Many paper packages contain a hidden plastic coating that improves performance but makes recycling much more difficult.

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Plastic waste, harmful to the environment, has been increasing continually in Germany in recent years. Packaging generates particularly high volumes of waste. Plant-based coatings for paper packaging ...

Forget everything you know about the benefits of paper straws. Studies show that these plastic alternatives might have a few ...

When US President Donald Trump ordered federal agencies to return to plastic straws, claiming the paper version is ineffective and "disgustingly dissolves in your mouth," he was widely criticized for ...

Flexible plastic packaging – wrappers, pouches, and sachets – is the fastest-growing segment of plastic packaging globally. Lightweight, cost-effective, and highly functional, it has become ubiquitous ...

Technology provider says GAINnext can use deep learning to reduce impurities in sorted and recycled paper and plastic grades. Tomra says its GAINnext paper cleaning application “uses deep learning ...

The recovered paper market has experienced changes in recent years, primarily driven by increased demand for sustainable packaging as well as global economics. These shifts in supply and demand will ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to end the federal procurement of paper straws. The order, which claims that paper straws are “nonfunctional” and says it wants to end the ...

The Zacks Containers - Paper and Packaging industry will continue to benefit from increasing packaging requirements due to the rise in e-commerce activities and steady demand from consumer-oriented ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C.—On a Friday afternoon in mid-January, college students hugged themselves as they lumbered through the University of North Carolina campus. Temperatures teetered just above freezing.