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Related topics: Packaging The amount of packaging sent to landfill by EU-15 members dropped by 43 per cent in just over a decade thanks to soaring recovery and recycling rates, said the European Organization for Packaging and the Environment (Europen). The packaging body said its analysis has show the volume of packaging waste going to ‘final disposal’ – sent to landfill or burned without energy recovery – in the EU15 states in 2008 was just over 17m tonnes compared to around 30m in 1998. The findings are part of its report- Packaging and Packaging Waste Statistics in Europe 1998-2008.

Representatives of the pan-European PET bottle industry and its supply chain met in Paris on 23rd November to constitute the Forum PET Europe. The federation is unifying the interests of the national PET bottle associations and representing the whole supply chain, from resin production, machinery, bottle manufacturing and recycling, until end of life. Founding members are the PET associations of France (Elipso) and Germany (Forum PET in der IK Industrievereinigung Kunststoffverpackungen e. V.) as well as the company Logoplaste S.A., representing Portugal.The main goals of Forum PET Europe are to create an innovation-friendly environment for PET bottles, to promote

DÜSSELDORF, Germany—TAGSYS, a global suppler of item-level RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) infrastructure, has announced that Portuguese fashion retailer, Throttleman, has received the ‘Best Enterprise Solution’ award from the EHI Retail Institute (a 500 member global retail trade association) for its successful deployment of a supply chain solution built upon TAGSYS’ UHF RFID tunnel. Integrating an RFID infrastructure has enabled Throttleman to increase the efficiency of its distribution center by 60 percent and ensures that stock is quickly and accurately routed to the appropriate stores. Affixed with Avery Dennison RFID labels, items are shipped from Throttleman’s manufacturing plant in India to their distribution center in