Sustainability

With expanded permissions, Pyramid Technoplast integrates collection, reclamation, and reuse into its core manufacturing, handling external packaging waste beyond its own scrap streams.

Eska Leaf: less virgin wood fibre, same performance, municipal leaves diverted from landfill/incineration into value-added substrate.

Designed to bridge lab research and commercial scaling partners, the platform gives innovators industrial testing and market feedback academic projects seldom obtain.

Ban hits cross-border recovered-material supply chains; EU/NA/Australia scrap exporters need new carriers or domestic processing—costs may rise for recyclers and manufacturers.

PureNil 0: food-contact safe, microplastic-free water dispersion; used in beauty/personal care/F&B; billed as first 100% plastic-free flexible substrate.

Backed by France’s (Re)Set, the PaperFlex Consortium targets paper alternatives to flexible plastics and stronger collection/recycling to keep plastics out of landfill, while FMCG partners fund bio-based material trials.

By tying household waste directly to industrial recycling, the initiative gives residents a real incentive to segregate and return packaging rather than throw it away.

Suberin, a natural plant-cell-wall substance that guards birch bark against moisture, oils, and environmental stress, yields a barrier coating with moisture/grease resistance, hydrophobic properties, adhesion, and durability, usable solo or combined.

The Ministry of Ecological Transition’s 4 September decision follows strong local opposition—authorities argued a mandatory system would divert valuable PET and aluminium from municipal recycling, undercutting sorting infrastructure investments.