Plastic solutions for Wednesday, 30 September 2026

Today’s headlines about what is working against plastic pollution: new laws, recycling and reuse technology, cleanups and funding. Links go to the original publishers.

1. Purple Planet Packaging to Distribute Home-Compostable Cling Films from N&E Innovations – News and StatisticsIndexBox, 29 Sep
2. How Extended Producer Responsibility Affects Food Packagingift.org, 30 Sep
3. Yukon gov launches rebate on packaging and paper fees for local businessesYukon News, 29 Sep
4. Recycled Flexible Plastics: Market Demand Key to EPR Recycling Rates – News and StatisticsIndexBox, 29 Sep
5. Lactips and SmartSolve Announce Global Strategic Partnership Pioneering Plastic-free Packaging Innovation Across Two ContinentsPackaging World, 29 Sep
6. Microplastics and the law explained: What California's new rule means for plastic policyPhys.org, 29 Sep
7. Builders Vision Philanthropy and Minderoo Foundation join the Ellen MacArthur Foundation to scale alternatives to flexible plastic packagingEllen MacArthur Foundation, 29 Sep
8. Retail packaging’s new brief: smart, circular, automation-readyPKN Packaging News, 29 Sep
9. DENR seeks binding global plastics treaty to address plastic crisisGMA Network, 30 Sep
10. Plastic pollution costs Cambodia $2.5m annually; response launchedAsia News Network, 30 Sep
11. Eutecma acquires Tempaid to expand temperature-controlled packagingFleetOwner, 29 Sep
12. EFS, Merlin, GreenWaste, Valemi get flex film recycling contractsPackaging Dive, 29 Sep
13. Glasgow packaging firm develops software to cut waste and carbon emissionsThe Herald, 29 Sep
14. Building a stronger film recycling streamPlastics News, 29 Sep
15. How Self-Heating Food Packaging Heats Meals Without External PowerNews-Medical, 29 Sep