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Unilever UK joins OPRL scheme
24 April 2018 Today INCPEN member Unilever announced its membership of the On-Pack Recycling Label (ORPL) scheme, in a move which will provide simple and consistent recycling guidance across its products sold in the UK. Unilever’s membership will see the UK business introduce OPRL’s recycling labels across [...]
INCPEN statement on the LARAC report titled ‘The Future of Local Authority Waste Funding’
11 April 2018 The Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC) today issued its report on ‘The Future of Local Authority Waste Funding’. Paul Vanston, CEO of INCPEN comments as follows. ‘I recommend all organisations associated with the resources value chain read this LARAC report. It is important for us [...]
Nestlé aiming at 100% recyclable or reusable packaging by 2025
10 April 2017 INCPEN member Nestlé today announced its ambition to make 100% of its packaging recyclable or reusable by 2025. Its vision is that none of its packaging, including plastics, ends up in landfill or as litter. Nestlé believes that there is an urgent need to minimize the [...]
INCPEN statement on Friends of the Earth report
10 April 2018 Friends of the Earth (FoE) issued a report on the joint challenges of food waste and plastic waste. Paul Vanston, CEO of INCPEN comments as follows. ‘The fundamental challenges of food waste and plastics waste that are highlighted in the FoE report are ones for all [...]
INCPEN welcomes Plastipak and Clean Tech as its newest members
We are delighted to announce that Plastipak and Clean Tech have joined as our newest members. See our full press release below.
Carrier Bags
Facts About Supermarket Carrier Bags Initially the only argument put forward to justify the introduction of levies or bans on carrier bags was to reduce litter, but now it is claimed that levies will also reduce resource consumption and protect marine life. The Litter Argument Their is no correlation [...]
Responsible Packaging
Responsible packaging is the aim of all. Companies have a commercial interest in packaging goods responsibly, because packaging represents a cost. Consumers are looking to them to ensure food and drink is fresh, wholesome and free from contamination and that other goods are blemish-free and in perfect working order. [...]
Reusable Packaging
When people think of reusable packaging, they usually think of refillable drinks bottles – but there are many other types of reusable packaging. In Europe, the market share of refillable drinks bottles has been falling while the market share of reusable business-to-business packaging has been growing. That is because [...]
Recycling
Recycling is a way to turn unwanted materials into new ones. It helps to reduce the need for virgin raw materials in manufacture, as well as reducing the amount of waste for disposal. Recycling can also save energy, as reprocessing waste materials, such as glass or metal, often uses [...]
Packaging & Producer Responsibility
Producer responsibility is a policy concept designed to extend a manufacturer’s responsibility beyond the sale and use of its their products to include disposal at end of its life as well. As far as packaging and producer responsibility is concerned, there are two aspects: designing packaging with its eventual [...]
Packaging From Recycled Materials
Many types of packaging – glass, metal, paper, cardboard, plastics – are widely recycled. There is also a long tradition of making packaging from recycled materials. Packaging from recycled materials makes sense when this provides an overall environmental benefit. Often this is the case, but sometimes it isn’t. This [...]
Litter & Packaging
Introduction Litter is any waste in the wrong place. Individuals create litter through thoughtless or anti-social behaviour. Only individuals can therefore prevent it. Many people think that litter and packaging are synonymous but statistically packaging is not the largest component. However by its nature packaging catches the eye and [...]