SPE: The Society of Plastics Engineering

The Cradle to Cradle (or C2C) concept has been around since the early 1990s, but many companies still do not fully understand it, much less practice it. A recent plastics packaging development in Europe, though, provides an excellent model for others interested in proceeding down the C2C path. After almost four years of development, Vienna, austria- based packaging and paper producer Mondi group enlisted the support of several partners—to include Kälin’s own EPEA Switzerland GmbH—to develop a fully recyclable, all-polyethylene, stand-up pouch for a german maker of cleaning products.... Read the whole article here.