August 2012

Plantic technologies of melbourne, australia, showed two commercial applications of its plantic eco plastic highbarrier technology. From excelline food products of chatsworth, ca, comes superpremium steak and green chili flautas in a tray shown here that excelline forms from rollstock provided by plantic. And in a premade tray supplied by plantic comes outback spirit sausages from farmfoods australia of geelong, victoria, australia the tray is notable for its custommatched &ldquooutback orange&rdquo color. Both of these innovative packs have extended refrigerated shelf lives.

An innovative airless bottle specifically designed to house luxury or masstige eye treatments featuring a spatulashaped dispenser head that provides excellent application control. The new bottles, available in 10ml and 15ml capacities, offer sensitive dispensing through an elongated dispenser head that can then be used by the consumer to spread the product over the area of the skin desired. Simultaneously, and with minimal pressure,

Recycling international reports that south african recycler extrupet will be introducing a phoenixpet brand later this year in order to promote the use of recycled pet resin in food packaging. According to the pet resin association, pet, or polyethylene terephthalate, is a clear, strong and lightweight plastic belonging to the polyester family. It is typically called &ldquopolyester&rdquo when used for fibres or fabrics, and &ldquopet&rdquo or &ldquopet resin&rdquo when used for bottles, jars, containers and packaging applications.

Polystyrene is a strong plastic, which can be injected, extruded or blowmolded. More than 14 million metric tons of polystyrene are produced annually, and it&rsquos estimated that expanded polystyrene products make up about 25 to 30 of space in landfills around the world. Due to its chemically stable nature it is expected to remain there for hundreds of years. As a result, many cities around the world have banned the use of polystyrene food packaging. A group of students at englandbased university of leicester believe one solution to reducing waste is simply planting polystyrene.

New test protocol for adhesives developed to facilitate thermoform recycling in canada . Canadian retailers address pet thermoform recycling a new test protocol has been introduced to determine the impact of labels and adhesives on pet thermoform package recycling. Developed by the association of postconsumer plastic recyclers apr, in conjunction with the national association for pet container resources napcor, this protocol was instigated by grocery members of the retail council of canada rcc to increase the availability of recyclable packaging in their stores.

Masterbatches and compounds utilizing the mevopur colorants will minimize drug adulteration caused by leaching of substances from the plastics packaging, the company said. Clariant global segment medical & pharmaceutical head steve duckworth said within the pharmaceutical packaging sector there has been increased awareness of extractables and leachables from plastics and how changes in the materials may often result in unintended contamination of medicine.

The canadian plastics industry association cpia released a new report today informing canadians that their recycling efforts have increased the amount of postconsumer plastic packaging being recycled across canada. An additional 15 of plastic packaging was recycled in 2010 compared to 2009 as reported by moore recycling associates inc. This increase is the result of more material collected for recycling as well as more companies providing recycling information. In total, over 217 million kilograms of postconsumer plastic packaging were collected for recycling in canada.