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Share this article Share this article FALLS CHURCH, Va., May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Recycling Partnership and SYSTEMIQ today launched Plastic IQ, a cutting-edge digital tool to help U.S. companies develop effective plastic packaging waste reduction strategies. Created with support from Walmart, Plastic IQ is a forward-looking, data-based planning tool that is aligned with industry best practices. The tool allows companies to prioritize actions to address plastic packaging waste, meet th...

Plastic IQ Targets Plastic Packaging Waste Reduction Brands adopting the no-cost Plastic IQ digital planning tool from The Recycling Partnership and SystemIQ include Colgate-Palmolive, Kellogg’s, Mondelēz, Nestlé USA, Unilever, and Walmart. There’s power in numbers as well as in data, which is part of the reason the launch of the Plastic IQ digital tool promises to help US companies develop effective plastic packaging waste reduction strategies. Launched May 5 by The Recycling Partn...

May 4, 2021 A novel sustainable sleeve for plastics packaging developed by CCL Label has gained recognition from the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR). CCL Label’s EcoFloat has received Critical Guidance Recognition from the US-based association for its ability to help boost PET recycling. Launched last year, EcoFloat is described as a floatable polyolefin shrink film with high shrinkage. CCL Label said the material facilitates the easy separation of labels from PET bottles and other ty...

CCL has received an APR (Association of Plastic Recyclers) Critical Guidance Recognition for EcoFloat, its sleeve material that helps boost PET recycling by facilitating easy separation of labels from bottles and other types of plastic containers. CCL developed EcoFloat to meet the new market demands and to help brand owners reach their sustainability and recycling targets to which they have committed themselves. This hybrid polyolefin film facilitates easy separation of labels from PET bottles...

Login or register now to gain instant access to the rest of this premium content! CCL receives APR (Association of Plastic Recyclers) Critical Guidance Recognition (CGR) for innovative sleeve material that helps boost PET recycling Hybrid polyolefin film facilitates easy separation of labels from PET bottles and other types of plastic containers in the recycling process EcoFloat helps consumer goods companies to reach recycling targets in the United States CCL Label, the world’s largest conve...

Dive Brief: Two-thirds (67%) of consumers consider it important that the products they buy are in recyclable packaging, and the same percentage consider themselves environmentally aware — the same share as before the pandemic, according to Trivium Packaging’s 2021 Global Buying Green Report. The report is based on a survey conducted with Boston Consulting Group with 15,000 consumers in Europe, North America and South America.  More than half (54%) take sustainable packaging into considera...

Getty Images Apr 08, 2021 Driscoll’s, the world’s fresh berry leader, today joins The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment to help advance its pledge to prioritize sustainable packaging solutions that protect fresh berries while minimizing an environmental impact. The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment is led by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation in collaboration with the UN Environment Programme, and unites more than 500 signatories behind a common vision of a c...

Yesterday Driscoll’s joined The New Plastics Economy Global Commitment to help advance its pledge to prioritize sustainable packaging solutions that protect fresh berries while minimizing an…

Tetra Pak Introduces Certified Recycled Polymers Tetra Pak Introduces Certified Recycled Polymers March 1, 2021, /3BL Media/ - Tetra Pak has announced the introduction of certified recycled polymers, becoming the first company in the food and beverage packaging industry to be awarded the Roundtable on Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB) Advanced Products certification. Its carton packages integrating attributed [1] recycled polymers are now available for food and beverage manufacturers. This move ...

GreenBiz photocollage via Shutterstock The COVID-19 pandemic, economic decline, inequality and race relations, and climate change have collectively moved the growing plastic waste crisis out of the priority inbox. To a degree, this is the inevitable consequence of limited political bandwidth to address multiple crises. Beyond the political realm, there are deep fault lines in how businesses, governments and non-government organizations have conceptualized and organized plastic waste solutions. ...