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

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Flexibles

End Markets Will Decide Flexible Film Recycling in CA, Elsewhere

As California’s EPR law advances, experts say redesigning flexible packaging for recyclability and aligning those designs with viable end markets will define how producer CPGs meet new recycling mandates.

November 5, 2025

Flexibles

U.S. Flexible Packaging Keeps on Growing Through Headwinds

FPA’s Dan Felton reports steady growth and rising profitability amid a sense of watchful tension as new state EPR laws roll out that will directly affect how brands design and source packaging.

November 5, 2025

Webinars

AI Driven Material Recovery Facilities: Maximizing Recycled Feedstock for Circular Packaging

Learn how next-generation material recovery facilities (MRFs) and their partners are using computer vision, robotics, and real-time analytics to identify, separate, and optimize post-consumer packaging streams.

January 6, 2026

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Recycling

Colgate & Amazon Turned Recycling Data into Insight; Now Other CPGs Can, Too

Pilots with Colgate-Palmolive and Amazon helped shape Glacier’s new DataStream platform, a subscription tool launched today that lets CPGs verify recyclability performance and close the loop between packaging design and real sortation and recovery outcomes.

November 4, 2025

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Kopu Water Brings Aluminum Bottles to Luxury Hotels

Kopu Water is helping hotels and resorts make a sustainable shift by offering a bottled water program that replaces glass packaging with lightweight, recyclable aluminum bottles and pairs it with a built-in recycling system.

November 4, 2025

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Nextloop Americas Receives FDA LNO, Develops AI Sorting

Nextloopp Americas gains FDA approval for food-grade recycled polypropylene and adds its first regional recycling partner as AI sorting moves into action.

November 3, 2025

Recycling

TerraCycle Launches Aurora, Ill., Operations Center

TerraCycle officially opens a new 100,000-sq-ft operations center in Aurora, Ill., transforming a historic factory into a hub for sorting and distributing hard-to-recycle materials from across North America.

October 31, 2025

Recycling

CPGs Tab Polystyrene as Public Enemy Number One for Next 3-5 Years

PMMI report highlights rising support for recyclable materials and sustainable packaging as a majority of CPGs plan to eliminate polystyrene use.

October 31, 2025

Recycling

WM Report: CPGs Can Find Brand Loyalty Through Recycling Commitments

Consumers are looking to brands for more recycling commitments and guidance, with many specifically looking to purchase products including recyclable or recycled material, a new WM recycling report says.

October 31, 2025

Recycling

Nefab Boosts Sustainable Plastic Packaging Manufacturing with New Thermoforming and Recycling Hub

Nefab Group

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

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

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