NEXTLOOPP, the revolutionary recycling project by Nextek Limited has recently been awarded the Best Sustainable Packaging Innovation during Packaging Europe’s Sustainability Awards. They have released results of their tracer-based sorting trials which were done in TOMRA in September 2021. At maximum production speed, the equipment was able to sort food-grade plastic packaging waste at 99.9% sorting purity. The machine was not only able to identify food packaging from non-food types, but it … [Read more...] about NEXTLOOPP wins award for Best Sustainable Packaging Innovation
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Waddington jumpstarts local closed loop packaging in Ireland
With sustainability and saving the environment as still the top priorities in the packaging industry, many nations are coordinating with local companies to make this happen. One such country that has kicked off a closed loop packaging system within their locality is Ireland, through the efforts of Waddington Europe. This thermoforming packaging company has partnered with Shabra to buy local food-grade recycled PET (rPET) and manufacture new products from these. rPET is sourced from tubs, … [Read more...] about Waddington jumpstarts local closed loop packaging in Ireland