Operational Excellence

Popularity Shifts Expected for Glass Bottles, Folding Cartons

Folding cartons and glass bottles are the predicted underdogs of packaging popularity by 2025, after a dismal outlook in years prior.

March 9, 2023

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Sustainable Packaging

Amazon Invests in Female-Led Bioplastics Company

Founded by scientist Luna Yu, Genecis uses organic waste to create PHA bioplastics that can be used as an alternative to conventional plastic packaging.

March 9, 2023

Sustainability

Four Chemical Recycling Pioneers Work to Source Plastic Feedstock

Chemical recycling can divert plastic materials that aren’t able to be mechanically recycled from landfill, turning it into PCR. But different methods require distinct supply architectures to feed them.

March 8, 2023

Sustainability

TricorBraun Signs Exclusive Agreement with BioBottles

TricorBraun

The agreement enables TricorBraun to exclusively offer BioBottles—the first and only biodegradable bottle specifically designed and engineered for the nutraceutical industry—to nutraceutical companies in the U.S. and Canada.

March 8, 2023

Flexible packaging

Curbside Film Recycling Pilot Unlocks New PCR Streams

A pilot program for residential recycling of hard-to-recycle plastic films is being piloted by Dow, WM (Waste Management), and leading edge film converter Natura PCR. The project is concentrating on recoverable mono-material PE films common in households.

March 7, 2023

Sustainability

Packaging vs. Apparel: Who’s Winning the War to Source rPET?

As CPGs shift to greater percentages of PCR in their packaging to meet Ellen MacArthur commitments or other sustainability goals, they may not anticipate that competition to get ahold of it is fierce, and the apparel industry is their top competitor.

March 6, 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

Flexible packaging

Charter Next Generation, Revolution Collaborate to Bring PCR to Food, Flexible Packaging Applications

Charter Next Generation

Charter Next Generation and Revolution Sustainable Solutions are collaborating to drive market adoption of commercially available food-grade LLDPE post-consumer resins for food and flexible packaging applications.

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

Sustainability

Spring Creek's New Egg Cartons Use Bio-PET

Spring Creek’s new Bio-PET quail egg packaging reduces use of fossil fuels while keeping the visibility and rigidity of regular plastic.

February 24, 2023

Operational Excellence

Plastic Considered Least Sustainable Material by Consumers

Consumers across global regions ranked plastic as the least sustainable packaging material, and their self-reported habits reflect this.

February 22, 2023

Sustainability

Pactiv Evergreen, AmSty Launch Circular Polystyrene Food Packaging Products

Pactiv Evergreen

Pactiv will offer its customers foam polystyrene packaging products made with AmSty’s post-consumer recycled content derived from advanced recycling technologies.

February 20, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Alterra to License Technology to Freepoint for its Advanced Plastics Recycling Facility

Alterra Energy

Alterra announces its license arrangement with a subsidiary of Freepoint Eco-Systems Holdings LLC for a proposed 192,000 tons per annum advanced plastics recycling facility to be sited in the Gulf Coast region.

February 15, 2023