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The trials were held at Tomra’s recycling facility in Germany in September, testing the efficiency of Nextek’s technology in differentiating food packaging from non-food packaging. The separation of food and non-food packaging is necessary for meeting the requirements of the UK and EU Food Standards Authorities.

Nextloopp says identifying and sorting any number of pack variants from bleach bottles to milk bottles in any plastic type is a world-first, capable of transforming the way society recycles the growing volume of single-use food packaging waste.

Making the plastics stream become more circular is critical to reduce the use of plastics. It has been particularly challenging to find ways to put post-consumer plastic waste to good use. Walki is introducing Lamibel®Recycled, a non-consumer material that uses up to 70 % post-consumer plastic waste. Typically, non-food packaging products only has between 30 and 50% recycled material, mainly from industrial processes.

ILPRA presentsFoodpack Hyper, the new line of heat sealing machines for packaging, designed to satisfy high production and suitable for the packaging of a wide range of products (fruit and vegetables, meat, dairy products, fish, ready meals and much more).

The synthesis of over sixty years of know-how in the field of food packaging, the new line is extremely fast, able to work up to 25 cycles per minute in the gas / flush version.

Toyo Printing Inks, Inc., a member of the Japan-based Toyo Ink Group, recently brought to market the LP-9000 Toyo Life Premium Food LO/LM, a new series of sheetfed offset inks with low odor and low migration characteristics. 

Engineered and manufactured in accordance with EuPIA (European Printing Ink Association) guidelines and the GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), the LP-9000 LO/LM product is suitable for use in printed packages for food, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and other sensitive applications. 

The Belgian fresh produce cooperative custom made the tool in order to better understand the impact of available packaging and help boost its sustainability credentials. The tool enables users to assess a range of factors involved in packaging, including materials, source, production method, use of inputs such as water and energy, and the impact of transport.

“We have seen with one customer using the bins vs poly boxes a staggering reduction in CO2 emissions of 78% over a year” commented Andrew Kirk, MD.

The brand announced that it has completely moved its rice range to 100% paper packing, “specifically designed to be good for the planet” whilst maintaining durability to protect the rice.

The revamps is not only done in their New rice pudding SKU but to the four previous "store cupboard" Rice range as well.

According to Swiss Recycling, the signatories of the ‘Closing cycles for plastic packaging and beverage cartons’ Pact have committed to applying circularity principles and signaled the importance of establishing a circular economy for packaging in Switzerland by 2030.

Patrik Geisselhardt, managing director of Swiss Recycling, comments: “The patch is an important sign that a nationally coordinated solution is coming, and we are pleased that so many organizations are pulling together.”

The New Jersey-headquartered full-service supplier of beauty and personal care products has launched a new suite of turnkey products with formulations that are clean, inclusive, cruelty-free and multi-tasking, and with packaging that is made from natural, renewable ingredients that are responsibly sourced and created from the recycled farm waste.

Comprised of recycled content and recyclable after use, Kite said this tubing expresses great sustainability through these qualities and the fact that only the necessary amount of material is used, making it an eco-friendly alternative to plastic tubing.

It lays flat on the roll, granting great space conservation in a warehouse and is near instantaneously assembled by merely folding along the scored corners. The corrugated cardboard will then hold its shape to offer strong-wearing protection to each side of the object inside.