— By Plasteurope.com correspondent — German rigid packaging producer Jokey (Wipperfürth; www.jokey.com) has developed a ...

Caution: Plastic packaging may be hazardous to your health. There’s no such warning on plastic packaging, as there has been on cigarette packs since 1964. But there should be. And just as the ...

This discovery could help companies move away from plastic without sacrificing ... as a sustainable packaging film material, Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications (2025).

The change, announced Thursday, is part of a multi-year plan to remove plastic delivery packaging from fulfillment centers in North America. The company says replacing the roughly 15 billion ...

IKEA, a Swedish homewares giant, has experimented with mushroom-based packaging. As companies step up efforts to reduce their plastic waste, expect plenty more innovation in the years ahead.

Chemical recycling is a newer method that breaks the polymer chains back down into their monomer units and then strings the units back together. The recycled plastic is as good as new. However ...

Brazil produces around 7 million tons of plastic products a year, 44% of which are disposable and single-use plastics, common in food packaging; a significant amount of it ends up in one of Brazil ...

Pakistan’s central bank will experiment with a new polymer plastic currency banknote later this year while redesigning all the existing banknotes for enhanced security and hologram features.

KARACHI: Pakistan's central bank will introduce a new polymer plastic currency banknote later this year while also redesigning all existing banknotes to enhance security and incorporate hologram ...

When a healthy product is encased in plastic packaging, this can negatively affect consumer perceptions of the product. Can front-of-pack labelling mitigate this? Plastic has a significantly negative ...

The stickers are some of the last bits of plastic included in most modern Apple packaging; in recent years, even the plastic backing layer for the stickers has been replaced with wax paper instead.