As consumers around the world look to make more sustainable decisions in their day-to-day lives, the move away from single-use plastic bags has been one of the most noticeable packaging trends. Ecobag Network, the largest producer of ecological paper bags in Poland, has recently turned to Stora Enso for a solution that achieves new levels of lightweight strength and production output.

Customer shopping bags made with marine waste and recycled plastic are being rolled out to Coles supermarkets around the country as part of Coles’ Together to Zero waste ambition.

The 14th European Bioplastics Conference took place on 3 and 4 of this month. Once again, the event lived up to its reputation as the leading business and networking platform for the global bioplastics industry. The event, with a strong focus on growth and innovation, was sold-out and brought together 400 senior executives from across the bioplastics value chain, including brands, policy makers, academia, producers and NGOs.

The study Environmental deterioration of biodegradable, oxo-biodegradable, compostable, and conventional plastic carrier bags in the sea, soil, and open-air over a 3-year period carried out by Imogen E. Napper and Richard C. Thompson of the University of Plymouth, whose results were announced yesterday, intends to provide insights into the ‘environmental deterioration’ of plastic carrier bags made from different polymer types under littering conditions.

Alufoil Trophy 2018: new technologies or techniques bring out the best in aluminium foil, offering high impact shelf presence, environmental advantages and improved consumer convenience.

Innovia Films will be launching several new developments at LabelExpo Europe 2013 in Brussels this September. These include a recently developed topcoat that provides improved cold foil and fine tone capability for outstanding graphics.

After successful installations of AD*STAR sack production machinery in China, the Austrian Starlinger & Co. GmbH exhibits the ad*starKON 60 sack conversion line at the upcoming CHINAPLAS in Shanghai – a first-hand opportunity for bag converters to look at a fully automated process of sack conversion by means of hot air sealing technology.

After the success gained at Interpack 2011 in Duesseldorf, Germany, the IMA TEA & COFFEE Division has just presented, for the first time in Russia, the new C28 for the packaging of tea and herbs in double chamber filter bags.

Tea & Coffee Division, part of IMA Industries, presented for the first time in Russia the IMA C28, the new tea bag machine for ecological filter bags (180 bags or envelopes/minute).

Innovia Films’ high barrier compostable material, NatureFlex™ NK, has been selected by a Dutch company, Amigos International, to wrap its new range of dark, Fair Trade, organic chocolate from Ecuador - Ananda.

Searching for information about polyolefins on Basell’s redesigned web site is now a lot easier.

As an increasing number of brand owners begin to evaluate their product packaging for sustainability—whether to meet mandatory retail initiatives or to reap some of the rewards associated with greater environmental stewardship—one area of great interest is the use of bioplastics as a replacement for traditional, petroleum-based polymer packaging. But what exactly constitutes a bioplastic?