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May 16, 2022
Minnesota Coalition Plan to Recycle Film and Packaging
Minnesota Coalition Plan to Recycle Film and Packaging
A Minnesota-based coalition called MBOLD have established an industry partnership to improve recycling of flexible films and packaging materials in their region. Multinational consumer brands who are members of MBOLD include Target, General Mills, Land O’Lakes Inc., Schwan’s Co., and Cargill. Recycling organizations who are also involved include the University of Minnesota, the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, Charter Next Generation and the Minnesota location of Myplas USA. Myplas USA will build a film recycling facility in Minnesota with funds provided by MBOLD member companies and other stakeholders. This recycling facility is planned as a 170,000-square-foot recycling plant with an annual capacity to recycle nearly 45,000 tons of high density polyethylene (HDPE) and low density polyethylene (LDPE) packaging and film. The source materials for their recycling efforts will include shopping bags, e-commerce mailers, food packaging, pallet wrap, lawn and garden bags, and shrink wrap among many other products. Operations are planned to start in the spring of 2023.
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May 23, 2022
Potential Benefits of Utilizing Graphene-Oxide Enabled Bioplastics in Food Packaging
Bioplastics have been an increasingly hot topic in the packaging industry lately, as the demand for environmentally sustainable products grow. Bioplastics are more biodegradable than traditional polymers, and their manufacturing releases fewer greenhouse gasses. Biopolymers made of a mix of starch and chitosan (a substance found in crustacean exoskeletons) have been studied recently but one promising study from the University of Aveiro in Portugal has shown that reinforcing the blend with Graphene-Oxide (rGO) may yield positive results. When blended with rGO, the starch/chitosan biopolymer had high performance, mechanical strength in addition to enough electrical conductivity for some commercial food sterilization techniques. While this research is still in the pre-proof stages of publication, such results show great promise for the further development of successful, sustainable bioplastic packaging.
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