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

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Recycling

H2R Decision Matrix Clarifies What Is & Isn’t Deemed ‘Widely Recyclable’

GreenBlue’s How2Recycle program releases a public-facing framework to help brand owners and suppliers understand how recyclability designations are made, and why not every package earns a “Widely Recyclable” label.

October 24, 2025

Recycling

Private Label Brands Target Low-Barrier, Recyclable Films via Retailer Forum

Major retailers including Amazon, Walmart, CVS, and Target are uniting through the Sustainable Packaging Coalition to accelerate development of recyclable, low-barrier flexible films that can meet circularity goals without disrupting existing lines.

October 22, 2025

Recycling

Community Poll: Challenges with Packaging Data from EPR Laws

Learn where your peers stand on the challenges with packaging data from EPR laws.

October 22, 2025

Cartoning

Born Simple Turns to Retortable Cartons for Shelf-Stable “Better Bowls”

Born Simple introduces shelf-stable “Better Bowls” in retortable, recyclable Tetra Pak cartons. The company says the move combines convenience, sustainability, and real ingredients with a preservative-free, ready-to-eat format.

October 21, 2025

Multipacking/shrink bundling/banding

All-paper, Ultrasonic Welded Banded Multi-pac

Tree fruit grower Stemilt launched in this recyclable four-pack tray for larger-sized apples that encourages purchase of bulk fruit and makes retail merchandising easier in-store and online.

October 20, 2025

Recycling

FrogTape Trades Plastic 'Cans' for Paperboard Cartons

The painter’s tape brand re-engineered its iconic rigid pack into a recyclable paperboard format. This example of the paperization trend maintains shelf visibility, edge protection, and consumer convenience. The company invested in new forming and sealing systems.

October 20, 2025

Recycling

Nestlé, Blossom Hill, and MM Board & Paper Design Paper-based Packaging

ThePackHub

See a few examples of paper-based packaging from Nestlé, Blossom Hill, and MM Board & Paper from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

October 20, 2025

Bio-based

Great Earth Expands Use of Fiber-Based Closures to Entire Line

Swedish nutraceutical brand rolls out paper screw caps across all supplement jars, a first large-scale commercial use of Blue Ocean Closures’ molded fiber technology.

October 17, 2025

Recycling

Defining “Responsible End Markets,” and Why it Matters to Brands

Defining “responsible end markets” is proving to be one of the toughest tasks in EPR rulemaking. Oregon’s early experience shows why getting it wrong could threaten recycling system stability.

October 17, 2025

Recycling

Brands and Converters Align on EPR Data Demands

Converters and brand owners are mapping packaging composition in unprecedented detail. Accurate data is becoming the foundation for EPR compliance, recycled-content targets, and future package design.

October 16, 2025

Recycling

Could EPR Smooth PCR Price Volatility, Boost Investment in Recycling Infrastructure?

After decades of price swings that stifled recycling investment, EPR’s cost-sharing model could be the key to reliable feedstock for circular packaging.

October 16, 2025

Digital Transformation

Community Poll: AI-powered Sortation Technology

See where your peers think AI-powered sortation technology will reshape CPG priorities and investments.

October 15, 2025