Unlike food packaging or products requiring oxygen or moisture barriers, some applications don’t need the complex multi-layer laminations that make many films difficult or impossible to recycle.
Recycling
Private Label Brands Target Low-Barrier, Recyclable Films via Retailer Forum
Major retailers including Amazon, Walmart, CVS, and Target are uniting through the Sustainable Packaging Coalition to accelerate development of recyclable, low-barrier flexible films that can meet circularity goals without disrupting existing lines.
October 22, 2025

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Recycling
Community Poll: Challenges with Packaging Data from EPR Laws
Learn where your peers stand on the challenges with packaging data from EPR laws.
October 22, 2025
Cartoning
Born Simple Turns to Retortable Cartons for Shelf-Stable “Better Bowls”
Born Simple introduces shelf-stable “Better Bowls” in retortable, recyclable Tetra Pak cartons. The company says the move combines convenience, sustainability, and real ingredients with a preservative-free, ready-to-eat format.
October 21, 2025
Born Simple’s Terriyaki Chicken Bowl is packaged in a six-layer Tetra Pak retortable carton: four polypropylene layers, one aluminum barrier, and paperboard making up nearly 70% of the structure.
Multipacking/shrink bundling/banding
All-paper, Ultrasonic Welded Banded Multi-pac
Tree fruit grower Stemilt launched in this recyclable four-pack tray for larger-sized apples that encourages purchase of bulk fruit and makes retail merchandising easier in-store and online.
October 20, 2025
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Recycling
FrogTape Trades Plastic 'Cans' for Paperboard Cartons
The painter’s tape brand re-engineered its iconic rigid pack into a recyclable paperboard format. This example of the paperization trend maintains shelf visibility, edge protection, and consumer convenience. The company invested in new forming and sealing systems.
October 20, 2025
The redesigned pack retains FrogTape’s curved silhouette and bold color cues while introducing a resealable tabbed closure. The structure preserves edge protection and on-shelf recognition once provided by the plastic canister.
Recycling
Nestlé, Blossom Hill, and MM Board & Paper Design Paper-based Packaging
ThePackHub
See a few examples of paper-based packaging from Nestlé, Blossom Hill, and MM Board & Paper from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
October 20, 2025
The switch is expected to reduce plastic use by approximately 22 tons annually.
Bio-based
Great Earth Expands Use of Fiber-Based Closures to Entire Line
Swedish nutraceutical brand rolls out paper screw caps across all supplement jars, a first large-scale commercial use of Blue Ocean Closures’ molded fiber technology.
October 17, 2025
Great Earth’s full supplement line now features molded fiber screw caps developed with Blue Ocean Closures, replacing plastic across more than 70 products.
Recycling
Defining “Responsible End Markets,” and Why it Matters to Brands
Defining “responsible end markets” is proving to be one of the toughest tasks in EPR rulemaking. Oregon’s early experience shows why getting it wrong could threaten recycling system stability.
October 17, 2025
Extended Producer Responsibilty's success hinges on responsible, profitable end markets. But what constitutes 'responsible' or 'acceptible' impacts whether or not there's going to be enough pull htrough demand to support circularity.
Recycling
Brands and Converters Align on EPR Data Demands
Converters and brand owners are mapping packaging composition in unprecedented detail. Accurate data is becoming the foundation for EPR compliance, recycled-content targets, and future package design.
October 16, 2025
Scott Byrne (center right), VP of global sustainability at Sonoco, described how converters are taking on a central role in helping brand owners (deemed producers under EPR) gather that information.
Recycling
Could EPR  Smooth PCR Price Volatility, Boost Investment in Recycling Infrastructure?
After decades of price swings that stifled recycling investment, EPR’s cost-sharing model could be the key to reliable feedstock for circular packaging.
October 16, 2025
Jeff Fielkown (left), CEO of the Circular Action Alliance, and Lynn Dyer, Executive Director of AMERIPEN, agree that when EPR is done carefully, with adherence across brand producers, recycled material end markets can look a lot more stable and attractive.
Digital Transformation
Community Poll: AI-powered Sortation Technology
See where your peers think AI-powered sortation technology will reshape CPG priorities and investments.
October 15, 2025
Recycling
AI-Powered Recycling Tech Gains National Spotlight in Time’s Top 100 List
AMP, Glacier, and Greyparrot’s inclusion on Time’s list brings AI-powered sortation technologies to a wider audience.
October 13, 2025
A stream of recycled waste, mostly packaging, enters Glacier's AI-supported robotic sortation equipment.
Recycling
Aptar Beauty, Werner & Mertz and Mondi, and Great Galleon design packaging for recyclability
ThePackHub
See a few examples of recyclable packaging from Aptar Beauty, Werner & Mertz and Mondi, and Great Galleon from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.
October 13, 2025
The pump is manufactured entirely from polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE), including a polypropylene spring, making it suitable for recycling in existing polyolefin streams.
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