Bio-based

Crocs is First to Use Algae-Based Ink in CMYK Packaging

The footwear brand’s Jibbitz shoe-charm packaging is the first commercial project to swap petroleum-based carbon black for an algae-derived pigment for black ink in full-color printing.

September 11, 2025

Business Drivers/Specialty: Page 62

Sustainability

Royal Vaassen

September 10, 2025

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Benefits of Right-Sizing and Recyclability of Corrugated Material at Parcel Forum 2025

Packaging stakeholders highlighted the importance of right-sizing packaging in today's market and recycling rates for corrugated material at Parcel Forum 2025 Wednesday in Schaumburg, Ill.

September 10, 2025

Bio-based

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

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

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

Sustainability

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

Workforce

Zach Gates Appointed General Manager, North America, at OFS

OFS (Operations Feedback Systems)

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