Sustainable Packaging

Packaging Policy Update & 2020 Outlook

Extended Producer Responsibility, single-use packaging bans, recycling challenges, and other issues related to current and future legislative policy are discussed in this Q&A with AMERIPEN.

December 6, 2019

Recycling: Page 152

Sustainable Packaging

Packaging technologies/products to be featured at TPC 2020

PTI - Packaging Technologies & Inspection

New approaches to addressing sustainable packaging challenges, as well as the latest packaging technologies and products, will be the focal points at The Packaging Conference 2020, February 3-5, AT&T Conference Center, Austin.

December 13, 2019

Plastics/resins

Vacuum Skin Packaging

Point Five Packaging, LLC

Point Five Packaging offers vacuum skin packaging for ready meal solutions. The CPET tray and the film used to the seal product are microwave and oven safe, and the trays are 100% recyclable.

December 13, 2019

Operational Excellence

Food Packaging Dominates China Market

According to “Global Packaging Trends,” a new report compiled by Euromonitor International for PMMI Business Intelligence, food packaging accounts for more than 50% of the total packaging market in China.

December 11, 2019

Sustainability

More sustainable RRP format

Morrisons Supermarkets of the UK has re-launched its Best Bacon product in an improved Retail Ready Packaging (RRP) format.

December 11, 2019

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Digital Print Boosts User Experience for E-Commerce Packaging

Giuseppe Prioriello, Founder and CEO of Italian company Packly, spoke to the Digital Print for Packaging Europe conference in Berlin last week about digital printing’s role in e-commerce.

December 10, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Rising Tides of Waste Spark Quests to Divert, Repurpose It

When the global public discourse turns to packaging these days, the focus increasingly is on its afterlife as a component of marine waste.

December 6, 2019

Recycling

Laws and Norms Both Shape Policy

When you go to someone’s house for dinner, you’re supposed to bring a gift.

December 5, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Recyclable Materials Aim to Keep More Plastics Out of Landfills

Plastic container manufacturers are answering the call from consumers for higher percentages of post-consumer recycled materials and easier recyclability of used containers.

December 4, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

PureCycle Technology Continues to Advance

John Layman, PhD and Section Head Corporate R&D Materials Science at Procter & Gamble, talks about an exciting new method of recycling polypropylene.

December 4, 2019

Recycling

Tuesday with P&G

Procter & Gamble has won a slew of packaging awards over the past 18 months or so.

December 4, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

Coca-Cola Sweden Moves to 100% rPET for All its Bottles

The move is set to eliminate the use of 3,500 tons of virgin plastic each year in Sweden, with a 25% reduction in CO2 emissions over pre-transition levels.

November 26, 2019

Sustainable Packaging

House made of plastic

PMMI

A striking example of commitment to sustainability from flexible packaging waste captured the admiration of visitors to Andina Pack, in Bogota, Colombia.

December 2, 2019