Environmental Responsibility

Petcore Europe, PlasticsEurope, Plastics Recyclers Europe, and VinylPlus have mutually agreed to join forces to form the organisation PolyREC. PolyREC will monitor, verify, and report the plastics recycling and uptake data in Europe. This…

C&T Matrix (C&T) set an objective to reduce manufacturing waste by up to 40% by 2022 through initiatives, such as recycling selected waste streams produced during manufacture. It is doing this by transforming manufacturing processes…

Foil for Snappy, the York-based community initiative renowned for collecting aluminium packaging to raise money for charity, has announced its best-ever year for packaging volumes. During 2020, the programme collected 5,482kg of…

Leading global packaging and paper group Mondi and Tesco Central Europe have launched a new partnership, in which Mondi will purchase the retailer’s warehouse corrugated waste to create recycled paper for the retailers' shopping bags. Tesco…

Long-established Settle-based business, John Roberts Holdings has completed a Management Buyout (MBO) for an undisclosed sum, supported by a team of Yorkshire advisers and funders. With a track record of supplying a wide range of…

The decision to build an anaerobic digestion (AD) plant near Pontefract, which can accept a wide range of feedstock types, including packaged food waste, solid and liquid food waste, crops and agricultural waste, has paid off at Lanes Farm…

The deal will see the wide format graphic specialists offer Monadnock’s new FSC-certified ENVIsual Board Monadnock Paper Mills, Inc., the oldest continuously-operating paper mill in the United States, has entered into a new distribution…

Alupro, the aluminium packaging recycling organisation, has unveiled its brand-new Recycle Aluminium website, to educate consumers about the infinitely recyclable benefits of aluminium packaging. Working to fulfil the industry’s obligation…

Asda is set to remove a further one million pieces of plastic from its stores this year after working with packaging giant, DS Smith to challenge industry standards and find more sustainable solutions within its shops. DS Smith has found a…

Milliken & Company, a global diversified manufacturer with more than a century and a half of materials science expertise, has formally acquired Zebra-chem GmbH (“Zebra-chem”), a global chemicals company known for its peroxide and…