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Earlier the deadline was set for September 30, 2022. 

In case of food grains use of 100 per cent jute is mandatory and for sugar it is 20 per cent. 

In June last year, the Ministry of Textile has mandated jute bag through a notification, which has been now extended to December 2022.  

The decision to extend mandatory jute packaging deadline is likely to stocks like Gloster, Cheviot and Ludlow Jute, all listed companies.   

The iconic snack you know and love from America's #1 Selling Peanut Brand has a new, improved look and utilizes less plastic! The makers of the PLANTERS^® snack nut brand are introducing peanut-shaped, flavor-forward packaging for PLANTERS^® Dry Roasted Peanuts, now on shelves nationwide.

California Governor Gavin Newsom announced today that he is not signing Assembly Bill 2784, which would have established minimum recycled content in thermoform plastic containers and mandated CalRecycle to collect fees from producers whose products did not meet those requirements.

In what the judges described as “a really impressive innovation,” the label for Des Moines, Iowa, craft beer producer, Confluence Brewery, used Fathom’s brand-new embellishment technology to render attention-grabbing full-motion 3D effects on labeling for the brewery’s ‘Wizard’ Gose-style sour ale. The effects appear to be on three different levels: text and graphics on the label surface, a ‘Northern Lights’-type effect seemingly moving within the can itself, and finally, at the top of the wizard’s staff, a rotating orb that appears to emerge from the surface of the label.

Cadbury and Heinz are amongst the hundreds of companies who must change their packaging following the Queen's death. Queen Elizabeth II died on September 8 at Balmoral Castle.

Following her death, hundreds of other food and drink brands that must now remove certain elements from their products. They must remove late monarch's coveted coat of arms, proudly and prominently displayed on their packaging.

The European Union (EU) has lifted its ban on exports of waste paper to India from April 1, providing relief to the paper industry affected by the raw material shortage.

Waste cuttings or papers are one of the important raw materials for the paper industry, particularly for manufacturing kraft paper which in turn is used for making brown or corrugated boxes used for packing all items from FMCG to electronics.

The EU had banned the exports of these cuttings in November last year. When India raised the issue, the officials there attributed it to a clerical error. 

If thermoforms have a recycling rate of between 50 and 75 percent, they can be exempted from some requirements.

But to do that, they would have to climb much higher bars than they can now. Some studies have found that less than 10 percent of thermoformed containers are recycled.

The legislation would exempt medical device, drug and infant formula packaging.

“We appreciate the decision of the Stiftung Zentrale Stelle Verpackungsregister,” said Dr. Rolf-Egbert Grützner, Senior Manager Technical Support for Ultramid^® extrusion polyamides at BASF. “"It was time to correct the categorization of polyamide 6 and also the related PA6/6.6 co-polyamides and put them on a solid updated basis.”

As early as June 2021, the independent testing and certification facility cyclos-HTP systematically examined and confirmed the recyclability of PE/PA multilayer films on behalf of BASF.

Walmart and P&G, in partnership with international recycling leader TerraCycle, are offering free in-store recycling collection for empty hair care, skincare & cosmetic packaging at 25 Walmart locations throughout communities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Arkansas.