Environment

A survey of more than 7,000 European citizens from 11 countries commissioned from Perspectus Global by Pro Carton (the European Association of Carton and Cartonboard manufacturers) reveals that a larger proportion of consumers in Italy and the UK (54% and 50% of respondents, respectively) have gained in environmental awareness during the pandemic compared to their Spanish, German and French…

ALDI’s “Missione Im-Ballo! Ridurre. Riutilizzare. Riciclare.” (“Mission Packaging, Reduce. Reuse. Recycle”) campaign launched in 2018 with the aim of optimising the use of packaging materials and promoting virtuous packaging waste management is progressing well.

The contribution will be cut from €55 to €25 per tonne from 1 July, bringing savings of more than €135 million for users of paper and cardboard packaging. As of next year, diversified contributions will be introduced for composite packaging not used for containing liquids.

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AMP Recycling, part of the ILPA Group since 2012, has obtained a €5.5 million loan from Intesa Sanpaolo as part of the €6 billion fund intended to help companies make the transition to the circular economy.

Aliplast, a Hera Group company specialising in the production of plastic materials, and Panariagroup, a leading ceramic tile producer, have launched a virtuous and highly successful partnership.

With the aim of converting waste into a resource that generates positive environmental, social and economic value, Aldi is launching a packaging waste management campaign called Missione Im-ballo with targets through to 2025.

As part of its ‘Issue Alignment’ process CEFLEX stakeholders are working with Swiss University ETH to collect and assess topics which are essential to realising a circular economy for flexible packaging.

Trinseo, a global manufacturer of polymers, additives, latex binders and synthetic rubber, has announced the development of an innovative material together with German packaging manufacturer Fernholz.

Asahi Beverages, Pact Group Holdings and Cleanaway Waste Management have formed a joint venture to build a new $32.1 million plastic recycling plant.

NextChem is expanding its circular economy and chemical recycling technologies with the addition of circular ethanol production to its circular hydrogen and circular methanol production technologies (currently in the engineering phase) based on the chemical recycling of plastic and dry waste.

The acquisition of Piacenza-based company Poplast (previously owned by Eos Investment Management) by Green Arrow Capital Sgr has created the first Italian eco-friendly packaging production centre.

Production (+2.4%) and turnover (+2.6%) are up, in the wake of a dynamic domestic demand. The sector is confirmed to be export-oriented, with a positive balance of trade of over 2 billion euros..

The European research project Terminus was launched recently with the aim of developing a new generation of eco-friendly recyclable packaging based on the presence of special enzymes.

The winners of the Conai 2018 Prevention Call (fifth edition) were announced on November 19, that made 400,000 euros available to packaging user and producer companies that have revised their packaging in terms of sustainability.

Sun Chemical and BASF present the potential of their latest solvent-free ink solutions to deliver more sustainable flexible packaging.

A new report, from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) has benchmarked a number of Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) undertaken by Flexible Packaging Europe (FPE), in a wide ranging, in depth, report to understand best practice in using LCA as an assessment tool for packaging.

Europe leads the world in paper recycling, with a rate of 71.7%. In paper and board packaging, the percentage rises to 81.3%.

A little over a month after the coming into force of the new environmental contribution (CAC), the Board of Directors of the Italian National Packaging Consortium has decided to further reduce the CAC for paper and board packaging by 4 euros a ton, that will hence - as of April 1st 2013 - go from 10 to 6 euros a ton.

As the world’s leading event for the digital industry, CeBIT is once again supporting the CODE_n initiative and its international competition for startups and budding enterprises. In line with its motto of “Smart Solutions for Global Challenges”, the contest is devoted to uncovering inspired digital business models for sustained energy solutions.