Ben MiyaresPackage Design“Fit for Purpose” Packaging: As Yet, Not Universal.Reflect on the evolution of packaging, its increasing automation, and its role in protecting products and influencing consumers.January 16, 2025SustainabilityChanging Science, Markets, Economics Fuel Sustainability Course CorrectionsExplore the evolving landscape of plastic packaging sustainability, including challenges and progress made by industry leaders like Unilever, Mars, and Colgate-Palmolive.August 20, 2024Containers & ClosuresRevolutionary Detergent Washes Away Plastic Bottles in Favor of Soap “Tiles” Stacked in CartonsProcter & Gamble’s Tide unveils dissolvable tiles that clean in cold water and are packed in recyclable cartons, cutting down on plastic waste, water usage, and transportation energy.May 14, 2024Sustainable Packaging‘Historic’ COP28 Summit Foresees End of Fossil Fuel EraA rare consensus of opinion at the event is being applauded, criticized, and dismissed by observers at every point on the climate change scale. That consensus was reached at all was still a surprise for most.February 8, 2024ClosuresComing Age Closures—Beyond Mere Opening/ReclosingIn his 1977 hit song “Margaritaville,” Jimmy Buffett sang about stepping on a pop-top and cutting his heel.October 16, 2023SustainabilityCircularity, Innovation Drive Metal Packaging GrowthRigid metal packaging, already a formidable option for foods and beverages, is readying a new cadre of reusable, refillable, recloseable, and sculpted containers for the 2030s.August 16, 2023SustainabilityGlass Imaginings: Small, Modular Plants; Biodegradable/Biorecyclable ContainersArguably the oldest packaging material, glass is exuding youthful vigor in its recent explorations of new (some would say revolutionary) manufacturing technologies, formats, material characteristics, and product applications.June 7, 2023ContainersBeyond Boxes: Paper’s New Looks, FunctionalityAdvancing machinery and materials technologies are pushing paper beyond the boundaries of traditional boxes, bags, and low-barrier paper packs into the expansive and expanding realm of barrier packaging.March 27, 2023Sustainable PackagingPackaging’s Most Versatile, Sustainable OptionWhat would packaging look like if virgin plastics were made illegal?February 7, 2023Sustainable PackagingCollaborations Focus on Plastic’s Sustainability ProgressI considered making this column a call for the establishment of a new sustainability collaborative. But so many apparently capable ones exist, I've changed my mind. Here are some important ones to keep an eye on.November 29, 2022Page 1 of 3Next PageTop StoriesRecyclingColgate & Amazon Turned Recycling Data into Insight; Now Other CPGs Can, TooPilots 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.RecyclingThrough the Line Podcast: Kopu Water Brings Aluminum Bottles to Luxury HotelsSustainable PackagingWith EMF’s New 2030 Plastics Agenda Targets, Signatories Pivot from Ambition to ScaleHomeNextloop Americas Receives FDA LNO, Develops AI SortingSponsor ContentSide-entry Liquid Mixer Improves Solids Suspension in Large Tanks
