Not all bag closers use heat or stitching. For heavy bags like bulk grains or fertilizers, other systems—like crimping sealers, plastic liner sealers, or pinch bottom glue sealers—are used. For ...

Today, many of those goals are being quietly rolled back, with plastic recycling emerging as the dominant solution. But recycled plastic still relies on fossil fuels — with their concerning ...

However, the company’s core product lines – pre-roll cones and tubes – are manufactured in Indonesia and India, the global hubs for such products. Custom Cones’ pre-roll machinery, glass tubes and ...

Since 2018 the companies in the coalition, which together account for 20% of global packaging, have reduced their combined use of virgin plastic by 3%. That is commendable, but far short of the 18 ...

Millions of pounds of waste created by Amazon packaging, study finds Amazon generated 208 million pounds of plastic packaging waste in 2022, according to Oceana, an advocacy group dedicated to ...

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 ...

The new regulations include strict guidelines on pesticide use, visitor access, testing requirements, and labeling standards. Additionally, the policy mandates that all packaging for immature plants ...

Online supermarket Ocado is trialling pasta, rice and laundry products housed in pre-filled refillable containers, in a bid to lower packaging waste while maintaining customer convenience. Ocado ...

Plastic, despite its contribution to vast levels of waste in landfill, oceans and on the beaches of Senegal, is a very useful material. Light, resilient and easy to mould into different shapes, there ...

Google has released a Plastic Free Packaging Design Guide, intended to help the consumer electronics sector phase out mixed-material packaging and transition into plastic-free alternatives – all while ...

Amazon generated 208 million pounds of plastic packaging trash in the United States in 2022, about 10 percent more than the previous year, according to a new report from the nonprofit Oceana. This ...

Estimates vary, but about 40 percent of plastic waste comes from packaging. Yet plastic has so far been the most effective tool to fight another environmental threat: food waste.