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AptarGroup, Inc., a global leader in dispensing, drug delivery and active packaging solutions, announced that the company has entered into a partnership with Loop, a global circular shopping platform from TerraCycle that delivers consumer products in reusable containers. As part of the partnership agreement, Aptar’s President of Food + Beverage, Marc
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The water brand Dasani announced a robust pipeline of sustainable packaging innovations in support of The Coca-Cola Company’s global “World Without Waste” goal to make its bottles and cans with an average of 50% recycled material by 2030. Updates to Dasani’s packaging line-up are designed to reduce plastic waste and increase
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The RAL Quality Mark is the first independent quality mark that provides information about a product’s proportion of recycled plastic material obtained from the Yellow Bag or Yellow Bin. The reuse of production and industrial waste is expressly excluded in the RAL mark that reports percentage of recycled plastic in order
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Erema, Hall 9, Booth C05 The Vacunite bottle-to-bottle recycling technology from the Austrian recycling machine manufacturer Erema is known for high-efficiency decontamination, best colour values, top IV stability, and low energy consumption during the entire process. Its compact design meets high demands in the production of food-grade rPET pellets. The Vacunite
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The local plastics industry will once again demonstrate its commitment to cleaning up the environment and removing plastics litter from rivers, streams, oceans and neighbourhoods when the annual Clean-up and Recycle SA Week takes place from 16-21 September 2019. According to Douw Steyn, Sustainability Director of Plastics|SA, this is the 23rd
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Amut, Hall 16 , Booth A05 Amut Group carries on with the motto “Go Green” firstly launched during Chinaplas 2019 edition and offers several solutions to support the circular economy. The friction washer, patented machine exhibited, performs intense PET/HDPE/LDPE washing and pollutants removal action. Thanks to the strong cleaning force of
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Gneuss, Hall 9, Booth A38 Gneuss Filtration Technology will be exhibiting different models of the patented Rotary Filtration Systems. These continuous filtration systems are characterised by a filter disk on which the screen cavities are located in a ring pattern. Screens can be changed on the part of the filter disk
Read moreThe European recycling industry is going to miss a 2025 target for recycling PET bottles unless there is a reversal of the slowing growth rate in recovery, according to a new study by the petrochemical market information provider ICIS. The study also found evidence that regulation has become a greater driver
Read moreThe Roman public transport company Atac rewards travellers who correctly deliver empty PET bottles. Passengers receive a bonus for each bottle of any size inserted in the special machines provided by Coripet (Consortium for the Recycling of PET) in metro stations. The bonus ends up in the “virtual purse” of the
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The recycling of PET bottles is an extension of the Russian waste disposal company MAG Group‘s recycling activities and is a consistent step towards a circular economy. The Herbold washing plant is being installed in Nizhniy-Novgorod at the MAG daughter company Fantastik-Plastik. The MAG Group has been active as a conventional
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One of America’s leading mainstream bottled water brand will roll out a next-generation lineup of recyclable, reusable and package-free options – anchored by the first-ever HybridBottle in the U.S. made out of 50% plant-based, renewable material (PlantBottle) and recycled PET (rPET). The 20-oz. bottles will launch nationwide in mid-2020 and will
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