Sustainable Packaging

Handbook unlocks the circular economy for businesses

Included is a comprehensive overview of the circular economy, including real-life examples and case studies, to help business understand how to implement the model.

December 8, 2016

Business Drivers/Specialty: Page 267

Sustainability

Bausch + Lomb launches contact lens, blister recycling program

Contact lenses and blister packaging can now be recycled through a new program from Bausch + Lomb that also donates to blindness-prevention group for each pound recycled.

December 6, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

What on-pack messaging compels foodservice package recycling?

The Foodservice Packaging Institute conducts a survey to find out how language on foodservice packaging material impacts people’s curbside behavior.

December 5, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

Nestlé in the U.S.—strategically consumer-centric

Nestlé S.A. marked its 150th anniversary this year, so what packaged goods company could possibly be more suitable for this year’s VIEW FROM THE TOP discussion?

December 2, 2016

Sustainability

Advanced vapor vacuum capping technology

With co-packer assistance, major salsa producer embraces new metal cap to PET jar sealing system to reduce package damage and freight costs.

December 2, 2016

Contract Packaging

Contract Packaging magazine welcomes new Editor

Effective January 1, 2017, Anne Marie Mohan will serve as the new Editor of Contract Packaging magazine.

November 29, 2016

Flexible packaging

Stick sachet line helps Almac Group meet pediatric formulation demand

Machinery expands Almac Group’s commercial packaging facility by packing pediatric drug products—powders, minitabs or granules—in stickpack sachets.

November 29, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

Comedian schools Millennials on recycling in new video

Inspired by survey findings that people 60 and over are more likely to recycle, Plastics Make it Possible creates a video with comedian Rudy Mancuso to educate Millennials on the topic.

November 28, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

EPA joins WRAP to promote plastic film recycling

The Wrap Recycling Action Program welcomes the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as latest partner to promote plastic film recycling.

November 27, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

How2Compost label launched

The on-package label informs consumers that packaging is certified compostable, offers direction on appropriate composting, and includes the How2Compost URL.

November 26, 2016

Sustainability

Styrene-Free Medical Device Trays Improve Durability and Product Protection

Eastman’s Eastalite resin material is extruded by Pacur into sheet that's thermoformed by Plastics Ingenuity into trays that yield multiple benefits for medical device manufacturers.

November 18, 2016

Sustainable Packaging

Frain Industries releases 2015 sustainability results

Frain Industries shares results from its “Commitment to Sustainability” initiative.

November 18, 2016

Flexibles

An impact-resistant pouch film also provides better clarity

The SealTOUGH family of coextruded films from Jindal Films can replace sealant layers for equal strength at lower gauges, targeted to replace sealant layers in a lamination or single layers in mono-web applications.

November 17, 2016