In this critical period of global consensus on sustainable development, the business community is exploring innovative paths to minimize the burden on the environment with unprecedented enthusiasm.
Tetra Pak, a leader in the packaging industry, has taken a landmark step forward by joining force...
Recently, TotalEnergies Corbion (TEC), a producer of polylactic acid (PLA), and Benvic, a French producer of modified plastics, announced a partnership aimed at expanding the use of Luminy® PLA-based plastics in durable goods applications in the automotive, healthcare, cosmetic packaging, home appli...
In December 2024, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) released the report The State of Bioplastics in Australia, which provides an overview of Australia's bioplastics system and analyzes the current state of bioplastics The report presents an overview of Australi...
TotalEnergies Corbion, a producer of polylactic acid (PLA), and Benvic, a French composites producer, are teaming up to expand the use of Luminy® PLA-based plastics in durable goods applications such as automotive, healthcare, cosmetic packaging, home appliances, and electrical and electronic produc...
SK Chihshin (SKGC) and Herion (China) announced that they have joined forces to promote sustainable packaging of health food products.
Headquartered in Weybridge, UK, Haleon's mission is to “put people at the center of every day's health”, serving consumers in more than 100 markets around the world. ...
Recently, a group of researchers at the University of Alabama stumbled upon a revolutionary way to recycle plastics.
This approach, which uses imidazolium to break down plastics, improves on traditional recycling processes and has the potential to produce higher quality recycled materials. This...
The U.S. plastics recycling and reclamation market faces three major challenges in 2025: trade uncertainty, new capacity additions, and weak consumption. And, Trump's tariff policy is likely to hit the U.S. recycled plastics ecosystem. In addition, Coca-Cola's downward revision of its packaging sust...
On December 19, 2024, the European Commission formally adopted a regulation banning the use of bisphenol A (BPA) and other bisphenol substances harmful to the reproductive and endocrine systems in food contact materials.
BPA is a common chemical raw material widely used in the production of pla...
Recently, Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) released its 2023-2024 Impact Report, and among the report's key metrics is that 50 percent of the plastic packaging its partners put on the market in 2023 will be reusable, recyclable, or compostable, an increase of 7 percent from 2022. The Ottawa, Ontario-...
On December 18, the EU's Circular Biobased Europe Joint Undertaking (CBE JU) published its annual work plan for 2025, outlining a new call for project proposals. The program allocates a budget of €165 million to support projects in the European circular bio-based industrial sector covering the 13 th...
