by Editor | Sep 30, 2022 | News
FGC and The Packaging Forum are to jointly lead a project to co-design a plastic packaging product stewardship scheme for New Zealand. The project will use funding from the Government’s Waste Minimisation Fund to help design a regulated plastic packaging product...
by Editor | Aug 24, 2022 | News
Dutch bubbles The Great Bubble Barrier is cleaning rivers from plastic pollution using bubbles. Brilliant! This is such a smart way of dealing with the mess created by the huge plastic pollution problem. The Bubble Barrier catches plastic over the full width and depth...
by Editor | Apr 27, 2022 | News
With hard-to-recycle and single-use plastics, such as supermarket meat trays, set to be banned from October this year, an innovative New Zealand company has found a way to package meat using a fully compostable alternative. New Zealand company EarthPac has...
by Tash McGill | Jul 9, 2020 | News
The invention of plastic served a pressing environmental problem. Before plastic, ivory, tortoiseshell and other animal products, along with various woods, were used to make everyday products and this was not sustainable. In 1909 Belgium chemist Leo Baekeland created...
