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While single-use plastic is being mostly avoided by environmentally conscious consumers, but such type of polymers still remain in circulation as food packaging items. The cellulose nano-material developed from raw cucumber waste by Professor Jayeeta Mitra and research scholar N Sai Prasanna at IIT Kharagpur has addressed this challenge of finding an environment-friendly substitute to food packaging materials, an institute statement said on Tuesday.

MPK Health Department director Azmi Muji said health inspectors advised traders to seal food packaging with adhesive tape or use thermal heat for plastic clam shells.

He said first-time offenders would be issued a warning and food items sealed with staples would be seized, while repeat offenders would be issued compounds.

Azmi said staples could pose a health risk if swallowed.

To meet industry needs for sustainable printing methods and environmentally friendly packaging production, Xeikon America has debuted TITON technology, a new toner formulation offering all the benefits of UV inks without the disadvantages.

Designed to be recycled sachets available to consumers in Colombia this month.

Amcor has taken another step towards its goal to provide more sustainable packaging solutions by producing the first designed to be recycled plastic packaging for powdered chocolate in Latin America.

Activists want to put an end to this and are calling for a right to repair. Now the European Union has decided to introduce a mandatory repair label for manufacturers on the packaging of electronic devices.

Fast-moving consumer goods company Procter & Gamble India turned ‘plastic waste neutral’ in fiscal 2022, after it collected, processed, and recycled over 19,000 MT of post-consumer plastic packaging waste that exceeded the amount of plastic packaging used in its products sold in a year.

Several large FMCG companies including Hindustan Unilever Ltd., Dabur India and now P&G India, have achieved this feat.

The team, led by professor Eran Sharon and Ido Levin of the Racah Institute of Physics, faculty of science, is pursuing commercialization of this manufacturing technique, which could reduce packaging and in turn carbon dioxide emissions for producers.

“Our shape-shifting pasta technology has the potential to transform the manufacturing, transportation and storage process,” Mr. Sharon said. “The potential of this technology is immense, and I look forward to seeing it outside of the lab ‘wowing’ consumers and providing a positive impact to consumer and business alike.”

3D Neopac, a global provider of tube packaging for cosmetics and health care, and part of the Hoffmann Neopac Group, has upgraded its on-site manufacturing technology with two additional flexo decoration stations, and will also introduce a new tube line for capacity extension.

The Indian paper industry seems to have erased the worst blot the pandemic had inflicted on it, driving the capacity utilisation down from 99 percent to 77 percent between FY19 and FY21, and begun scripting its resurgence to pre-COVID levels.