollution Control Department accelerated the implementation of plastic waste management under the Plastic Waste Management Program 2018-2030 issued by the Cabinet to carry out a waste reduction and separation pilot in government agencies nationwide. It also...
