Don’t demonize plastic food packaging. Recycled, it’s better for the environment than some alternatives

Plastics are the most sustainable option. Food suppliers are decades away from other material that performs as well at food ...
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Research into UK’s use of plastic packaging finds households ‘wishcycle’ rather than recycle – risking vast contamination

Lancaster University researchers investigating consumer attitudes and behaviours around plastic food packaging have found UK households are ‘wishcycling’ rather than recycling – and say it’s a problem ...
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Recyclable plastic trays more sustainable than laminated paperboard packaging, recent study indicates

Jonny Catto, Managing Director of iPac Packaging Innovations, which has its HQ in Gateshead, and Jeff Brunskill, Managing Director at Pakway, based in Houghton-le-Spring, shared their thoughts after ...
WUNC

Researchers warn you might not want to reuse plastic food packaging

It's become part of just about everything we use every single day. You know what I'm talking about. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "THE GRADUATE") WALTER BROOKE: (As Mr. McGuire) Just one word. DUSTIN HOFFMAN: ...
Mongabay

What will the Brazilian food industry do about plastic packaging?

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’s 3 ...
AOL

I Thought These Takeout Containers Were Recyclable. An Expert Explains Why They're Not

Recycling isn't as simple as filling that blue bin each week. While the impulse to recycle is good, those intentions don't always translate to proper recycling. Tossing items in and hoping for the ...
Forbes

Food And Beverage Packaging May Cause More Ocean Plastic Than Fish By 2050

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In “The Graduate,” Benjamin Braddock, back from school, is told the secret of the future in one word. “Plastics.” At the time the ...
Newsday

Failure of talks for plastic treaty turn focus back to reduce, reuse, recycle. How's that going?

Talks aimed at a global treaty to cut plastic pollution fizzled in Geneva this week, with no agreement to meaningfully reduce the harms to human health and the environment that come with the millions ...
Yahoo

Plastic bags sold in California stores aren't actually recyclable, Bonta says

California is suing three plastic bag manufacturers that officials say are violating state law by providing bags billed as recyclable when they are in fact not, state Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta announced ...
Recycling Today

Strengthening the recycled plastic supply chain

With the rise of recycled content mandates and extended producer responsibility (EPR) programs, the market for recycled plastics is growing rapidly. Research from Fortune Business Insights projects ...

Plastic recycling rules are changing in March, here's how it will affect you

Changes to household collections are part of wider moves to increase the recycling rates, which have stalled in recent years.