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Day: May 30, 2023

Appointment roundup: WasteAid names new chairman, Cullen Packaging adds new head of sales, i2r appoints new commercial director

UK – British non-governmental organization (NGO) WasteAid has appointed environmental entrepreneur Jonathan Straight as its new chairman. WasteAid works with communities and policymakers in low and middle-income countries to implement waste management and recycling programs. Before being named Chairman, Straight was previously a trustee of WasteAid and has three decades of experience in the waste industry. He takes over as…

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TotalEnergies forges partnership with Bluepha to scale PLA/PHA adoption in China

CHINA – Technology specialist in polylactic acid (PLA) and lactide monomers, TotalEnergies Corbion has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Bluepha to accelerate the market adoption of PLA/PHA-based solutions in China. The collaboration aims to bring together the expertise and resources of both companies to further advance the development of high-performance biopolymer solutions, combining Bluepha® Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) with Luminy®…

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Visy secures US$31.25M to upgrade its Queensland recycling facility

AUSTRALIA – Melbourne-based paper, packaging and recycling company, Visy has secured US$31.25 million (A$48m) to upgrade its recycling and remanufacturing facility in Gibson Island, Queensland, Australia. The upgrade includes a new state-of-the-art paper optical sorting plant and an upgrade to the embedded energy facility onsite, which uses waste as a power source as opposed to going to landfill. The upgrade…

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Canadian regulator recommends easing restrictions on cannabis packaging

CANADA – The Competition Bureau Canada has made recommendations to ease restrictions on cannabis packaging and adjust limits on how much of pot’s psychoactive component can be in edible products. In a submission to Health Canada and a panel reviewing cannabis legislation, the Competition Bureau positioned changing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) limits and giving pot companies more freedoms around packaging and marketing…

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Ardagh Group to build global Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Cape Town, South Africa

SOUTH AFRICA – Global supplier of sustainable packaging solutions, Ardagh Group has announced plans to develop a global Centre of Excellence (CoE) in Cape Town, South Africa. The new CoE will offer some information technology (IT) services to the company’s businesses across Europe, the Americas, and Africa. Ardagh Group chairman Paul Coulson said: “With world-class technology skills and an established…

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