The Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) introduces binding minimum quotas for the use of recyclates in packaging. From 2030, plastic packaging for food or cosmetic products that is not made from PET must contain at least 10 per cent post-consumer recyclate (PCR), recycled raw materials derived from used packaging.
In the brand-new Innovation Center in Valencia, CABKA bundles its innovative forces and works intensively on technologies for the future. CABKA will be opening a research center at the Technological Park Paterna on a surface area of 800 m², in order to pool the company’s innovative forces and intensify its efforts in developing new technologies for …
The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), producers of NPE2018: The Plastics Show, today announced a 100-percent waste diversion goal for this year’s NPE, which will welcome more than 65,000 plastics professionals to the Orange County Convention Center (OCCC) in Orlando, Fla. from May 7-11. The goal demonstrates the association’s commitment to sustainability and aims to exceed the …
Technologically, plastics recycling is not a problem at all today. In-house recycling has now become established right across industry. For plastics processors who work with pure-grade raw materials, the waste-free factory has become commonplace. And for post-consumer wastes, there are increasingly mature reutilisation strategies, enabling the regranulate produced with them to substitute virgin material without …