by curgoal | Jun 26, 2023 | Circular Packaging, News
Meet Yibo Su, a member of the Circular Packaging team at Brightlands Materials Center since 2021. Yibo has been working at Brightlands Materials Center for a few years already, as he was previously a member of the Sustainable Mobility team. Currently, Yibo works as a...
by curgoal | Jun 26, 2023 | Circular Packaging, News
Meet Nithya Subramanian, a member of the Circular Packaging team at Brightlands Materials Center. As part of the Circular Packaging program, Nithya is involved in the crucial task of investigating polymers used in packaging, aiming to make them more recyclable....
by curgoal | Apr 13, 2023 | Circular Packaging, News
The plastic packaging recycling rate of Netherlands (57% in 2020) has already met the targets of the EU Directive 2018/852, which requires the member countries to attain recycling rates of 50% in 2025 and 55% in 2030. However, currently (2018) more than 85% of the...
by curgoal | Mar 2, 2023 | Circular Packaging, News
Working at TNO or Brightlands Materials Center was not something Marieke Havermans envisioned herself doing. And yet the drive to make a difference won out over her reluctance. Since the summer of 2022, she has been leading Brightlands Material Center’s Circular...
by curgoal | Feb 17, 2022 | Circular Packaging, News
In daily newspaper Trouw a report on the need for a large-scale system approach to the Dutch plastic problem was published. In this report Harold Gankema, program manager Circular Packaging at Brightlands Materials Center, and Esther Zondervan – Van den Beuken,...
by curgoal | Jan 27, 2022 | Circular Packaging, News
In Geleen, a consortium of companies and knowledge institutes is focusing on the development of fully recyclable sterilizable stand-up pouches for soups and sauces and other wet food products. This is unique in the world, as recycling of these pouches is not quite...
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