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To understand how some of the largest companies based in the UK and internationally are tackling climate-related sustainability issues this detailed report by EcoAct plays an very crucial role.  The key areas of focus for this year’s report are: Net Zero: How companies will contribute to the Net Zero transition.  Climate Risk: How companies should be assessing and disclosing climate risks and opportunities. Target-Setting: Goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees centigrade or well below 2 degree celcius as advised by the IPCC. COVID-19: Global pandemic which has meant enormous and unparalleled challenges for many businesses.   The Top three Companies and FTSE leaderboard: Top 3 companies: Unilever BT Group Landsec   FTSE leaderboard: This year’s Top 20 performing companies have an average score of 76.8% compared to 75.4% last year. It is encouraging to see that companies appear to be increasing their actions in line with rising best practice, as this year our scoring ha

Guys, Have you heard of PepsiCo Recycling. An initiative by PepsiCo to recycles the bottles and all of their packaging. Their motto is Simple Act. Big Impact. It is so true. As mentioned on their website - PepsiCo Recycling believes that bigger change starts with one bottle, with one person, with one action. They have created multiple Programs and Partnerships to achieve the overall success, and to create an impact in the community. Their Programs include: Recycling Rally K-12 Recycling Roadster Community Programs Events, and  Campus Engagements And their Partnership model includes: Boosting Infrastructure Providing Access Working with Communities So in PepsiCo Recycling words - Lets Take Action, and Let's work together to increase the U.S. recycling rate for beverage containers. Every bottle. Every can. For further information, please visit their website at - https://www.pepsicorecycling.com/

 As mentioned on PackagingStrategies.com. With help of Tetrapak, a snapshot is developed which can help us understand - Demystifying the Circular Economy for Packaging. Some of the strategies include Do More with Less Collaborate for Real Solutions Make Smart Material Choices Extend the Life of your Product Communicate your Values Packaging, often regarded as what gets thrown out or recycled once a product is used, presents a particularly interesting opportunity for circular economy innovation. The opportunities for business are bountiful, and most brands are employing at least some of the principles of the circular economy in their operations today. These principles are actually sound business practices, including doing more with less. Credit  Elisabeth Comere

Mondi in collaboration with Ellen MacArthur has created a Project Proof. Its  a proof-of-concept prototype flexible plastic pouch incorporating a minimum of 20% post-consumer plastic waste originating from mixed household waste. The pouch is suitable for packaging household products such as detergent. Project Proof is part of Mondi’s commitment to the Ellen MacArthur New Plastics Economy Initiative. It is focused on designing products in line with circular economy principles and has shown that it is possible to use unclean and raw post-consumer recycled content to create new flexible packaging. Mondi will now develop the prototype further to ensure it can be rolled out as a commercially viable product for its multinational FMCG customers. This will support Mondi’s work as a signatory of the New Plastics Economy Commitment to ensure a minimum of 25% of post-consumer waste is incorporated across all its flexible plastic packaging where food contact regulations allow by 2025. To read full

Coca-Cola European Partners has today announced the introduction of CanCollar®, an innovative paperboard packaging solution, for multi pack cans in Spain.  The move supports its work, in partnership with Coca-Cola, to remove all unnecessary or hard to recycle plastic from its portfolio, avoiding the use of more than 11,000 tonnes of virgin plastic a year across Western Europe.  Innovative packaging design is a core principle of Coca-Cola’s World Without Waste strategy and through collaboration with WestRock, a global company that provides its customers with sustainable differentiated packaging solutions, Coca-Cola European Partners will start to use the CanCollar® paperboard can ring technology in the Balearic Islands, replacing the current Hi-cone solution and saving more than 18 tonnes of plastic annually.  Coca-Cola European Partners has invested 2.6 million euros in its Barcelona plant to support this initiative. The installation of WestRock’s CanCollar® Fortuna™ manufacturi

Screen printing  is a printing process in which we use a mesh for ink transfer  over substrate by using stencil. In Stencil, areas are made permeable so ink can pass and form an image, and areas made impermeable blocks the ink, hence forming a non-image area. A squeegee is is moved across (from top to bottom direction of stencil) screen to fill and open mesh apertures with ink, then a reverse stroke is made which causes screen to touch substrate momentarily along the line of contact. This makes ink to wet the substrate and is pulled out of mesh apertures as screen springs back after blade has passed. One color is printed at one time, so multiple screens can be used to produce a multicoloured image, graphic or design. There are many terms used, which is essentially same technique. Traditionally, this process was known as screen printing or  silk-screen printing,  because silk was used in process. It's also called as  serigraphy  and  serigraph printing .  At present, synthetic threa