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A roadmap for more effective packaging recycling in the US
Recognizing the limitations of the US waste management system, where only about one third of all municipal solid waste is recovered by recycling or composting, GreenBlue® released a report yesterday that assesses a variety of material-recovery systems around the world … Continue reading
Posted in flexible packaging, labels, paper/paperboard/cartons, sustainability
Tagged boxes, cartons, corrugated, flexible packaging, labels, material recovery, municipal solid waste, packaging, paper, paperboard packaging, plastic film, recycling, research grant program, source reduction, sustainability, waste management policies, waste management system
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Top 10 Posts of 2011: Economics, recycling, package design, labeling, etc.
In the course of reviewing the 65 posts I wrote this year, I came across a pretty astonishing statistic: 17,113 readers came to this site and another 9,045 came to my Blog on the Converting Quarterly Website in 2011. The … Continue reading
Posted in coating/laminating, digital printing, flexible packaging, labels, package printing, paper/paperboard/cartons, slitting/rewinding, sustainability
Tagged converting, flexible packaging, ICE USA, labels, plastic film, printing, recycling, source reduction, sustainability, taxes, The Great Recession, unemployment
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Threats & opportunities for the global label market
In a series of wide-ranging presentations at the 2011 AWA DecTec Narrow Web Label & Product Decoration Printing and Imaging conference held earlier this week in Chicago, industry experts from up and down the supply chain addressed numerous threats and … Continue reading
