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 ...
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.
It i...
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...
Italian eyewear brand Rudy Project continues its quest for sustainable development with the release of its new Deltabeat cycling sunglasses. the Deltabeat model's frame is composed of Rilsan Clear: a bio-based polyamide made from castor oil, developed by Arkema.
To make this bio-based material, the b...
Traditional polyhydroxy fatty acid esters (PHAs) are a large class of natural polymeric materials synthesized by microorganisms using renewable glucose and fatty acids as substrates, and over 150 different monomers have been identified.
PHA has biodegradability, biocompatibility, gas barrier pr...
Biodegradable medical materials have good compatibility with human tissues, can be absorbed or completely discharged from the body after degradation in the human body, and will not accumulate in the human internal tissues or organs, and have strong stability and easy processing simplicity, so they h...
Leading brands in Europe, Australia and the US are adopting Tipa's compostable packaging solutions globally. This is especially true for the food and fashion industries, as these are two key markets that use a lot of flexible packaging.
Tipa's biodegradable bags are TUV OK Home Compost certified fo...
Recently Cargill, a giant American company, officially launched the first product in its full range of plastic/polyol production processes - Biovero bio-based plasticizer.
The plasticizer can be used in a variety of product manufacturing applications such as flooring, apparel, wire, cable and plasti...
Plastic pollution is one of the most pressing environmental issues of our time. The accumulation of petroleum-based plastics is having a devastating impact on our environment, wildlife and human health. In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers at the Nara Institute of Science a...
