RFID labels present substantial opportunities and challenges alike to packaging’s sustainability chops. Experts are bullish on overcoming obstacles around material miscibility, and unlocking the sortation-improvement potential that RFID labeling poses.
Source: RFID at the Intersection of Smart Packaging and Sustainability | Packaging World
While the market is expanding, speakers at an International Molded Fiber Association event said it still faces an entrenched competitor in plastic and hurdles with feedstock availability, energy use and other factors.
Source: Molded fiber’s growth as a plastic replacement isn’t pulp fiction | Packaging Dive
Degradable additives, nutrients and supplements will boot packaging into the non-recyclable category, according to an update to the Association of Plastic Recyclers’ Design Guide for Plastics Recyclability. Continue Reading→
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a chemical process to vaporize PE and PP into the feedstock monomer propylene.Continue Reading→
Smithers’ Advanced Recycling Summit brings together 120 chemical industry and CPG attendees to discuss the opportunities and challenges related to the technology.
Source: Smithers’ Advanced Recycling Summit Recap | Packaging World
Coalition seeks to narrow definition of ‘recycling’
The Policy Committee of the National Recycling Coalition has published a draft policy called “Chemical Recycling Is Not Recycling” and is seeking review and comment.
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Jill Hunsaker Ryan, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, has appointed 13 individuals to serve on the Colorado
Additions to the U.S. Plastics Pact’s list are targeted for elimination by 2030, building on 2025 goals. The group says many of these items are not commonly recyclable.
With the U.S. Plastics Pact on track to eliminate its initial 11 problematic plastics by 2025, the group decided to add three more items to the list. Continue Reading→
Source: U.S. Plastics Pact adds to its list of ‘problematic’ plastics
Draft federal legislation would set federal parameters around recycling labels on consumer packaging, and an industry group is pushing for it to preempt any state recyclability labeling lawsContinue Reading→
Source: Ameripen voices opinion on draft federal labeling law