Environment and laws

Sustainable energy for sustainable growth: components and solutions for climate change and energy transition.

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.

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

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 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.

With two different credit lines, the European Investment Bank (EIB) is making available to BNL BNP Paribas Group a total of EUR 350 million for financing Italian SMEs and midcaps, including through leasing schemes.

The guidelines for the documentary avowal of GMP are now available. Developed under the CAST project, they are the result of a longterm project that, through knowledge sharing, becomes a common platform for dialogue between packaging producers and food control bodies.

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.

Dec Impianti SpA (solvent recovery systems using activated carbon) proposes a process of recovery in three main phases: adsorption on beds of activated carbon; desorption through the use of inert gas; distillation of the solvent.

In Milan, a new road sign system identifying what has been called Area C, with traffic restrictions, communicating the restrictions on the circulation of private vehicles, aims to improve relations between the city authorities and the public.

The new EU Regulation 1169/2011  on the provision of food information to consumers was published in the Official EU Journal dated  22-11.2011.  The final text is the result of years of work within the European institutions and helps to unify the laws of the single countries. The regulation systemically orders the complex field of food labeling, guaranteeing consumers the right to be well informed…

Ecomondo, the international trade fair for material and energy recovery and sustainable development (Rimini, 9-12th November 2011), concluded its 16th edition with a 16.7% increase of visitors (75,980 in total) and 49% increase of foreign operators (7,754).