Recycling

USPP Clarifies Physical and Chemical Recycling’s Place in Circularity

The U.S. Plastics Pact defines where physical and chemical recycling fit and the safeguards needed to ensure it complements, rather than replaces, mechanical systems.

November 20, 2025

Sustainable Packaging

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Nextloopp is Solving America's Polypropylene Recycling Puzzle

How can polypropylene, one of the most widely used plastics in consumer packaging, be diverted from landfills or incinerators? Packaging World Senior Editor, Anne Marie Mohan, sits down with Professor Edward Kosior, CEO and founder of Nextek and Nextloopp. They discuss how the Nextloopp initiative is uniting stakeholders across the packaging supply chain to enable the closed-loop recycling of food-grade PP.

November 18, 2025

Sustainable Packaging

Packaging Recycling Summit 2025: A Pivotal Moment in Circularity

Packaging World’s 2025 Packaging Recycling Summit marks a turning point in circularity,   as brands, policymakers, suppliers, MRFs, and industry organizations move from intention   to implementation across systems, formats, and policies.

November 17, 2025

Sustainable Packaging

CPGs Reduce Packaging Weight by 5 MMt Since 2019, Report Finds

A joint industry report finds that companies are reducing packaging weight through lightweighting, redesigns, and material shifts while balancing recyclability goals and product protection.

November 14, 2025

Sustainability

CPGs Experience Trade-offs in the Name of Sustainable Packaging

Higher production costs, diminished product quality, and lessened product production are some of the challenges CPGs say come with sustainable packaging shifts.

November 14, 2025

Reusable/Returnable

BoxonTech Appoints New CEO

BoxonTech

As part of its continued growth journey, BoxonTech Group names Niklas Rönnäng as its chief executive officer, succeeding Anders Yllfors, who becomes chairman.

November 14, 2025

Recycling

Coca-Cola, Patrón, and Mondi Design Packaging with Reduced Materials

ThePackHub

See a few examples of packaging designed with reduced materials from Coca-Cola, Patrón, and Mondi from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

November 14, 2025

Recycling

Column: With Recycling at an Inflection Point, CPGs to Shape What Comes Next

The Recycling Partnership

The Recycling Partnership founder Keefe Harrison says that as new EPR laws reshape recycling, CPGs stand at a crossroads. By designing for recyclability, demanding recycled content, and investing in infrastructure, brands can transform a fragmented system into one that works, and one that lasts.

November 13, 2025

Multipacking/shrink bundling/banding

Recyclable Paper Bundling Replaces Shrink

CanopyWrap is paper alternative to shrink bundling film. Atlantic Packaging teamed up with the Nvenia division of Duravant, known for bundling, to make it possible to run paper wrap on what used to be a film bundler.

November 12, 2025

Bio-based

Expanded Capacity for Recyclable Bio-based PE

Braskem America announces expanded production capacity for its I'm green bio-based PE, a drop-in, plant-based biopolymer suitable for multiple packaging applications.

November 12, 2025

Recycling

MCC Receives APR Recognition for recycLABEL its Roll-fed Label on PET Bottles

Multi-Color Corporation (MCC)

MCC’s recycLABEL recognition confirms its compatibility with PET recycling streams while enhancing operational efficiency and supporting a sustainable, circular packaging system.

November 12, 2025

Bagging & Pouching

Wada Farms, Walmart Roll Out 30% PCR Potato Bag

This partnership between Walmart, Wada Farms, and Emerald Packaging places food-contact recycled film in the retail produce aisle.

November 11, 2025

Recycling

Recycling Falters as Companies Retreat from Plastic-Waste Pledges

An article from Chemical & Engineering News reveals how weak markets for recycled plastic are undermining both corporate pledges and recycler viability.

November 11, 2025