Sustainability

Cardia Bioplastics has launched a sustainable bioproducts bag range which helps divert organic waste from landfill.

Unilever has initiated a peer movement focused on waste solutions.

Kimberly-Clark (K-C) has reaffirmed its commitment to packaging recycling with the release of its 2014/15 Sustainability Progress Report.

Unilever has achieved a key sustainability target of sending zero non-hazardous waste to landfill, with its 240 factories in 67 countries eliminating their landfill waste.

Complete material traceability is important to dairy companies in Finland and Sweden, which are adopting the fully-renewable Tetra Rex Bio-based carton for milk packaging.

Australia’s only premium wastepaper recycling and de-inking plant has opened in Victoria's Latrobe Valley.

PlantBottle 2.0, the 100% biobased PlantBottle, will be previewed at Expo Milano that opens on 1 May.

The second FINAT Recycling Awards Competition is open, to applaud efforts in paper and film release liner recycling.

A nine month trial examining the recycling of flexible laminate packaging is underway in the UK.

On completion, APP will have installed approximately four million square metres of solar panels, the equivalent of 560 football pitches.

Dr Carol Lawrence, Environmental & Sustainability Specialist, UPM Raflatac Oceania was awarded AIP Fellowship last night.

Tetra Pak is rating 2014 a success, with higher recycling rates, lower CO2 emissions and commercialisation of the world’s first 100% bio-based carton achieved.

Two organisations, As You Sow and the Natural Resources Defense Council, have identified the polluters contributing most to the $14.8 billion worth of materials being wasted every year.

A plantable coffee cup studded with native seeds rewrites the rubbish or recycle dilemma.

The Ocean Cleanup

How 20 year old Boyan Slat has created, developed and funded a way to clean up half of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch in ten years.

The NSW cash-for-container scheme stoush goes on...and on... Meanwhile GreenMoney is advancing recycling rates with a simple rewards program.