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- Flex-Pack & Recycling in Japan
- (Flexpack)
- June 29, 2004, ... Facing significant shortages in available waste disposal capacity (the government estimated only 3.9 years of industrial landfill space remained), Japan sought to reduce waste and improve its material ...
- Bio Break Down
- (Flexpack)
- March 30, 2004, ... discarded. Degradable packaging products can replace nearly every plastic used today and even can degrade gradually in some landfill conditions. They bridge the gap between non-biodegradable and the ...
- Appleton Introduces Ream Wrap MoistureBloc; Delivers Moisture Barrier and Is 100% Recyclable/Repulpable
- (News | New Products)
- March 04, 2004, ... "but it's not and it often ends up as landfill waste. We use our coating capabilities to engineer MoistureBloc to provide cut-sheet producers and retailers a moisture-resistant barrier wrap with great shelf ...
- Converter Panel Attracts Interest at Conference
- (The Place)
- September 30, 2003, ... David R. Roisum of Finishing Technologies, Inc., spoke on “Thinking Thin.” Noting that the markets driving converters to ever thinner webs to reduce material costs and waste going to the landfill provide ...
- Managing Your Way Through a ''Green'' Futur
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 2000, ... to infiltrate many new and untapped markets. At the same time, however, there is a rising tide of sentiment--fueled by environmental groups and growing concerns regarding rapidly decreasing landfill space--calling ...
- FPA Winners Prove Again How to Do More with Less
- (Magazine)
- February 29, 2000, The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, DC, presented its 1999 Top Packaging Awards to seven companies for flexible packages that broke The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), Washington, ...
- Saudi methanol producer plans expansion program
- (Magazine)
- November 30, 1996, ... are currently in operation for the treatment of industrial waste waters, which are rich in organic matter but low in solids. In the case of municipal solid waste, the space for new landfilling sites ...
- Partnering launches future growth in laminations
- (Magazine)
- August 31, 1996, ... suppliers are adopting proactive positions regarding the environment, seeking to have minimum negative impact on air quality, landfill disposal, and the treatment of liquid waste. To move in the direction ...
- Trim system in India to be first to handle sugarcane paper.
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 1996, ... shrinkwrap from landfill sites but will also save Tesco [pounds]12 million a year. The scheme proves that it can make good business sense to be environmentally sensitive." The reusable trays are designed ...
- Pollution and politics: how green will the new year be?
- (Magazine)
- January 31, 1996, ... to former municipal landfills, and parties who sent waste to oil and battery recycling facilities prior to 1987. The Oxley bill also repeals the preference under the current law for remedies that focus ...
- Ceramic heater rollers an exciting new alternative.
- (Magazine)
- July 31, 1995, ... and high temperature, oil breaks down and carbonizes. At this point the waste oil requires special packaging and disposition at expensive, isolated toxic waste landfills. Also, carbonized oil restricts ...
- Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible
- (Magazine)
- March 31, 1995, ... to the landfills in one year. The package was switched from a paper wrapper and folding box to 48-gauge polyester, flexo-reverse printed and adhesive laminated to a 1.5-mil white low-density polyethylene ...
- Shredders provide recycling advantages
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 1995, The company's core shredders are designed to handle cores and butt rolls up to 8-in. in diameter at a speed of 40 fpm and shred up to 8 tons of cores/hr. The company's core shredders are designed to handle ...
- Familiarity with change no surprise in this industry
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 1995, ... film recovery "We've just started a pilot program, working with 10 to 15 customers, to divert material from landfill or recover it one way or another," Tatum said. "Some films can be recycled or incinerated ...
- State legislative action includes removal of 2 bans: 1994
- (Magazine)
- February 28, 1995, ... or refillable or reusable containers. Other provisions could have mandated: recycled content in packaging, a ban on transport packaging, including shrink wrap, from disposal in landfills and incinerators, ...