Nefab
Recycling
Nefab Boosts Sustainable Plastic Packaging Manufacturing with New Thermoforming and Recycling Hub
PolyFlex/Nefab Group opens a 137,000-sq-ft facility in McMinnville, Tennessee, to boost heavy-gauge thermoforming and extrusion, adding integrated closed-loop recycling for more sustainable, cost-effective packaging.
October 28, 2025

Recycling

Recycling
Trinseo Announces Availability of PS, ABS, and SAN for Sale Produced with Indavers’ Chemically Recycled Monomer Through Depolymerization
This European portfolio of PS (Polystyrene), ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene), and SAN (Styrene Acrylonitrile) require no new tooling or requalification and offer a lower CO2 equivalent footprint compared to fossil fuel counterparts.
October 28, 2025
Trinseo
Podcasts
Through the Line Podcast: How Amazon Combines Tech and Material Innovation to Cut Waste
Paul Jenkins, managing director of U.K. packaging innovation consultancy ThePackHub, sits down with Pat Lindner, VP of mechatronics and sustainable packaging at Amazon, to discuss how consumer needs and sustainable solutions often overlap, and the sustainability wins the company has achieved in meeting these priorities.
October 28, 2025
Through the Line: Packaging and Processing
Recycling
H2R Decision Matrix Clarifies What Is & Isn’t Deemed ‘Widely Recyclable’
GreenBlue’s How2Recycle program releases a public-facing framework to help brand owners and suppliers understand how recyclability designations are made, and why not every package earns a “Widely Recyclable” label.
October 24, 2025
According to GreenBlue, the Decision Matrix was developed to address member demand for greater transparency regarding how recyclability determinations are made. Brand owners may submit a package for review only to learn it does not meet the program’s recyclability threshold.
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
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
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 NestlĂ©, 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.
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