In Victorian London, among the factories and warehouses of the city’s East End, Alexander Parkes developed the world’s first plastic (he inventively called it Parkesine). Notpla, a startup now based ...
Companies that use plastic packaging are facing price pressures and supply disruptions, which they warn will likely mean higher costs for consumers. The cost of food-grade resin out of Singapore, ...
"The co-op grocery store offers bulk goods and allows you to bring your own glass widemouth jars and sells jars as well." ...
Todd Grasser, an Amazon process assistant, using an automated device to package items in paper bags for shipping at a facility in Sumner, Wash. (GeekWire Photo / Lisa Stiffler) SUMNER, Wash. — At ...
Food packaging from five countries has complex, unique chemical fingerprints, and some items contain thousands of different chemicals, according to a new study (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2024, DOI: ...
Designing products to be treated through sustainable, efficient, and low-carbon operations in the effort to limit plastic pollution and increase recyclability is now a priority in the European Union ...
Like many other major plastics applications, plastics use in flexible packaging has come under deep scrutiny in recent years as sustainability concerns rise and spread globally. Paper is often lauded ...