The EU is putting on pressure: waste-intensive packaging is to be banned, reusable and recycling solutions massively promoted – for this, the responsible Commission has proposed a revision of the…
read moreSUMMARY For flustix on site at the fair: Xenia Kersten, Malte Biss and Krzysztof Babel. The Fachpack is the most important trade fair for the packaging industry in Europe. The…
read moreATTITUDE WITH BISS I recently read something about an impressive comparison on the subject of plastic. Between the years 1950 and 2015, 8.3 billion tons of plastic were produced worldwide.…
read moreINNOVATIONS In the Corona year 2020, private households in Germany generated 78 kilograms of packaging waste per capita. That was an average of six kilograms more per person than in…
read morePackaging check at Amazon, Otto, Zalando & Co. Hundreds of thousands of packages crisscross the country every day: we have shoes and books, vegetables or a new smartphone cable delivered…
read moreNew law aims to avoid take away packaging The non-recyclable mountain of waste is huge: every hour in Germany, hundreds of thousands of plastic-coated coffee-to-go cups and takeaway trays with…
read moreWill these four advertising tricks soon be banned? From “climate-positive” to “plastic-negative” – clever marketing professionals cannot be accused of lacking creativity when it comes to putting a product’s alleged…
read more“Recyclable” – we see this slogan on many packages. But who decides what is recyclable? This is where the German Central Packaging Register Office (ZSVR) comes into play. It has…
read moreBringing used glass to the container has become a part of everyday life and already seems natural to us. But what actually happens to the valuable materials? One example: a…
read moreThe UK Plastic Tax came into force on April 1, 2022. The aim of the new plastic tax is to create an economic incentive for the use of recyclates and…
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