The American Chemistry Council (Washington, DC) assesses the New Plastics Economy initiative and finds there’s an emphasis on recycling at the expense of packaging functionality and other aspects of sustainability.
America’s plastics makers welcome efforts to promote innovation and advance the sustainability of plastics, such as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s recent report, The New Plastics Economy—Catalysing Action.In packaging, plastics have a demonstrated track record of helping to store and ship more product with less material than many alternatives. And plastics’ ability to do more with less enables significant environmental benefits throughout the life of a package.
Using less packaging material to start with—often called “source reduction”—helps to reduce energy use, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and waste. And plastics makers are already working with value chain partners to bring about even greater contributions to sustainability, including increased recycling.
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Korea International Plastics & Rubber Show
KOPLAS 2019 will be held along with INTERMOLD KOREA and HARFKO from March 12 to 16, 2019 for five days at KINTEX(Korea international Exhibition Center 1 & 2), Goyang, South Korea. The regions of plastic industry can be seenon the KOPLAS exhibition floor in the exhibition scale of 76,000sqm with 4,000 booths for 900 exhibitors.
KOPLAS show and INTERMOLD KOREA(Korea Int'l DieㆍMold & Related Equipment Exhibition) including HARFKO(Heating Air-Conditioning Refrigeration and Fluid Exhibition) which are supported by Korean government. It is scheduled to be held concurrently in 2019 for three industrial sectors such as plastics, rubbers, mold, heating and AC. It will be a chance to open a new market for related industry such as the interaction between plastics and mold industry and creating new markets where it will endeavor to show the plastics exhibition represented by Asia.
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