Open data standard for EPR data obligations
A new data standard has been launched to enable retailers, brands and packaging suppliers to meet their EPR data obligations.
Standardising packaging data
With ever-increasing demands for better data causing headaches for packaging professionals, Sophie Walker of Dsposal and Julian Tait of Open Data Manchester introduce a new data standard aimed at helping the packaging ecosystem meet its obligations and drive sustainability.
Open Data Standard encompasses all packaging materials
An industry-led Open Data Standard now covers all common packaging materials, including glass, metals, paper, fibre-based composites and wood.
Heading into autumn 2023
Jude Allan MIMMM Chair of the IOM3 Packaging Group looks back at what has been happening over the past six months and also forward to upcoming events.
Sustaining signal – materials use in low altitude satellites
Drs Steve Edmonson, Vitor Oiko and Nicholas Crisp at the University of Manchester, UK, on the materials at work sustaining operation of low altitude satellites.
A busy start to 2023 for packaging
Jude Allan MIMMM, Chair of the IOM3 Packaging Group, looks back at the Group’s activities so far in 2023 and what's expected over the coming months.
A green package?
Amid ongoing conjecture on Extended Producer Responsibility and Deposit Return Scheme legislation in the UK, there was much debate at the Environmental Packaging Summit in Birmingham, UK. Sarah Morgan reports.