Sustainable Packaging

Opinion: Do We Practice What We Preach?

Have you ever looked into the trash bin at a sustainable packaging conference? Prepare to be disappointed when you do.

March 3, 2023

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Sustainability

Eco-Products Earns Industry First for Compostable Packaging

Eco-Products Inc.

Eco-Products’ Vanguard clamshell is the first molded fiber item made with no-added PFAS to be approved by the Compost Manufacturing Alliance.

March 3, 2023

Flexibles

Paper Packaging Expands to Reckitt’s Dishwasher Tablets

Reckitt develops a paper-based pouch for its Finish dishwasher tablets that replaces 75% of plastic with responsibly sourced paper while maintaining barrier properties to protect against moisture.

March 3, 2023

Sustainability

H.B. Fuller Co. Joins RecyClass

H.B. Fuller

H.B. Fuller joined RecyClass, a comprehensive cross-industry initiative open to companies actively looking to improve the circularity of plastic packaging and contribute toward harmonization of recyclability and recycled content practices across Europe.

March 2, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Eunomia to Conduct Cost Benefit Analysis of Compostable Packaging

Compostable Coalition UK

Compostable Coalition UK engaged the support of Eunomia to conduct the first of its kind cost-benefit analysis of the role compostable packaging can play in supporting a new plastics economy.

March 1, 2023

Flexibles

Shower Cream Refill Now in a 100% Recyclable Pouch

The mono-material pouch, for Japanese company Lion Corp.’s Shokubutsu Monogatari brand in Thailand, uses polyethylene film made from tenter-frame biaxial orientation.

March 1, 2023

PMMI News

AMERIPEN/PMMI to Host PACKAGING COMPASS Sustainability Webinar

PMMI, The Association for Packaging and Processing Technologies

The PACKAGING COMPASS: Evaluating Trends in U.S. Packaging Design Over the Next Decade and Implications for the Future of a Circular Packaging System webinar is based on a collaboration report from AMERIPEN and PMMI.

March 1, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Carton Council of North America Celebrates Carton Recycling Achievements, Identifies Goals for 2023

The Carton Council announces that entering 2023, 78.6 million U.S. households can recycle their food and beverage cartons through their local recycling programs. This means more than 62% of all U.S. households have access to carton recycling.

February 27, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Test Your Recyclability Knowledge!

Are you a recycling guru? Master of municipal solid waste? Find out where you rank with this quiz.

February 27, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

What’s Needed to Scale Reuse?

Founder of the Loop reusable packaging shopping platform Tom Szaky shares four aspects needed to scale a refillable/reusable packaging system.

February 27, 2023

Flexible packaging

Pregis Performance Flexibles Facility Receives ISCC PLUS Certification

Pregis

Pregis’ Anderson, S.C. facility received the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS distinction, a globally recognized system for the sustainability certification of recycled and bio-based materials.

February 27, 2023

Sustainability

Barilla, Tesco, and Landliebe Molkereiprodukte Offer Recycling Innovations

ThePackHub

See a few examples of packaging adjustments for improved recyclability and recycled content from Barilla, Tesco, and Landliebe Molkereiprodukte from ThePackHub’s February Packaging Innovation Briefing Report.

February 26, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Reducing Food Waste Through Sustainable Packaging

Watch the first episode of a new video series: Sustainable Packaging Explained, to learn about reducing food waste through sustainable options in package design.

February 24, 2023