Recycling

Colgate & Amazon Turned Recycling Data into Insight; Now Other CPGs Can, Too

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 4, 2025

Leaders (UNIVERSAL TAXONOMY PW)

Podcasts

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

Sustainable Packaging

With EMF’s New 2030 Plastics Agenda Targets, Signatories Pivot from Ambition to Scale

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s new 2030 Plastics Agenda, released today, turns lessons from earlier shortfalls into a pragmatic blueprint for scale. It aims to trade isolated ambition for collaboration, policy alignment, and systems change. Nearly a decade after setting (a maybe too) ambitious 2025 plastics reduction goals, global brands and CPGs are rethinking what real progress looks like.

November 3, 2025

Home

Nextloop Americas Receives FDA LNO, Develops AI Sorting

Nextloopp Americas gains FDA approval for food-grade recycled polypropylene and adds its first regional recycling partner as AI sorting moves into action.

November 3, 2025

Reusable/Returnable

Bold Reuse, Wype, and Tubex Design Reusable and Refillable Packaging

ThePackHub

See a few examples of reusable packaging from Bold Reuse, Wype, and Tubex from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

November 3, 2025

Recycling

TerraCycle Launches Aurora, Ill., Operations Center

TerraCycle officially opens a new 100,000-sq-ft operations center in Aurora, Ill., transforming a historic factory into a hub for sorting and distributing hard-to-recycle materials from across North America.

October 31, 2025

Workforce

Piab Announces Engineering Team Expansion to Its Vacuum Conveying North America Division

Piab Group

Sandeep Somasundaran joins Piab as Lead Applications Engineer to manage the applications engineering group, while Ben Forgue transitions to Senior Engineer – Custom Solutions.

October 31, 2025

Material handling

Mitsui Chemicals Fully Acquires Nippon Aluminum Alkyls

Mitsui Chemicals America, Inc.

The acquisition of NAA, a company that produces co-catalysts for polyolefins, allows Mitsui Chemicals to focus resources on the production and sales of alkyl aluminum and other critical specialty chemicals.

October 31, 2025

Workforce

Accurate Box Company Celebrates Charlie Hirsh’s 75 Years of Service

Accurate Box Company

Hirsh, who guided the small carton manufacturer into a top U.S. producer of high-graphic litho-laminated corrugated packaging, also influenced the broader packaging industry.

October 31, 2025

Digital Transformation

First Autonomous Mobile Robots Roll Off the Line at Rockwell Automation’s Milwaukee Headquarters

Rockwell Automation Inc.

Milwaukee production marks a milestone as Rockwell says it makes it the largest industrial automation company building AMRs in the U.S.

October 31, 2025

Package Design

Krusteaz Streamlines Packaging Artwork Management

Moving from manual packaging artwork reviews to a digital workflow, baking mix company Krusteaz improves collaboration, speeds approvals, and ensures every label is accurate.

October 31, 2025

Recycling

WM Report: CPGs Can Find Brand Loyalty Through Recycling Commitments

Consumers are looking to brands for more recycling commitments and guidance, with many specifically looking to purchase products including recyclable or recycled material, a new WM recycling report says.

October 31, 2025

Reusable/Returnable

Reusable Cup Pilot at Portland Stadiums Relies on RFID

Bold Reuse is testing RFID-enabled reusable cups at Portland sports venues, using digital tracking to make large-scale reuse more transparent and efficient.

October 30, 2025