News
The Food Packaging Forum reports on recent developments across the food packaging and health field.
February 5, 2019
Researchers at University of Gothenburg publish report on microplastics in the environment; examine occurrence, presence in food chain, toxicity effects, risk assessment
Topics: microplastics
Reading time: 2 minutes
February 5, 2019
Webinar focused on improving plastics recycling rates, avoiding environmental impacts; built on earlier OECD report
Reading time: 1 minute
February 4, 2019
European Environmental Bureau reports on high per capita waste generation, funding of incinerators inhibiting waste prevention and recycling
Reading time: 1 minute
February 4, 2019
United Nations publishes Global Chemicals Outlook report for policy makers; calls for more ambitious actions to minimize impacts of chemicals and waste
Topics: circular economy, regulation
Reading time: 1 minute
February 1, 2019
OECD report suggests establishing global list of restricted substances for plastics manufacturing in order to ‘support quality and consistency in recycling’
Reading time: 2 minutes
February 1, 2019
Nestlé publishes a list of materials to be avoided in its packaging because of recycling difficulties, including PVC, PVDC, PS, ePS, regenerated cellulose, unrecyclable multilayers; industry association counters that ePS can be recycled
Topics: circular economy, recycling
Reading time: 2 minutes
January 31, 2019
Recording of Collaborative on Health and Environment’s recent webinar on microplastics now available online for streaming
Topics: events, microplastics
Reading time: 1 minute
January 31, 2019
News provider Plastic News Europe to host live webinar on ‘Bioplastics: Myths and Truths’
Topics: bioplastics, events
Reading time: 0 minutes
January 31, 2019
ECHA proposes restriction on microplastic particles intentionally added to mixtures across consumer and professional products
Reading time: 1 minute
January 31, 2019
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publishes two reports; review approaches to support alternatives assessment and substitution of chemicals of concern
Topics: OECD, substitution
Reading time: 1 minute
