Sustainability
Health concerns around additives in plastics are taking an elevated role at the plastics treaty talks.
Nohra Padilla said during a side event at the Paris treaty talks that she began working in a landfill, picking out plastic and other waste to sell, when she was 7 years old.
Negotiations for a plastics treaty got off to a rocky start in Paris, with some sources suggesting that disputes over potential caps on resin production were a significant reason.
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As the second round of the global plastics treaty kicks off in Paris, plastics industry groups and companies step up their presence with about 60 delegates from different companies and trade associations, roughly double the first round of talks in Uruguay in November.
The new materials also allow UBQ products to be compounded with a brighter spectrum of colors beyond brown, black and gray.
Partners in the Enval Ltd. plant aim to process 6,000 metric tons of flexible packaging in the plant's first year of operations.
Here's a rundown of a few social media accounts from the plastics industry worth following.
The next round of plastics treaty talks begin Monday in Paris, and Plastics News will be there.
For the first time, a PET resin made from carbon captured from emissions has been successfully produced and used in packaging applications.
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