Sustainability

Aluminum Pods Are Just the Ticket for Clever ‘Spice Passport’

Burlap & Barrel adopts Occo Spices’ innovative aluminum pod and paperboard sleeve packaging to create a sample pack of single-serve, single-origin spices for use when traveling.

March 8, 2023

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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

Multipacks/handles/carriers

Graphic Packaging Named One of the World’s Most Innovative Companies in 2023

Graphic Packaging International

Graphic Packaging International’s passion for innovation lead to the fiber-based consumer packaging leader’s being on Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies for 2023.

March 6, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Opinion: Do We Practice What We Preach?

Have you ever looked into the trash bin at a sustainable packaging conference? Prepare to be disappointed when you do.

March 3, 2023

Sustainability

Eco-Products Earns Industry First for Compostable Packaging

Eco-Products Inc.

Eco-Products’ Vanguard clamshell is the first molded fiber item made with no-added PFAS to be approved by the Compost Manufacturing Alliance.

March 3, 2023

Flexibles

Paper Packaging Expands to Reckitt’s Dishwasher Tablets

Reckitt develops a paper-based pouch for its Finish dishwasher tablets that replaces 75% of plastic with responsibly sourced paper while maintaining barrier properties to protect against moisture.

March 3, 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

Flexibles

Shower Cream Refill Now in a 100% Recyclable Pouch

The mono-material pouch, for Japanese company Lion Corp.’s Shokubutsu Monogatari brand in Thailand, uses polyethylene film made from tenter-frame biaxial orientation.

March 1, 2023

Secondary Packaging

Format Mix Shift Precipitates Speedier Canning Automation

Retail-friendly cans were already hot in craft brew when pandemic-related venue closures accelerated the trend. Dust Bowl Brewing Co.’s increased, sustained reliance on this container format convinced management to double down on canning automation.

February 27, 2023

Sustainable Packaging

Carton Council of North America Celebrates Carton Recycling Achievements, Identifies Goals for 2023

The Carton Council announces that entering 2023, 78.6 million U.S. households can recycle their food and beverage cartons through their local recycling programs. This means more than 62% of all U.S. households have access to carton recycling.

February 27, 2023