When the products we buy claim to be ‘100 percent recycled’, ‘eco-friendly’, ‘sustainable’, ‘recyclable’ or ‘zero-waste’, how do we know we’re getting the full story? Taya Groups, creator of PVC-free banner material range KAVALAN, has launched the KAVALAN PVC-Free Pledge for the Planet, a video highlighting the prevalence of greenwashing and how the Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) process can help substantiate these claims.

- Awards recognise three sustainable packaging innovations from Mondi
- EcoVantage, WalletPack Recyclable and Functional Barrier Paper highlight Mondi's commitment to developing circular solutions in line with the company's MAP2030 sustainability goals

Thimm has once again been awarded a silver medal by EcoVadis, an independent ratings platform for companies’ sustainability performance. The packaging manufacturer improved on its previous year’s result and is now with this overall result positioned within the top 10 percent of rated companies in the same sector.

- Celebrating the excellence in eco-responsible product & packaging design and initiatives for less single-use plastic across the world -

Just 7 days left until the BEYONDPLASTIC AWARD 2021 will close its gates on September 15.

More environmentally friendly printing is fast emerging as a key industry trend for the 2020s.
With the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issuing a ‘Red Alert’ for climate change on 9 August, brand owners and consumers are increasingly searching out and choosing solutions that minimise carbon emissions and waste.

The portfolio protects the recycling stream by preventing contamination

In a market first, RecyClass has approved products from Avery Dennison’s film portfolio for complying with HDPE recycling guidelines. Label producers and brand owners across the home and personal care and food sectors will benefit from this accomplishment, which can help them increase recycling rates.

SGP Partnership seeks comments on Version 4.0 of its sustainability certification criteria for the printing industry until Sept. 30, 2021

Exhibits include first applications based on post-consumer recycled specialty styrenics materials
INEOS Styrolution to exhibit in booth 16 at PIAE

Swiss dairy company Emmi is cooperating with Borealis and Greiner Packaging to offer Emmi CAFFÈ LATTE in drinking cups made from chemically recycled polypropylene.

New PE-based, high-barrier, flexible stand-up pouches deliver toughness, stiffness and shelf-appeal and can be produced at speed, on existing VFFS production lines.

At our Ehingen paper and pulp mill in Germany, we’re using state-of-the-art technology to become more eco-effective – reducing waste, emissions and maximising material and resource use at every opportunity. Together, we can co-create solutions to boost our eco-effective impact. The opportunities are endless.

Fraunhofer develops synthetic fuels from paper residues

The Fraunhofer Institute UMSICHT is producing a sustainable fuel from paper residues in the "Reststoff2Kraftstoff" project. Together with seven partners from industry and science, 50 tonnes of feedstock from the paper and pulp industry are being processed into CO2-neutral crude oil and further into standard-compliant petrol and diesel. This is then tested in series-production trucks.