2:16 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Plastic Bans

Plastic Oceans: MEPs back EU ban on throwaway plastics by 2021

single-use cutlery, cotton buds, straws and stirrers to be banned from 2021MEPs added oxo-plastics and certain polystyrenesplastics where no alternatives available to be reduced by at least 25% by 2025measures against cigarette filters and lost fishing gear
1:25 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Sustainabiliy

Unilever and Veolia sign collaboration agreement on sustainable packaging

Three-year partnership will improve waste collection and recycling infrastructure to help create a circular economy for plastics waste.
0:46 min Bottle development and design, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Packaging Development & Sustainability

Ice cream packs have a longer life

The demand for sustainable packaging solutions continues to increase across many ...
1:29 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Global themes
Recycling tour

Insights into the materials cycle of a PET bottle

At the start of October, ALPLA welcomed a dozen journalists from Austrian and German ...
1:46 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Global themes
Recycling

COEXPAN is committed to increasing the recycled content of its PET products to 70% by 2025

COEXPAN endorses the commitment announced by PET Sheet Europe, the association that ...
15:47 min THREE:18, Markets and Management, …

25 Years of Intravis — A Success Story from 3D to 2D. Inspection, Monitoring, Control: the Evolution of Image Processing

With this comPETence interview by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Otto Appel congratulates Intravis ...
4:26 min THREE:18, Global themes, …

Sustainability Focus: Plastic - Lose It or Re-Use It?

Plastic, an influential part of modern society, is under increasing scrutiny for its ...
6:10 min THREE:18, Strategies & Market Analysis, …

The (Tethered) Cap in the Value Chain of Single-Use Plastics (SUP)

The world’s population is growing ever faster, which makes maintaining our supply of ...
8:31 min THREE:18, Markets and Management, …

Challenges Facing the PET Container Industry - Production is out-pacing our ability to manage the plastic waste

The plastics industry has been instrumental in reducing expenses associated with ...
8:50 min Non-Food, Sustainability & Circular Economy, …

The Definition of PCR - “Favouring inefficient production methods?“

An interview by Barbara and Otto Appel with Reinhard Schneider, CEO of Werner & ...