The caps and closures industry is innovating around packaging material circularity as regulatory changes necessitating a shift in production methods are increasingly at the forefront of customers’ minds. Earlier this year, the EU’s Single-use Plastics Directive (SUPD) came into force. The directive requires that all single-use plastics have no removable parts and be tethered to the bottles to aid material capture for recycling. “In anticipation of this, our closures in Europe meet these new requirements,” a spokesperson at Aptar Closures tells Packaging Insights.
