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Flexibles

Why Consumers Don't Recycle Flexibles & What to Do About It

Many Americans think they’re recycling flexible packaging, but few do it correctly. New research shows confusion, misplaced confidence, and a possible path forward through consistent language and simpler education.

November 7, 2025

Digital Transformation

Training, Enterprise-wide Buy-in Support Food Safety and Sanitation Efforts

To help end users overcome workforce challenges, OEMs and suppliers should increase their training programs, as well as innovate for tomorrow by implementing digital integration into their offerings.

November 6, 2025

Flexibles

End Markets Will Decide Flexible Film Recycling in CA, Elsewhere

As California’s EPR law advances, experts say redesigning flexible packaging for recyclability and aligning those designs with viable end markets will define how producer CPGs meet new recycling mandates.

November 5, 2025

Flexibles

U.S. Flexible Packaging Keeps on Growing Through Headwinds

FPA’s Dan Felton reports steady growth and rising profitability amid a sense of watchful tension as new state EPR laws roll out that will directly affect how brands design and source packaging.

November 5, 2025

Bio-based

Compostable Packaging Finds Its Footing

Leah Ford of CJ Biomaterials discusses how compostable materials like PHA can gain credibility through proven performance, strict certification, and better education for both consumers and policymakers.

November 5, 2025

Reusable/Returnable

Wild Introduces Refillable Roll-On Deodorant to U.K. Market

London-based sustainable personal care brand Wild debuts a refillable roll-on deodorant product featuring a reusable metal case and a bio-based, compostable refill pack.

November 5, 2025

Package Design

Independent Can Captures IMDPA Award of Excellence

Independent Can Company

Independent Can Company receives the International Metal Decorating and Packaging Association’s award for its “Santa with Reindeer” tapered pail, recognizing the company’s ongoing commitment to quality, innovation, and craftsmanship in metal packaging.

November 4, 2025

Workforce

CAS Holdings Welcomes Gustavo Labombarda as Vice President of Operations

CAS Holdings, Inc.

Labombarda will oversee operations at CAS Holding’s Forge Park location in Franklin, MA, with a focus on efficiency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

November 4, 2025

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

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