A partnership between Israel-based packaging films manufacturer Polysack and Bulgaria-based converter STS could help improve flexible packaging recycling. EPPM spoke with Polysack VP Marketing and Business Development Yair Gellis to find out how.
From the 1 April 2022, this new tax of £200 per metric tonne will apply to plastic packaging manufactured in, or imported into, the UK which contains less than 30 per cent recycled plastic.
Rob Coker spoke with Broadway Colours’ new Technical Manager Dr. Chandres Surti about the contribution masterbatch makes to the challenge of sustainable packaging.
Different products have unique requirements depending on their design and specifications. One such consideration is the casing or packaging requirements of the item.
Emma Samson, Marketing Communications Manager at Searious Business, discusses how reusable/refillable systems could be a way for supermarkets to draw customers back to physical shops, and away from online shopping.
In the following article for Women in Plastics, guest writer Emma-Jane Batey interviews Elena Ralchenko, a technologist at RETAL, a global plastic packaging solutions manufacturer, about her life, work and career.
Paul Empson, General Manager, Bakers Basco, outlines some of the key findings from its recent YouGov survey to explore what this means across the supply chain.
Stretch wraps or shrink films can prove inefficient in protecting the packages completely. As a result an increasing number of manufacturers are inclined towards automation and reducing labor work as much as possible.
In this guest blog Ian Jamie, Director Staeger Clear Packaging Limited, discusses the Prevented Ocean Plastic programme and demonstrates that by recycling we motivate and incentivise the cleaning up of our shores and oceans.
In this guest blog, Professor Edward Kosior, founder of sustainability experts, Nextek, reminds us that a genuine circular economy relies on simplifying our packaging and therefore our recycling streams, not adding to them with new complex categories
