Recycling

Policy and Partnerships Drive Can and Bottle Recovery Efforts

At the Packaging Recycling Summit, speakers from the American Beverage Assn. and the Can Manufacturers Institute discussed how funding, policy, and partnerships offer the potential to drive real gains in capturing more cans and bottles for recycling.

September 2, 2025

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Recycling

AI Unlocks New Value in the Waste Stream

At the 2025 Packaging Recycling Summit, speakers showed how AI is helping both MRFs and brands get smarter about packaging material recovery, turning data into better design, stronger claims, and less waste.

September 1, 2025

Recycling

MRFs, Markets, and the Business of Bales

At the Packaging Recycling Summit, a panel of MRF leaders broke down what really happens after the bin, why markets matter, and how brands can design packaging that actually makes it through the system.

August 29, 2025

Recycling

Community Poll: Sustainable Packaging Types

Learn more about how your peers make the decision on where to focus sustainability efforts: primary or secondary packaging.

August 27, 2025

Recycling

Behavioral Science Meets the Blue Bin

At the Packaging Recycling Summit, behavioral science expert Shira Abel explained why better recycling starts with understanding human nature and designing systems that work with it, not against it.

August 27, 2025

Recycling

Material Innovations Seek to Close the Loop

At the 2025 Packaging Recycling Summit, speakers share how they’re tackling the tricky balance between performance and recyclability in new packaging materials, including barrier coatings for paper, molded fiber bottles, and PCR stretch film.

August 22, 2025

Recycling

Agilyx ASA Reports Styrenyx Analysis Shows CO2 Emission Reductions

Agilyx

The report on Agilyx's Styrenyx recycling technology found that using it to convert waste polystyrene into styrene can cut CO2 emissions by up to 86% compared to producing styrene from fossil fuels.

August 21, 2025

Recycling

Community Poll: Confidence in Global Sustainability Efforts

Learn how confident your peers are in global sustainability efforts after the Global Plastics Treaty Talks ended with no consensus.

August 20, 2025

Recycling

Closing the Loop: Molecular Recycling's Role in Sustainable Packaging

At the Packaging Recycling Summit, the Consumer Brands Association made the case for molecular recycling as a necessary partner to mechanical systems—especially for hard-to-recycle plastics that stand in the way of a truly circular economy.

August 20, 2025

Recycling

Stora Enso’s Billion-euro Investment in Renewable Packaging

Stora Enso

The investment Stora Enso's Oulu site converts former paper machines into board lines that produce food-contact-safe folding boxboard, kraftliners, paper bag material, and unbleached softwood pulp, while reducing fossil carbon dioxide emissions.

August 20, 2025

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: Sustainable Packaging Trends at PACK EXPO 2024

Packaging World Editor-in-chief Matt Reynolds sits down with Senior Editor Anne Marie Mohan to discuss trends in materials—paper, bio-based, and compostable— and machinery that they saw on last year's show floor.

August 19, 2025

Events

Packaging Recycling Summit 2026

The Packaging Recycling Summit unites leaders from across the circular packaging value chain — CPG brands, materials suppliers, reprocessors, MRFs, retailers, and policymakers — to explore real-world solutions for advancing packaging recovery and circularity.

June 15, 2026June 17, 2026

Flexibles

New CPG Brand-led Initiative Aims to Recycle Flexible Packaging at Scale

The U.S. Flexible Film Initiative (USFFI) will focus primarily on states with EPR programs, starting in California.

August 14, 2025