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- Release Liners: A Worldwide Special Report: Release LinersPackaging Waste?
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- October 31, 2002, ... that they simply go into landfill. European Legislation Europe is ahead of other global regions in addressing this issue and has taken the route of legislation. In 1994 the European Union (EU) issued ...
- Waste Not: Waste Management in Europe's Packaging and Label Industrie
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- June 30, 2002, ... reducing the amount of landfill and incineration without energy recovery (two major global environmental concerns), and secondly at driving down the levels of waste in the packaging industry as a whole. ...
- The European Directive on Packaging and Packaging waste
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- April 30, 2002, ... to establish a set of rules for waste management in the European packaging industry. The reduction of landfill, and parallel increase in re-use, recycling, and incineration, were the prime aims of the ...
- Will We Soon be Eating the Film Along with the Food?
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- November 30, 2001, ... movie theaters. Respectable consumers that dispose of packaging properly also contribute to the need for adequate recycling techniques and the accumulation in landfills of materials that can decompose ...
- More New Products for the Converting Industry
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- August 31, 2000, ... in outdoor, landfill, and compost conditions. Flexo UV Ink Cleaner Cuts Cleaning Time Citrus Safe Inc., Chicago, IL; 773/638-6900 Yellow Magic is described as an easy-to-use, environmentally friendly ...
- Managing Your Way Through a ''Green'' Futur
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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?
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- 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 ...
- Winders/Unwinders: Gettting Better Every Day
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- August 31, 1995, ... devalued, culled or scrapped. "I have seen a situation in which 20%-80% of all production from a winder for half a decade went into a landfill due to a single winding defect," writes Roisum. That situation, ...
- Recycled paperboard mfrs. unite to promote usage.
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- July 31, 1995, ... have been burned or landfilled. A 1994 national survey of more than 1,200 primary shoppers conducted by LH Research showed that 84% report buying products packaged in 100% recycled paperboard, 81% feel ...
- Ceramic heater rollers an exciting new alternative.
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- 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 ...
- Interest in waste-disposal technologies at all time high
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- May 31, 1995, ... area where European technologies have the advantage is in the design and operation of waste-to-energy technologies. "Most European countries ran out of landfill space years ago," Doug Augenthaller, a ...
- Conserving weight, space earns praise for flexible
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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, ...
- Dutch converter expands in worldwide flex-pack market
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- January 31, 1995, ... in effect in Europe presently, the severe lack of landfills and increasing tipping fees make recycling a primary corporate goal," Paalman said. "We have identified a new entity which I call the Eurocustomer ...