UFlex, an Indian company specialising in flexible packaging solutions, has obtained approval from the US Food and Drug ...

Emerald Packaging’s shift toward PCR directly supports the sustainability goals of many of its food industry partners.

Polyethylene plastics — in particular, the ubiquitous plastic bag that blights the landscape — are notoriously hard to recycle. They’re sturdy and difficult to break down, and if they’re recycled at ...

Walking down the street, or visiting the park or beach, there’s one thing you’ll almost inevitably see: pieces of plastic packaging—washed up on the sand, tangled in a hedgerow, lying in the gutter.

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The polyethylene packaging market is expected to grow by 14.30 million t during 2020-2024, according to Technavio. The report offers a detailed analysis of the impact of COVID ...

Only a small percentage of plastic bags and other polyethylene packaging is recycled because only low-value products can be made from this waste. Chemists have created a catalytic process that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (The Hill) — Plastic food packaging contains ...

Multilayer plastic materials are ubiquitous in food and medical supply packaging, particularly since layering polymers can give those films specific properties, like heat resistance or oxygen and ...

James Cronin received funding from the UKRI Natural Environment Research Council as co-investigators of the 'Plastic Packaging in People's Lives' (PPiPL) project. Project Reference: NE/V010611/1. More ...