Plastics and the circular economy
28 May 2019
By 2025 the European Union’s (EU) Circular Plastics Alliance expects ten million tonnes of plastic to be recycled every year.
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European Union Ecolabel getting tighter
20 May 2019
Earlier this year the European Union (EU) published some updates to its ecolabelling criteria.
Round and round goes plastic and print
13 May 2019
The circular economy is rapidly moving from being the preserve of green activists and investors out into the mainstream. The idea that everything we use…
Paper industry lagging
7 May 2019
Sad to say the paper industry is still one of the world’s top polluters, alongside steel and energy producers.
Substrate recycling innovations from print provider
29 April 2019
We tend to expect the makers of substrates to be the ones who come up with affordable and recyclable materials, but Australia’s Cactus Imaging is…
Plastic packaging and recycling too simple a conversation
23 April 2019
The enthusiasm for plastics reuse and recycling initiatives is a step in the right direction, but it overlooks the role of consumers.
Sustainable coffee cups getting more sustainable
15 April 2019
At the recent Xeikon Café event in Belgium, on display were samples of single use cups printed on a new plastic free stock.
The Global Sustainability Index
8 April 2019
What matters when looking at the world’s leading one hundred companies and how they are pushing sustainability forward?
Plastic Recycling
25 March 2019
Packaging printed on Low Density Polyethylene (LDPE) is changing. LDPE is the cheapest and most commonly used recyclable plastic but it takes hundreds of years…
Design with the environment in mind
19 March 2019
A couple of weeks ago we talked about the need for designers to think about the environment when planning media projects. This is especially important…
Is it time to think bigger with eco labelling?
11 March 2019
Circular economies are all well and good, but it takes dialogue at many levels, not least between governments.
Paper industry still falling behind
5 March 2019
We’ve been working recently with people from the paper industry and it’s been enlightening. The paper business has a long and lofty history: it’s hundreds…
Sustainability by design
25 February 2019
All the talk about building circular economies can seem very remote from the day to day realities of living life and work’s daily grind.
Digital printing for textiles a bold new future
18 February 2019
Manufacturers of digital printing presses have been eyeing up the textile market for a while. Both direct-to-garment (DtG) printing and the printing of textiles for…
Apple taking environmental lead
12 February 2019
The graphics industry has had a long and mostly affectionate relationship with Apple Computer.