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Digital Transformation
Through the Line
Podcast: Top Episodes of 2025, #4: AI Chat-enabled Packaging Machine Copilots
The #4 most downloaded episode: As AI continues to grow in its capabilities and prevalence, it may be time for packaging and processing equipment to come with a ChatGPT-style interface. AI chat copilots could assist in alleviating some of the workforce challenges CPGs are experiencing.
December 9, 2025
Recycling
Through the Line
Podcast: Top Episodes of 2025, #5 SC Johnson Calls for EPR Clarity at Packaging Recycling Summit
The #5 most downloaded episode: Packaging World editor-in-chief, Matt Reynolds and Jeff Bezzo, executive director of plastic and packaging sustainability at SC Johnson, discussed harmonization across states as a potential catalyst for EPR compliance at the 2025 Packaging Recycling Summit.
December 2, 2025
Recycling
Through the Line
Podcast: Glacier's AI Tool Turns Recycling Data into Insight
Pilots with Colgate-Palmolive and Amazon helped shape Glacier’s new DataStream platform, a subscription tool launched today that lets CPGs verify recyclability performance and close the loop between packaging design and real sortation and recovery outcomes.
November 25, 2025
Recycling
Through the Line
Podcast: Nextloopp is Solving America's Polypropylene Recycling Puzzle
How can polypropylene, one of the most widely used plastics in consumer packaging, be diverted from landfills or incinerators?
Packaging
World
Senior Editor, Anne Marie Mohan, sits down with Professor Edward Kosior, CEO and founder of Nextek and Nextloopp. They discuss how the Nextloopp initiative is uniting stakeholders across the packaging supply chain to enable the closed-loop recycling of food-grade PP.
November 18, 2025
Recycling
Through the Line
Podcast: Logitech Switches to Paper for Mouse Packaging
How has online shopping changed the needs of packaging? Computer peripherals and software company, Logitech, has nearly completed a transition from plastic clamshells to paper-based packaging for its hallmark computer mice. The switch comes after online shopping and environmental concerns grew in its customer base, meaning customers have less of a desire to see the product while in the packaging.
November 11, 2025
Recycling
Through the Line
Podcast: Kopu Water Brings Aluminum Bottles to Luxury Hotels
Kopu Water is helping hotels and resorts make a sustainable shift by offering a bottled water program that replaces glass packaging with lightweight, recyclable aluminum bottles and pairs it with a built-in recycling system.
November 4, 2025
Recycling
Through the Line
Podcast: How Amazon Combines Tech and Material Innovation to Cut Waste
Paul Jenkins, managing director of U.K. packaging innovation consultancy ThePackHub, sits down with Pat Lindner, VP of mechatronics and sustainable packaging at Amazon, to discuss how consumer needs and sustainable solutions often overlap, and the sustainability wins the company has achieved in meeting these priorities.
October 28, 2025
E-commerce/D2C packaging
Through the Line Podcast: Dropps Packaging Goes Omnichannel
How can sustainability and convenience intersect? Laundry and dish pod trailblazer Dropps doesn't need to get up on a soap box about sustainable packaging. Its new omnichannel carton range, rolled out in June 2024, sends that message on its own, both via e-comm channels and in the retail detergent aisle.
October 21, 2025
Package Design
Through the Line
Podcast: Package Design Plants a Flag for Non-Alcoholic Craft Beer
Summit Brewing’s Nialas non-alcoholic craft beer line uses an adventure-themed packaging design to connect with active consumers and convey the flavor-forward character of the beers.
October 14, 2025
Labeling
Through the Line
Podcast: "Tattooed" Fruits Save Plastic with Laser Date Coding
Laser etching directly onto suitably thick-skinned fruits like mangos and avocados lets Westfalia Fruit eschew plastic price look-up tags with date codes, while standing out on the shelf. Possibilities for unique designs, even 2D codes, abound.
October 7, 2025
Recycling
Through the Line Podcast: Danone's Insight to PCR at Packaging Recycling Summit
Would recycled content in packaging influence your purchasing decisions? Kory Nook, VP, packaging R&I, at Danone, shared the company's experience managing consumer expectations with PCR at
Packaging World'
s 2025 Packaging Recycling Summit. He explains that partial progress like 50% recycled content often doesn’t register with consumers.
September 30, 2025
Containers & Closures
Through the Line Podcast: Paper Cup Melds Finnish Licorice with Forest Innovation
Kouvolan Lakritsi has partnered with Metsä Board to unveil a new recyclable and reclosable paper cup—a packaging innovation that embodies regenerative forestry, circular economy thinking, and co-creation at scale.
September 23, 2025
Digital Transformation
Through the Line
Podcast: Humanoid Robots in Packaging
This episode is a conversation between Associate Editor Casey Flanagan and Melonee Wise, former chief product officer at Agility Robotics. Wise participated in this report while in her former role but left the company in late summer 2025. They discuss the company's Digit Humanoid Robot and new features for connecting with autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), improved safety for human collaboration, and its potential to add flexibility to packaging operations.
September 16, 2025
Recycling
Through the Line Podcast: Duracell's Shifts to Paper Packaging at Packaging Recycling Summit
Brandon Barr, VP/GM at Duracell, shared the company's journey of switching from a 60-year-old plastic blister-pack to a fully paper-based package at
Packaging World'
s 2025 Packaging Recycling Summit.
September 9, 2025
Coding & Marking
Through the Line
Podcast: Coding and Marking Trends at PACK EXPO 2024
Packaging World
Editor-in-chief Matt Reynolds sits down with Senior Editor Anne Marie Mohan to discuss variable data at faster speeds to address the need for 2D barcodes and QR, and white/color printing on corrugated as some of the leading trends from last year's show floor.
September 2, 2025
Labeling
Through the Line
Podcast: Front-of-Pack Nutrition Labels
Packaging World
Editor-in-chief Matt Reynolds sits down with Eric Greenberg, an attorney assisting clients with FDA regulatory compliance for food and food related companies. They discuss what updated labeling requirements may look like.
August 26, 2025
Recycling
Through the Line
Podcast: Sustainable Packaging Trends at PACK EXPO 2024
Packaging World
Editor-in-chief Matt Reynolds sits down with Senior Editor Anne Marie Mohan to discuss trends in materials—paper, bio-based, and compostable— and machinery that they saw on last year's show floor.
August 19, 2025
Consumer packaged goods
Through the Line
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SC Johnson Calls for EPR Clarity at Packaging Recycling Summit
Packaging World editor-in-chief, Matt Reynolds sat down with Jeff Bezzo, executive director of plastic and packaging sustainability at SC Johnson at the 2025 Packaging Recycling Summit. They discussed harmonization across states as a potential catalyst for EPR compliance.
August 12, 2025
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