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

Recycling: Page 2

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

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

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Logitech Switches to Paper for Mouse Packaging

How has online shopping changed the needs of packaging? Computer peripherals and software company, Logitech, has nearly completed a transition from plastic clamshells to paper-based packaging for its hallmark computer mice. The switch comes after online shopping and environmental concerns grew in its customer base, meaning customers have less of a desire to see the product while in the packaging.

November 11, 2025

Flexibles

P&G, General Mills Step Up to Make Flexible Film Recycling Economically Viable

General Mills and P&G outline how brand owners are going beyond EPR compliance by subsidizing film recovery via USFFI and CalFFlex, investing in new technology, and collaborating with converters to build the infrastructure flexible packaging needs for true circularity.

November 10, 2025

Recycling

Henkel, Amcor, and a collaboration of German companies design recyclable packaging

ThePackHub

See a few examples of recyclable packaging from Henkel, Amcor, and a collaboration of German companies from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

November 10, 2025

Flexibles

EPR at the Intersection Between Brands and Flexible Packaging Converters

As extended producer responsibility (EPR) laws take hold across the U.S., the Circular Action Alliance (CAA) is helping producers navigate their new obligations. Converters, though not obligated as “producers” under these laws, play a crucial supporting role, providing the data and packaging intelligence brands need to comply and reduce fees.

November 7, 2025

Flexibles

Why Consumers Don't Recycle Flexibles & What to Do About It

Many Americans think they’re recycling flexible packaging, but few do it correctly. New research shows confusion, misplaced confidence, and a possible path forward through consistent language and simpler education.

November 7, 2025

Flexibles

Live from FlexForward2025: Brand owners to join FPA?

Among other discussion around sustainability, EPR, digital printing, and AI, the FPA's board approved what will be called a Brand Owner's Council, whereby brands and CPGs will have a path to FPA membership and better partner across the supply chain.

November 7, 2025