By Darren Milligan, Vice President / General Manager ASEAN at Avery Dennison Today’s generation has deemed single-use plastic packaging one of the necessary evils of our society, and justifiably so with the COVID-19 pandemic bringing to the fore our heavy reliance on this packaging material. We are undoubtedly facing a plastic pollution crisis. Southeast Asia alone generates a combined 31 million tonnes of plastic waste per year from six ASEAN member states. In particular, the … [Read more...] about Sustainability through innovation: how improving end-of-life treatment for single-use plastics reaffirms the F&B industry’s commitment to close the loop
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Indorama Ventures and Evertis collaborate to strengthen circularity in PET food tray packaging
Indorama Ventures Public Company Limited (IVL), one of the world’s leading sustainable chemical companies, and Evertis, a pioneer in sustainable PET barrier films, are collaborating to use flake from recycled PET trays to produce PET film suitable for food packaging trays. The partnership is an important step in diverting PET trays from landfill or incineration to support the EU’s recycling targets and create a circular economy for PET trays. After six years of research and development, … [Read more...] about Indorama Ventures and Evertis collaborate to strengthen circularity in PET food tray packaging
Ring Container Technologies introduces new PET packaging for carbonated drinks
U.S.-based Ring Container Technology has developed customisable PET bottles that keeps the fizz in carbonated beverages and energy drinks. This new packaging features the BarrierGuard® Enhance™ technology. It’s hard to keep carbonation in smaller, traditional PET packaging because of the volume and surface area. This is where the Enhance™ technology comes in, which preserves the quality of the carbonated drinks throughout the product’s shelf life. These bottles are designed to be … [Read more...] about Ring Container Technologies introduces new PET packaging for carbonated drinks
