7 ways packaging is changing to reduce plastic waste
WEB4 days ago · Packaging generates the most plastic waste of any sector. Brands are investing in new ways to package their products. Alternatives to plastic include laser-etching vegetables and engineered cardboard. There’s also a growing emphasis on how containers can be reused and recycled.
How to Solve the Problem of Plastic Packaging | WIRED
WEBMay 20, 2022 · In the battle to stem the tide of plastic waste, companies and academics are developing new ways to reduce plastic packaging—the single largest source of this waste.
What is Plastic Packaging? - PlasticRanger
WEBPlastic packaging comes in numerous forms, including bottles, wrappers, bags, containers, and more. It protects products from contamination and damage and extends the shelf life of perishables, thereby helping to reduce wastage.
Types of Plastic Food Packaging and Safety: A Close-Up Look
WEBApr 8, 2024 · Plastics are used in many types of food packaging and containers for a variety of reasons – they help protect foods from damage, provides food safety and extends the freshness of foods.
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Plastic packaging problem: Five innovative ideas - The World …
WEBOct 17, 2019 · Here are four innovative ways alternatives to plastic that are being used for packaging. 1) Bottles made of soap What’s the best way to stop people from throwing away empty soap and cosmetics packaging?
Different Types Of Plastic Packaging Explained
WEBApr 28, 2021 · Different Types of Plastic Packaging. Some plastics are better suited to a specific kind of packaging than others. This guide to plastic packaging will outline the most commonly used types of plastic, their properties, and typical applications.
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Rethinking Plastic Packaging | The National Environmental ... - NEEF
WEBOct 5, 2020 · In response to growing concern about the plastic waste crisis, some businesses have begun developing more sustainable types of plastic packaging, while others are creating and promoting the use of alternative packaging materials.
Why Is There So Much Plastic Food Packaging? - The New York …
WEBApr 2, 2024 · As governments impose limits on plastic food packaging, climate-friendlier alternatives are in the works. Here are some that might be coming to a grocery store near you.
Plastics: What’s Recyclable, What Becomes Trash — And Why
WEBAug 21, 2019 · What’s recyclable in one community could be trash in another. This interactive explores some of the plastics the recycling system was designed to handle and explains why other plastic packaging...
Everything you need to know about plastic pollution
WEBApr 25, 2023 · Affordable, durable and flexible, plastic pervades modern life, appearing in everything from packaging to clothes to beauty products. But it is thrown away on a massive scale: every year, more than 280 million tonnes of …
Plastic food packaging: simply awful, or is it more complicated?
WEBFeb 1, 2022 · The role of packaging in increasing shelf life and thus reducing food waste is important because a large part of the carbon footprint from our diets arises from the foods themselves, with packaging adding only a tiny amount.
Plastic packaging: How are supermarkets doing? - BBC News
WEBSep 13, 2019 · The supermarket says it is working through all of its own brand products to identify, reduce and remove any unnecessary plastic packaging.
Global plastic packaging industry - statistics & facts | Statista
WEBIndeed, plastics have become essential to the global packaging industry thanks to their versatility, durability, low cost, and lightweight properties. In 2022, the global plastic packaging...
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Understanding plastic packaging: The co-evolution of materials …
WEBNov 1, 2020 · This paper has outlined a socio-technical approach to plastic packaging, emphasising the co-evolution of materials and society. Drawing on a range of case study examples, the analysis has explored some of the mechanisms through which packaging – and attendant consumer practice – changes.
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Plastics Explained—What You Need to Know - National Geographic
WEBMay 16, 2018 · Plastic products designed to be used only once, such as thin grocery bags and the film packaging that seals everything from food to toys, is known as single-use plastic.
The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics
WEBThe New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics. Applying circular economy principles to global plastic packaging flows could transform the plastics economy and drastically reduce negative externalities such as leakage into oceans, according to this new report. The New Plastics Economy: Rethinking the future of plastics provides ...
Plastic Pollution - Our World in Data
WEBImproving the management of plastic waste across the world – especially in poorer countries, where most of the ocean plastics come from – is therefore critical to tackling this problem. On this page, you can find all of our data, …
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Sustainability in packaging: Global regulatory development across …
WEBFeb 7, 2022 · Plastic packaging. In the past three years, sustainable-packaging regulations have tended to focus primarily on plastic packaging (versus other substrates). Eighty-three percent of the legal measures relating to sustainable packaging worldwide focus on plastics—with a total of 147 measures identified. The European Union and Asia …
Five Reasons to Slash Plastics in Packaging | SupplyChainBrain
WEB5 days ago · Find out why, and how: Plastics packaging generates more waste than any other industry. In Europe, plastics packaging accounts for 59% of all plastics by weight, and that number is closer to 65% in the U.S. Worse, plastics packaging is also bad for a business’s bottom line. The costs of switching to sustainable packaging concern 43% of …
Aquapak study says shift from plastic to paper packaging moving …
WEB5 days ago · A comprehensive new packaging study by United Kingdom-based polymers developer Aquapak Polymers Ltd. claims 92 percent of those surveyed plan to stop using plastic in their consumer packaging altogether, with paper and paperboard named as the replacement materials of choice, followed by new polymers, bioplastics and multimaterials.
‘It just didn’t work’: how businesses are struggling with re-useable ...
WEBMay 13, 2024 · Disposable plastic foodware and packaging, which accounts for nearly 40% of all plastic production, can only be phased out if there are robust, efficient reuse systems to replace them.
M&S teams up with recycling tech group to trace plastic packaging ...
WEB4 days ago · Last modified on Wed 15 May 2024 19.26 EDT. Marks & Spencer is teaming up with a recycling technology group to enable the retailer to trace what happens to its drinks bottles, cartons and other ...
Plastic net bags make way for recyclable alternatives this …
WEB4 days ago · Australia's second largest supermarket chain Coles is replacing plastic net bags with paper bags for its mandarins this season in a bid to reduce plastic waste. The company said the new packaging ...
The 100-Year Quest to Make a Paper Bottle - WSJ
WEB5 days ago · The 100-Year Quest to Make a Paper Bottle Pepsi, Procter & Gamble and Diageo are among companies contending with how to keep drinks fizzy and products fresh while ensuring the bottles can be recycled
M&S partners with Polytag to trace plastic packaging life cycle
WEBBritish multinational retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) has joined forces with recycling technology company Polytag to trace the life cycle of its plastic packaging, the Guardian reported. This ...
Polytag single-use plastic packaging recycling scheme has Marks …
WEB3 days ago · As a founding member of the programme, M&S, will gain real-time insights into where, when, and how much of its single-use plastic packaging is collected and sorted at recycling centres across the UK. This data – at barcode level – will provide a verified benchmark for understanding recycling rates of its used plastic packaging.
Why Coca-Cola changed its bottle shape | GreenBiz
WEB6 days ago · Coca-Cola is changing the shape of single-serve plastic bottles across its Sprite, Fanta, Coca-Cola and Minute Made product lines in an effort to reduce the average weight by more than 31 percent. The initiative applies to 12-, 16.9- and 20-ounce polyethylene terephthalate (PET) bottles and affects the company’s most popular …
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