Edinburgh businesses launch luxury line to tackle dog waste bag pollution

TWO innovative Edinburgh businesses have partnered in a bid to tackle the issue of environmentally harmful dog waste bags. Project Harmless, which was described by...

Do EU draft regulations fall short of uniform policymaking regarding e-commerce?

By Elena Rotzokou, global EPR researcher at Ecoveritas Anticipation, excitement, and even confusion came upon the packaging world when the most recent draft proposal on...
Jude Allan, OPRL

OPRL welcomes UK Packaging PRO appointment

OPRL has congratulated UK Packaging PRO on its appointment to Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO) for EPR for Packaging. Jude Allan, MD at OPRL, said: “We...

New name reflects firm’s ‘leadership’ in plastics recycling

BERRY Global has announced that its Plasgran plastics recycling operation in Wimblington, Cambridgeshire, is to be renamed as Berry Circular Polymers, alongside the company’s...

Quality Street to move to paper wrappers in ‘major’ packaging innovation

NESTLÉ has announced what it says is 'industry-leading' packaging innovations for its Quality Street and KitKat brands. It will see Quality Street move to recyclable...
Francis Sullivan

First global sustainability standard for glass moves a step closer

ResponsibleGlass, the organisation established last year to maximise the contribution of glass to a sustainable society, has published the first draft of its International...

TotalEnergies joins scheme to help develop food-grade recycled polymers

TotalEnergies has joined NEXTLOOPP, an initiative which brings together 48 companies from the plastics value chain with the aim of creating food-grade recycled polymer...

Glasgow City Council calls for single-use vapes to be banned

GLASGOW City Council is calling on the Scottish Government to ban the sale of single-use vapes over fears that the product is marketed to...

Saica expands Nature Kraft range of basis weights

SAICA Paper, the Saica Group business division that produces recycled paper for corrugated, has announced it has expanded the basis weights of Nature Kraft...

New £1m fund looks to remove barriers facing reusable packaging

A £1 million fund has been launched by Hubbub and Starbucks in a bid to remove barriers to reusable packaging in the food and...