5:17 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Acquisition

A Closed Loop Partners managed investment fund leads a consortium of investors in acquiring Sims Municipal Recycling, one of the largest privately held recycling companies in the world

The Closed Loop Leadership Fund, L.P., a private investment fund managed by Closed Loop Partners (CLP), has led a consortium of investors, including the Partnership Fund for New York City, in acquiring a majority stake in Sims Municipal Recycling (SMR).
3:32 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Fund

Plastic packaging innovations receive £30 million boost from UKRI

The Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) Challenge has announced £30 million in funding for 18 groundbreaking collaborative projects.
1:44 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Sustainability

UN Environment Assembly opens, sets sites on ending plastic pollution

Delegates were looking to advance a global agreement on plastic pollution, among a ...
1:10 min Strategies & Market Analysis, Sustainability & Circular Economy
Monitoring system

PolyREC® launches RecoTrace™, the multipolymer data collection system to record European recycled plastic data

PolyREC® now a recognized data collector for the Circular Plastics Alliance (CPA) RecoTrace™ is the first comprehensive data system to monitor plastic recycling and recycled plastics use Call on plastics recyclers and converters to register recycled plastics data in RecoTrace™
1:19 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Approval

Norner offers RecyClass certification and testing

Norwegian company Norner has gained official approval as a RecyClass certification body and recognised laboratory.
1:10 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Caps & Closures
Recognition

Aptar named one of Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies in the U.S. for the fourth consecutive year

Aptar has again been named one of Barron’s 100 Most Sustainable Companies. The company is ranked number 70 for 2022 and this marks the fourth consecutive year Aptar has been included on Barron’s esteemed list.
0:32 min Sustainability & Circular Economy, Two step blow moulding systems, Caps & Closures
Join in for the third and last day: Design, SBMT, Labels, Sustainability, Recycling

Pack Passion Week 2022 on 08-10 March 2022

During the free Pack Passion Week 2022 virtual event, participants along the ...
2:20 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Reusable packaging

Kroger's Fred Meyer stores launch Loop in Portland, Oregon metro

The Kroger Co., America's largest grocery retailer, and Loop, the circular reuse ...
3:44 min Strategies & Market Analysis, Sustainability & Circular Economy, Enzymatic recycling
Partnership in Bio Recycling

Carbios and Indorama Ventures to build in France its first-of-a-kind manufacturing plant for fully bio-recycled PET

The plan for the reference plant is to be operational in 2025 /1/ in France (Longlaville) with a processing capacity of 50.000 tons of PET /2/ waste per year and creating 150 direct and indirect new jobs. Indorama Ventures, the world’s largest producer of recycled PET for beverage ...
1:27 min Sustainability & Circular Economy
Waste recovery

The RepescaPlas Project develops a management and recovery system for plastics recovered from the sea by the end of its fourth year

AIMPLAS has now completed the fourth and final year of the RepescaPlas Project, ...