Bio-based

Ten Billion Items of Single-Use Plastic to be Replaced, Following $14m Investment in Xampla

Investment aims to replace 10 billion units of single-use plastic with Xampla's new plant-based Morro materials over the next five years.

September 10, 2025

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Recycling

The Recycling Partnership Invests $4.25 Million in Houston Materials Recovery Facility

The Recycling Partnership

The facility upgrade aims to improve the recycling of film and flexible packaging and gather data to scale these efforts nationally.

September 10, 2025

Recycling

Community Poll: Focus of Sustainable Packaging Innovations

Learn where your peers first focus when innovating their sustainable packaging.

September 10, 2025

Recycling

Futurist's Column: Looking Back to Look Forward on EPR and PPWR

PTIS

Shaped by decades of evolving sustainability demands, the packaging industry now must move from a period of tepid response to decisive, collaborative action to build a circular future by 2035.

September 10, 2025

Sustainable Packaging

Kenvue Packs Purpose into Every Package

From paperboard cartons to PCR bottles and refill pods, consumer health giant Kenvue is redesigning packaging across its 40 global brands to align with circular economy principles and meet ambitious sustainability targets.

September 10, 2025

Bagging & Pouching

SmartSolve

September 10, 2025

Sustainability

Five Ways Sustainability Has Shifted in Just Two Years

A comparison of PMMI's 2023 and 2025 Compass Reports on sustainable packaging reveals how real-world conditions tempered some of the optimism around new solutions.

September 9, 2025

Reusable/Returnable

PepsiCo Kicks Off Reusable Cup Program at 49ers Stadium

PepsiCo launched its first reusable cup project with an NFL franchise this preseason at the San Francisco 49ers’ Levi’s Stadium, with an estimated waste savings of tens of thousands of disposable single-use cups.

September 9, 2025

Podcasts

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

Bio-based

Ten Billion items of single-use plastic to be replaced, following $14m investment in Xampla

Xampla

Xampala's Morro Coating maintains the recyclability of cardboard without compromising on grease, oxygen and moisture barrier properties.

September 8, 2025

Recycling

PRS 2025 Captures Pivotal Moment in Circularity

Packaging World’s 2025 Packaging Recycling Summit marked a turning point in circularity, as brands, policymakers, suppliers, MRFs, and industry organizations move from intention to implementation across systems, formats, and policies.

September 7, 2025

Recycling

Baby Food Brand Tests Flexible Pouch Mail-Back Program

At the Packaging Recycling Summit, Once Upon a Farm shared how its mail-back pouch program is helping the brand test recovery strategies, build partnerships, and gather real-world data on flexible film recycling.

September 6, 2025

Reusable/Returnable

Louis Vuitton, Graza, and Charles Beaudouin Design Reusable Packaging

ThePackHub

See a few examples of reusable packaging from Louis Vuitton, Graza, and Charles Beaudouin from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

September 6, 2025