Reduced Gas Emissions and Energy Usage Highlight PAC Worldwide Sustainability Report

Continuing to expand its investment in sustainability, flexible packaging expert PAC Worldwide recorded considerable progress in several key areas over the past year. The conservation-focused gains are highlighted in the company’s annual Sustainability Report, which reflects full-year 2023 data, the most recent available.

Among the advances: Scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions, as tracked and calculated by Measurabl, fell an impressive 32.65% to 883.72 metric tons (MTCO₂e). The metric pertains to fuel sources such as natural gas, diesel, designated fuel oils, propane, compressed natural gas (CNG), biodiesel, and renewable diesel.

Another improvement was PAC’s increased use of post-industrial recycled content (21%) in producing its broad line of poly products. The percentage of PIR consumed was the company’s highest in nearly five decades of existence.

In addition, the report summarizes several sustainability related achievements over the preceding year. They include having PAC’s line of stock products tested and certified for recyclability by outdoor furniture retailer Trex’s popular drop-off product recycling program, NexTrex. PAC’s fully curbside recyclable Ecojacket^® packages, meanwhile, also received the “Optimally Recyclable” designation, the highest level attainable by industry group How2Recycle.

PAC Worldwide President Thomas Parenteau said, “Our annual Sustainability Report gives us the opportunity to educate our peers and our supply chain, both upstream and downstream, on specific ways in which we can and are making a difference. This includes our customer base as well as critical stakeholders such as recyclers and regulators.”

Echoing that theme, John Bartell, Vice President of Sustainability for PAC, said, “The goal posts may keep moving due to regulatory differences and the lack of standardization across geographic and legislative jurisdictions, but the progress we are making is undeniable. And the best is yet to come.”