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SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF. (Feb. 3, 12:15 p.m. ET) -- The Save the Plastic Bag Coalition has filed a lawsuit in an attempt to overturn the ban on plastic bags in San Luis Obispo County, California.
February 3, 2012
GREENSBORO, N.C. (Feb. 3, 11:55 a.m. ET) -- Intertech Corp. recently added a Graham shuttle blow molding machine to meet growing demand for custom bottles and containers.
February 3, 2012
ATLANTA (Feb. 3, 11:50 a.m. ET) -- Coca-Cola Co. is increasing the amount of money it allocates to its bin grant program that helps municipalities, communities, organizations, government agencies, schools, colleges and universities purchase recycling bins to $350,000.
February 3, 2012
RIVERSIDE, CALIF. (Feb. 2, 2:30 p.m. ET) -- About six months later than anticipated, CarbonLite Industries LLC has opened its $58 million bottle-to-bottle PET recycling plant in Riverside. The 220,000-square-foot plant -- the largest PET recycling plant in the United States -- will initially produce 75 million pounds of food-grade resin annually.
February 2, 2012
AS, CZECH REPUBLIC (Feb. 2, 2:15 p.m. ET) -- Plastics packaging technology specialist Petainer Czech Holdings sro has developed a PET refillable bottle, claiming to “further improve the sustainability of what is already one of the most environmentally friendly forms of beverage packaging.”
February 2, 2012
CINCINNATI (Feb. 2, 12:45 p.m. ET) -- Procter & Gamble Co. gave Gillette Fusion ProGlide’s packaging a “future friendly” facelift by reducing plastic and incorporating moldable pulp. With 57 percent less plastic than the original clamshell outer packaging and razor tray, the redesign is made of fibrous materials such as bamboo, sugar cane and bulrush. The result is a 20 percent reduction in gross weight and overall reduction of packaging material.
February 2, 2012
LAKE FOREST, ILL. (
UPDATED Feb. 1, 5:50 p.m. ET) -- Pactiv LLC will expand its operations in
South Carolina, investing $5.5 million to add a new production line to its
Beech Island thermoforming facility. The expansion is slated to begin in February, and also includes plans to expand the facility’s warehouse to consolidate Pactiv’s regional operations.
January 31, 2012
LAKE FOREST, ILL. (Jan. 31, 2 p.m. ET) -- Solo Cup Co. has hired CBRE Inc. to auction its former headquarters in Highland Park, Ill, about three years after the collapse of an earlier deal to sell the property.
January 31, 2012
BRUSSELS (Jan. 31, 1 p.m. ET) -- More than 70 percent of people surveyed in the European Union support a ban on plastic bags. The survey was done to explore options to reduce the use of plastic bags and how to improve the requirements of biodegradability under EU law, according to a news release.
January 31, 2012
ATLANTA (Jan. 31, 1 p.m. ET) -- In its eighth sustainability report, Coca-Cola Co. gave itself a “B” grade in the areas of economic, environmental and social performance.
January 31, 2012
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA (Jan. 31, 8 a.m.ET) -- The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has delayed releasing its findings into three separate proposed acquisitions of plastics companies.
January 31, 2012
FAIRLAWN, OHIO (Jan. 30, 6:15 p.m. ET) -- Compounder A. Schulman Inc. is expanding in Europe and boosting its specialty color masterbatch business, buying Elian SAS from British Vita plc. Founded in 1949, Elian has about 100 employees and is located in France’s “Plastics Valley” in Oyonnax.
January 30, 2012
MEXICO CITY (Jan. 30, 3:40 p.m. ET) -- Coca-Cola Co. will invest in excess of $1 billion in Mexico in 2012, CEO Muhtar Kent said at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 28.
January 30, 2012
BRUSSELS (Jan. 30, 3:15 p.m. ET) -- The European Commission is concerned that France has incorrectly implemented the definition of packaging and packaging waste in its national law, as required by European Union waste legislation.
January 30, 2012
WASHINGTON (Jan. 30, 1:20 p.m. ET) -- The amount of activity at the federal level affecting the plastics industry isn’t expected to be high this year, as election-year politics are likely to slow things to a crawl. But the industry has its eyes on several key issues, and is watching for new regulatory challenges and initiatives, particularly from the Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.
January 30, 2012
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