Plastics Packaging Association

Plastics Packaging Association (IK) Kaiser-Priedrich-Promenade 43 D-61348 Bad Homburg, Phone. (49) 6172 926601 Fax (49) 6172 926670... 

Risks associated with plastic packages may be increased by human behavior and lifestyle. It is common to get into the habit of eating only some kind of foods, but this may increase the risk of continuous exposure to a specific migrant from the packaging used for these favored foodstuffs. Frequent consumption of fast foods or microwave meals packaged in plastic films may also exert negative effects in the long term. 

PLASTIC EUROPE, Association of Plastics manufacturers in Europe SEFEL, European Secretariat of Manufacturers of Light Metal Packaging... 

GMP Flexible Packaging Europe www.fpe.org another paper on GMP has been recently prepared by the European Plastics Converters Association, Flexible Packaging Europe, Plastics Europe and CEFIC-Food Contact Additives panel and forwarded to the European Commission for comments before being made public. 

In contrast to lower olefins from diminishing resources like naphtha or associated gas, the lower olefins from methanol or dimethyl ether produced from abundant coal or natural gas are attracting attention. Of particular interest is the synthesis of ethylene and propylene from dimethyl ether because of their growing demand as raw materials for polyethylene and polypropylene. The usage of these polymers in everyday life is diverse (e.g., molded plastic items, plastic packaging films, etc.). Increasing demand for isobutene is inevitable since isobutene is used as the raw material for MTBE, MMA (methyl... 

European Isocyanate Producers Association (ISOPA) e-mail belsopal lbmmall European Organization for Packaging and Environment (Europen) http //www.europen.be European Plastics Converters (EuPO) This Brussels-based confederation consists of various national plastics processors associations in Europe, with links to those already online, http //www.eupc.org... 

PP is used in impact modified forms in films, bottles and crates and in unmodified form in ropes and twines. It is frequently present in domestic and industrial waste plastics in association with the polyethylenes. Owing to its pendant methyl groups PP is more readily peroxidised than the other polyolefins and it is not normally separated from them in domestic packaging waste. 

Plastics Packaging Friend or Enemy, Association for Plastics Manufacturers in Europe (APME), Brussels, Belgium. 

In this chapter, we will examine the types of plastics packaging, their fabrication methods, their occurrence in municipal solid waste, environmental impacts (both positive and negative) associated with their use and disposal, and packaging changes that can reduce those environmental impacts. First, we will examine... 

Recently, there has been increasing controversy about the use of plasticizers in plastic packaging materials and the association of these compounds, particularly those in the phthalate family, with cancer and reproductive anomalies. For packaging plastics, these concerns affect primarily PVC and PC. In 2000, a government panel concluded that there is serious concern that di(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) in vinyl medical devices may harm the reproductive organs... 

Eco-efliciency of recovery scenarios of plastic packaging TNO report R 2000/119, Apeldom 2000. Information available from Association of Plastics Manufacturers Europe (APME), Brussel. 

A similar US study in 2014 (Frankhn Associates, Ltd., 2014) estimated that substitution of the 14.4MMT of plastic packaging in the United States would require 64.4 MMT of alternative packaging materials. The substitution would result in 80% increase in cumulative energy demand and 130% higher GWP. 

Franklin Associates, Ltd. Impact of plastics packaging on life cycle energy consumption greenhouse gas emissions in the United States and substitution analysis. Prairie Village Franklin Associates, Ltd 2014. 

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