Sustainability in Packaging Asia

Avery Dennison Corporation (NYSE: AVY) is a global materials science and manufacturing company specializing in the design and manufacture of a wide variety of labeling and functional materials. The company’s products, which are used in nearly every major industry, include pressure-sensitive materials for labels and graphic applications; tapes and other bonding solutions for industrial, medical and retail applications; tags, labels and embellishments for apparel; and radio-frequency identification (RFID) solutions serving retail apparel and other markets.
 

At BioPak, our vision is a world without waste. 
Founded in 2006, BioPak is the leading eco-friendly foodservice packaging company in Australia and  New Zealand. We offer packaging supplies made from rapidly renewable, plant-based raw materials  for businesses who, like us, want to preserve and protect the environment for current and future  generations.
Our innovative packaging solutions are designed for a circular economy where there is no waste. It  starts with responsibly sourced materials, continues with environmentally certified manufacturing  processes, and ends with disposal options that see resources reused or regenerated. 
All BioPak products are carbon neutral. The carbon emissions associated with the production,  transport and disposal of our products have been offset. BioPak’s manufacturing facilities are  certified to local and international environmental standards. 

BioPak was founded with the intention of disrupting an industry that was ripe for change, and a  significant contributor to the degradation of the environment in the products it produced and the  resources it consumed. 
In 2018, BioPak launched its own Compost Service in Australia and New Zealand – a recycling  revolution designed to close the loop on waste and curb single-use packaging pollution. Under the  service, businesses and their staff and customers will be able to dispose of used coffee cups,  compostable takeaway food packaging, and food scraps in specially designed collection bins placed  at local cafes or workplaces.
Join us in the movement towards a circular economy.
 

A joint venture between ADNOC and Borealis, Borouge is a leading petrochemicals company that provides innovative plastics solutions for the energy, infrastructure, mobility, packaging, healthcare and agriculture industries. With 4.5 million tonnes of annual capacity, Borouge has the world's largest integrated polyolefin complex, with the ambition to more than double its current capacity by 2030.
 
As a responsible petrochemicals company, Borouge believes that achieving a zero waste plastics circular economy requires strong and concerted actions by governments, industry, consumers and society.
 
We continue to provide and further develop solutions that are fully recyclable and aims to add recyclates to its Packaging portfolio in 2020. We are also actively developing advanced mono-materials for the packaging industry, which enable post-consumer packaging to be easily recycled.
 
Our technical experts are working relentlessly to develop new ways to reduce material use, extend the durability of products in applications, promote new designs that enhance reuse and recycling, and encourage the use of recyclates where possible across our value chain.
 
Borouge has also established a dedicated Packaging Circular Economy Team in Singapore to drive sustainable Circular Economy business models. We are working to influence and enable our customers and value chain partners to adopt and achieve their own circular economy commitments to increase recycled content and design their products for recyclability.
 

Lifecycles is the owner and developer of world leading packaging LCA software PIQET.
 
PIQET (Packaging Quick Evaluation Tool) allows companies and organisations to undertake an environmental life cycle assessment (LCA) of existing and new packaging designs. 
 
Designed to be intuitive and easy to use, an assessment can be undertaken in 30 minutes.
 
PIQET now includes indicators of circular economy performance, tracks marine litter potential as well as traditional indicators such as climate change, energy, water and pollution-based indicators.   Critically, PIQET allows for a quick and/or detailed assessment of product waste, including food waste arising from the supply chain.
 
Lifecycles has 20 years’ experience in the area of assessing the sustainability of packaging. 
 
We also provide LCA consulting across all parts of the supply chain, LCA and circular economy training and customised tool development.
 

PEFC is a leading global alliance of national forest certification systems. As an international non-profit, non-governmental organization, PEFC is dedicated to promoting sustainable forest management through independent third-party certification, and providing mechanisms to trace material from the forest to the consumer.
 
Created by small- and family forest owners in 1999, PEFC has grown to become the world’s largest forest certification system, covering more than 325 million hectares of forest area across the globe. This forest area supplies over 20,000 PEFC Chain of Custody certified companies with responsibly sourced forest-based products.
 
The requirements in the PEFC forest management standard ensure the protection of biodiversity and tackle deforestation and illegal logging, while promoting local employment and gender equality and protecting the rights of forest workers. PEFC Chain of Custody certification allows to trace materials from sustainably managed forests through the supply chain to the final product.
 
Responsible sourcing from sustainably managed, PEFC-certified forests is part of the solution to achieve sustainability in consumer goods sector.
 
Choose PEFC, your assurance for responsible sourcing.
 

Toyobo manufactures wide range of packaging PET films from high-performance films with a excellent gas barrier function which help extend the shelf life of food, and eco-friendly films made with recycled resin from beverage PET bottles from consumers. Recycled resin accounts for 80 percent of materials, one of the highest rate in the world, used to produce Cycle Clean™.   is widely used for PET bottle labels and packagings, is a product that can help cut emissions of CO2. The film is 12 micrometers , the industry’s thinnest,  which went on the market with worldwide patents since 2012 and during the manufacturing process and reduce waste by realizing thinner packaging.
 
Furthermore, Toyobo is developing next-generation packaging films for mono-material-packagings, that are easy to be recycled.