Ellen MacArthur: substituting virgin grades with plastic recyclate is only part of the solution

The UK’s Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) announced that the list of single use plastic (SUP) products banned in England is to be expanded later this year. When the changes are implemented, the items subject to sales restrictions will be the same as those banned in the EU under the Single-use...

In most areas of application, plastics apparently release fewer greenhouse gases than alternatives. This is the result of a study by the consulting firm McKinsey, New York. The study comprised 14 plastic products from various application areas, including six types of packaging, and compared them with common,...

For manufacturers of flexible plastic packaging, the first half of 2022 was characterised by strong demand on the one hand, but also by difficulties in the supply chain on the other. According to some interviewees, demand was high from the food sector, and increasingly also from bulk consumers. Furthermore, good demand...