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Extended Producer Responsibility: Are You Ready?

Do you know what EPR is, and why it matters to you? Read this quick Q&A to find out how EPR will impact brands in the United States, starting in 2025.

May 20, 2024

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MRF’s Polymer Center Network to Expand Access to Recycled Plastic

A first-of-its-kind facility from Republic Services allows the MRF to aggregate plastic from its regional facilities for further sorting and recycling, resulting in high-quality PCR material.

May 16, 2024

Republic’s new Las Vegas Polymer Center opened in December and is expected to produce more than 100 million lb of recycled plastics each year.

Refresco to Disrupt with Mono-material, Aseptic, Food Contact HDPE/rHDPE Carton

Expected to be on shelves by Q3 is a game-changing new aseptic carton format. While brands swap plastic for paper, reZorce flips the script with circular, mono-material HDPE/rHDPE for paper. Finishing validation, CM/CP Refresco will be first to market.

May 16, 2024

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CAA Provides Deadline Schedule for Brands Affected by EPR

John Hite of the Circular Action Alliance provides a 10,000-foot view of EPR for packaging and CAA, along with important deadlines brands need to know to meet legislation requirements.

May 14, 2024

John Hite, director, Environmental Policy & Public Affairs at Circular Action Alliance (CAA)

Sustainable Pack for Coffee

Private labeler Mother Parkers Tea & Coffee has added the Boardio pack format, an alternative to plastic, glass, and metal containers that it says delivers the same level of freshness and food safety with less waste.

May 10, 2024

A paper/foil lamination characterizes the pack. Rolls of laminated material are cut into four flat blanks that are sent to customers like Mother Parkers, and there at the customer’s plant the canisters are formed and filled.

The Case for Chemical Recycling of Polyolefins

Plastic plays a vital role in protecting food products but chemical recycling is crucial for a long-term sustainable solution.

May 8, 2024

Live at Waste Expo: Brands to Benefit from MRFs’ AI Robotic Sorters?

MRFs love their AI-based robotic sortation systems from the likes of AMP, Greyparrot, or Glacier. They're more accurate, safer, and always show up for work. But CPGs also may benefit from package design and recovery data they're are generating.

May 6, 2024

Brands and CPGs have their own sustainability goals to hit, and data telling them how practically recoverable their existing and future packaging design actually are, in the real world would be worth in gold. AI-based pick-and-place robotic sortation cells at MRFs can deliver that data.

Colorado's Statewide Recycling Program Approved

The Product Stewardship Institute

State gets green light to implement 'medium scenario,' a producer-funded program that provides expanded access to recycling options and aims to double Colorado's recycling rate.

May 6, 2024

Sustainable Packaging

AB InBev’s Four Peaks Takes the Guesswork Out of Recycling

The Arizona Craft Brewer is revamping its sustainability messaging alongside its package design with the addition of CIRT’s digital, location-based recycling tool.

May 6, 2024

Consumers can scan the CIRT QR code on the back of all Four Peaks packaging to access local recycling information.

Greyparrot and VAN DYK Recycling Solutions Join Forces to Revolutionize U.S. Recycling with AI

Bollegraaf’s exclusive distributor in the U.S. will deploy AI waste analytics from Greyparrot Analyzers to boost efficiency and material recovery.

May 2, 2024

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Hotel Amenity Bottle Uses 100% Ocean-Bound Plastic

Natural personal care brand LATHER sources certified ocean-bound HDPE for a bottle for its new Landscapes Collection of amenities for hotels and resorts.

April 30, 2024

The 100% ocean-bound plastic bottle in earth-tone colors with a black dispensing pump is being used for five Landscape Collection hotel products from LATHER.

Nesquik’s New Shrink-Sleeve Labels Make Packaging 100% Recyclable

Five years of R&D results in a new shrink-sleeve label for Nestlé’s Nesquik RTD dairy beverage packaging that is 100% recyclable and provides the required light-blocking functionality.

April 24, 2024

All seven Nesquik flavors will be available with the new recyclable shrink-sleeve label by June of this year.

ALPS Inspection & Cincinnati Test Systems Kick Off the Hefty ReNew Program for Employees

ALPS Inspection

Employee-focused initiative promotes recycling of hard-to-recycle plastics at home.

April 16, 2024

Hannah Hengehold (left), Education & Community Relations at Rumpke Waste, and Paul Hinkel, Controls Engineer at ALPS Inspection.

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Products

A New Closed Loop Recycling Scheme That Allows Brands To Recycle Their Old Corrugated Cardboard (occ) Directly Back Into The Packaging Supply Chain

OCC Recycling Solution

Go-Pak UK and SCG Packaging launch Go-Recycle, a closed-loop service that collects old corrugated cardboard alongside deliveries and returns it to SCGP papermills for reuse in new cardboard packaging.

Recyclable Cup Coating for Hot Beverages

Sustainable, Advanced Odor Control Solutions