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$2m prize aims to remove waste plastics from the oceans
$2m design competition targets marine waste
Last month saw the launch of a $2m prize by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation intended to encourage plastics packaging designs that will help to minimise marine pollution.
Launched in London by the foundation
together with New Plastics Economy Lead Philantropic Partner Wendy Schmidt and The Prince of Wales’s International Sustainability Unit, the $1m Circular Design Challenge, which invites applicants to rethink how products can get to people without generating plastic waste, and the $1m Circular Materials Challenge, which seeks ways to make all plastic packaging recyclable. “After 40 years of effort, globally only 14% of plastic packaging is collected for
recycling, with one third escaping collection and ending up in the environ- ment,” said Ellen MacArthur. “If we want to change this, we must fundamentally rethink the way we make and use plastics. We need better materials, clever product designs and circular business models.” Entrants will be competing for grants and
visibility for their solutions to major businesses, the innovator community and the public. Winners will also enter a 12-month accelerator programme offering commercial guidance, feedback on user and scalability requirements, advice on performance expectations, and access to innovation labs for testing and development. The first winners will be announced later this year. ❙
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Project boosts flexpack recycling
A pan-European consortium intends to improve the recyclability of flexible packaging. Ceflex has 34 partners, representing all parts of the value chain – from raw materials suppliers through recyclers to brand owners. It intends to make flexible packaging “more relevant to the circular economy”. It continues the work of two recently concluded projects: Fiace, which helped
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to quantify the added value and identify opportunities to increase recycling of flexible packaging; and Reflex, a technical project that focused on recycling flexible packaging in the UK. Graham Houlder, the project
coordinator, said: “The earlier studies clearly identified technical solutions for successfully sorting and recycling more than 50% of flexible packaging.” ❙
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STRETCHING THE LIMITS
High Quality Film Production Lines: Efficiency, Productivity, Flexibility
www.brueckner.com June 2017 | FILM & SHEET EXTRUSION 11
PHOTO: KMIRAGAYA_ADOBESTOCK
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