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Video: Google's Open Packaging Revolution, Plastic-Free and Secret-Free

In this exclusive interview with Google's packaging innovation leader, Miguel Arévalo, discover how a collaborative, non-competitive paradigm offers significant lessons to our industry in sustainability and plastic-free packaging.

June 12, 2025

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Recycling

Live at GS1: RFID-Tagged Corrugated Gains Momentum in Recycling, EPR Compliance

Using RFID can divert from corrugated from landfill, improve PCR stock, and help with EPR complaince, according to John Dwyer, Smurfit WestRock, and Curt Schacker, Track Vision AI, at GS1 Connect 2025 in Nashville.

June 11, 2025

Recycling

Live at Product Stewardship Institute's Forum: Enter a Pro-Business EPR Model for Packaging Recovery

Tennessee’s Waste to Jobs Act flips the script on packaging EPR—offering CPGs a market-driven path to more recycled content, lower material costs, and less regulatory friction. Brand owners are invited to help shape it now, before mandates take hold.

June 10, 2025

Recycling

Live from Product Stewardship Institute's Forum: Dylan de Thomas on Laws Going Live, Key Deadlines, and Industry Guidance

States ramp up EPR laws with Oregon’s taking effect in 2025, followed by Colorado and California. As harmonization grows, producers are urged to register with the Circular Action Alliance to understand and meet new packaging compliance rules.

June 9, 2025

Recycling

Starbucks, Marks & Spencer, and Lecta Switch to Paper-based Packaging

ThePackHub

See a few examples of the switch to paper packaging from Starbucks, Marks & Spencer, and Lecta from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

June 9, 2025

Recycling

Nextloopp: Solving America's Polypropylene Recycling Puzzle

In this exclusive interview, Professor Edward Kosior shares how Nextloopp is building a collaborative, science-driven model to bring food-grade recycled polypropylene to scale in the U.S. and beyond.

June 4, 2025

Flexibles

Kraft Heinz Eyes Super-spatial Atomic Layer Deposition Barrier Tech

Kraft Heinz crowned Kalpana Systems—a Dutch technologist behind a ‘thin film with the precision of a single atom’—as the winner of Rethinking Materials’ recent Global Innovation Challenge. The emerging tech delivers advanced oxygen and moisture barriers to otherwise recyclable paper or mono-PE, without impacting recyclability.

June 3, 2025

Recycling

Community Poll: How2Recycle's Updated Label

Learn where your peers stand on the updated label's ability to provide clarity to the consumer.

June 3, 2025

Recycling

CPGs Advance in PCR Use, Despite Missing 2025 Goals

An AMERIPEN study reveals that while packaging recycling rates and capacity are improving, meeting 2025 sustainability goals remains challenging due to persistent supply gaps.

May 30, 2025

Recycling

Pepsi Pushes Back Sustainable Packaging Goals

PepsiCo has significantly scaled back its sustainable packaging goals, including targets for virgin plastic reduction and increased recycled content usage.

May 27, 2025

Recycling

Community Poll: Ensuring Safety Downstream

Learn what your peers are doing to ensure safety downstream when designing packaging.

May 27, 2025

Sustainable Packaging

Survey: Brands Embrace Paper Packaging to Boost Sustainability and Reputation

According to Packaging World’s inaugural Annual Outlook Report survey, recyclability tops the list of CPG packaging priorities, with paper emerging as the front-runner.

May 27, 2025

Recycling

CPGs Say On-Pack Labels are Ineffective at Communicating Recycling Instructions to Consumers

Packaging World surveys show CPGs are designing packaging for recyclability within existing infrastructure, but on-pack recycling guidelines have been ineffective for consumers. Upcoming updates to How2Recycle labels aim to address this issue.

May 22, 2025