Mactac, a leading supplier of PS adhesives, has introduced the company's Simply Sustainable culture of environmental responsibility, which delivers enhanced value to customers, end-users, employees, and communities.Read the full article from Label & Narrow Web.

Earth Day prompts us all to focus on environmentalism. But many associations—through their buildings, sustainability strategies, and advocacy—live the celebration's ethos year-round. In the more than 50 years since a nonprofit called the Earth Day Network (now known as EarthDay.org) marked April 22 as Earth Day, associations and other nonprofi...

State legislators have approved a minimum recycled content bill that is headed to the governor's desk. SB 5022 passed by the state's Senate March 2. After passing in the House, the Senate also approved House amendments to the bill April 19. The bill is headed to Washington Gov. Jay Inslee's desk for signature Read the full article from Recycling To...

Industry experts and environmental groups say they expect SB 5022 to pass, in part, because of strong support for its minimum recycled content requirements, a concept that has been gaining traction nationally. Steve Alexander, president and CEO of the Association of Plastic Recyclers, said he anticipates Das' bill to be one of many such bills acros...

Even though suppliers have been tasked with designing inks that pop on the label – at faster speeds and with quicker turnaround times – the products must still meet the demand for other emerging trends. Sustainability, for example, is a key tenet of ink development, as these products play one of the most vital roles in the health of the environment...

The Northeast Recycling Council's spring conference highlighted the possibilities and the pitfalls of innovation at the local, state, and national levels to improve recycling results. Speakers addressed options for expanding U.S. refillable bottle programs, insights from Canada's diverse EPR systems, and the long-term role chemical recycling could ...

Hundreds of plastics recycling and sustainability professionals are taking part in this week's virtual Plastics Recycling Conference, which is offering discussions on policy, markets and more at a time of sector uncertainty. The 16th-annual Plastics Recycling Conference, taking place April 7-8, has drawn over 820 registered attendees and more than ...

The Recycling Partnership, Falls Church, Virginia, has announced a second round of grant funding through its Polypropylene Recycling Coalition. In this round, nearly $1 million will be distributed to three material recovery facilities (MRFs), allowing them to invest in equipment to recover polypropylene (PP). Read the full article from Waste Today....

The Northeast Recycling Council kicked off their Spring Virtual Conference yesterday with a keynote panel on "Understanding and Choosing the Right EPR Model: The Canadian Experience" moderated by Josh Kelly, Materials Management Section Chief at the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. Next, the discussion turned to "Setting Post-consumer Recycled ...

The leading European organization to define recyclability in Europe and to develop the RecyClass recyclability testing standards, Plastics Recyclers Europe, has recognized Plastics Forming Enterprises (PFE), Amherst, N.H., as an accredited laboratory. PFE, which has a long-standing performance as an approved lab for PET in Europe, is now not only t...

Meeting the ambitious goals of the new U.S. Plastics Pact will require major changes in packaging design and recycling, according to the head of the organization. Emily Tipaldo, executive director for the pact, thinks it could, for example, require doubling the recycling rate for plastic bottles and asking hard questions about whether companies sho...

The company's latest goals and product portfolios are designed to advance the circular economy. Sustainability is not just a buzzword in the label and package printing industry. Not only are these environmental initiatives beneficial for the planet, but there are some significant cost benefits associated with using sustainable materials. As more br...

U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Representatives David Joyce (R-OH) and Dean Phillips (D-MN) introduced legislation, the RECYCLE Act, to create a new federal grant program through the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to help educate households and consumers about their residential and community recycling programs...

Extended producer responsibility — basically fees paid by manufacturers to help fund recycling — would be a big change in policy for the United States. But some members of Congress are taking a look at it and some companies are backing the move. Rep. Rosa DeLauro, the Connecticut Democrat who heads the powerful Appropriations Committee, called at a...

EPL is the largest specialised tube manufacturing company. We do about 8 billion tubes around the world in 20 plants located in 10 countries. It is the largest manufacturer of laminated tubes in the world. We are the first company to get 100% recyclable full tube (the laminate, the cap and the shoulder) from the Association of Plastic Recyclers in ...

Empowering action and communicating the value of recycled plastics. The Association of Plastics Recyclers (APR) today announced the 2021 Plastics Recycling Educational Webinar Series to empower action across the plastics value chain that will contribute to the success of plastics recycling. As The Voice of Plastics Recycling® APR developed this yea...

Speaking with Packaging World in advance of the launch, Greg Corra, Global Packaging Innovations & Sustainability, Colgate-Palmolive, discusses the development of the new 100% recycled-content, recyclable bottle.Read the full article from Packaging World.

With increased pressure to meet numerous sustainability mandates by companies and governments, wash-off label technology offers a way to optimize bottle recycling, deliver more rPET material for the supply chain and produce a clean-label look. Read the full article from Flexible Packaging.

The rules surrounding recycling are confusing, and seem like they're constantly changing. In a 2014 online poll by the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries and Earth911, 65% of respondents said they didn't understand which plastics are acceptable in curbside collection. Confusion leads to contaminated recycling, rendering it useless. However, th...

When the pandemic passes, focus on sustainability will only increase 2020 was a defining year for the world, with the Covid pandemic having a major impact on governments, populations, manufacturing and retail. While much of the label industry has fared better than some manufacturing sectors, it has nevertheless brought about a fair amount of upheav...