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Plastic Free Paper™, a plastic-free coating for cellulose packaging
For a long time, plastic additives have been used to ensure the watertightness and sealability of paper packaging. While these substances allow for food use, they have the disadvantage of ...
Heat-sealable packaging without plastic: is it possible?
Trays, films and heat-sealable pouches play an essential role in food preservation. However, in addition to being an environmental hazard, the plastics they are made of are not without health ...
[WHITE PAPER] The importance of the circular economy in packaging
Humans have extracted more raw materials since the Second World War than at any other time in our history. Our planet’s resources are finite. The linear
economy which is based on ...
Food packaging in the scope of single use plastics (SUP) directive
Behind the SUP Directive
In the middle of the climate crisis, plastic appear to be one of the problems at the spotlight. Action is required to overcome the damage that plastic ...
Natural polymers: how are they excluded from the scope of the directive
Single Use Plastics Directive
Its real name is DIRECTIVE (EU) 2019/904 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 5 June 2019 on the reduction of the impact of certain ...
Paper packaging, an ecological alternative to plastic packaging?
Sometimes mistakenly presented as less environmentally friendly than plastic, paper is a packaging material with many advantages. Here’s why paper is an effective and sustainable solution.
The difference between biogenic and ...
How to preserve foodstuffs?
Whether fresh, dry, frozen, canned, pasteurised or dehydrated, food products must meet precise and complex preservation criteria. The packaging materials used play a key role in the preservation of food.
Food ...
What is the paper recycling process?
Paper packaging often incorporates plastic materials to help preserve foodstuffs (oxygen, fats, etc.). The question then arises as to whether these complex (multilayers) packagings are recyclable?
Coated-paper can be used to ...
What is the difference between Solubility and Biodegradability?
What is Solubility ?
Solubility is the property of a solid, liquid or gaseous substance (solute) to dissolve in a solid, liquid or gaseous media (solvent). The solubility depends on the physical and chemical properties of the solute and solvent, on temperature, pressure ...
