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An “alphabet soup” of less-familiar biopolymer materials with packaging uses is being heavily studied around the world, according to articles in the new Journal of Renewable Materials and recent entries in the JRM’s... find more

Minimizing processing energy is fundamental when making plastic products, and in other manufacturing sectors – and there are various ways for aiding your understanding on where e-efficiency improvements can be made. A few recent... find more

In last week’s “Part 1” about Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), I reviewed the concept and some recent news that’s relevant to plastic packaging. Industry groups and some companies are struggling to come... find more

If plastic packaging becomes more “sustainable” in terms of recycling and bio-based production, it may be inevitable that some new legal or self-imposed burdens will need to be put upon the producers (and users) of packaging.... find more

My last posting gave an overview of thermal pyrolysis-type waste-to-fuel technology for recycling, reusing, downcycling (however you wish to define it) otherwise unrecyclable plastic waste. A few related presentations at the September... find more

This was the rhetorical question considered last Monday by Gene Jones, organizer of the annual Waste-to-Fuels Conference & Trade Show held earlier this week in Connecticut, USA. Jones referred to the fact that some conference attendees... find more