Circularise PLASTICS, a collaborative project for circularity in plastics founded by polyamide supplier DOMO, materials manufacturer Covestro and Circularise, a supply chain transparency start-up, has reached its first milestone.

A consortium of five companies is partnering to develop chemical recycling of plastics in France. The consortium will examine feasibility of recycling products currently considered non-recyclable, such as flexible food-grade packaging.

Plastics industry creates transparency for global plastic flows by avoiding environmental littering, and pushing forward with a circular economy, study shows.

Cook-in-bags are fast permeating the retail outlets, as part of a strategy to curtail food poisoning linked with high levels of bacterium campylobacter, witnessed particularly in fresh poultry.

At the recent K Fair, 3,330 exhibitors from 63 nations demonstrated that plastic continues to be an innovative, indispensable and future-oriented material.

Berry Global has announced a recycling initiative, HolyGrail 2.0, that will use digital watermarking to “tag” plastic substrates or print materials (shrink sleeve, IML label, or paper label) with an identity that could include multiple attributes.