South Korea plans to reduce plastic waste by reducing the production of plastic products and increasing the recycling rate, the Ministry of Environment announced on Dec. 24. By 2025, South Korea plans to reduce plastic waste by 20% and increase the recycling rate of used plastics to 70% from th...
January 1, 2022 France banned the sale of fruits and vegetables in plastic packaging weighing less than 1.5 kg, involving 30 types of fruits and vegetables, including bananas, pears, lemons, bell peppers, cucumbers and carrots. In 2026, the ban will be extended to all fruits and vegetables.
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The draft decree to transpose the EU Single-Use Plastics Directive 2019/904 (SUPD) into Italian law and the accompanying report were previously published in Italy, and on September 22 the Italian government submitted the draft to the European Commission for review, and the decree will be officially ...
Smithers' latest long-term forecast analyzes four key trends that indicate how the packaging industry will evolve.
According to Smithers' research in The Future of Packaging: Long-Term Strategic Forecasts to 2028, the global packaging market will grow at an annual rate of nearly 3% between 2018...
WWF's ReSource: Plastic program reports that key members of the program have increased the use of recycled plastics from 7.8 percent in 2018 to 9.6 percent in 2020, with 124,000 tons of new recycled material used, or 273 million pounds. That's 273 million pounds.
These members include The Coca-...
Western Australia will phase out nine types of single-use plastic products.
From January 1, 2022, Western Australia will ban single-use plastic bowls, cold and hot food cups, plates, cutlery, stirrers, straws, expanded polystyrene food containers, thick plastic bags and helium balloon release d...
After being passed by the Senate on Christmas Eve, Italy's Budget Law 2022 was passed by the Chamber of Deputies with a vote of confidence (355 votes in favor, 45 against).
With the completion of the parliamentary procedure, the plastic tax and the sugar tax were postponed until 2023, as these ...
