Reusable/Returnable

Reusable Packaging Association Brings Reuse Innovation to Center Stage at PACK EXPO 2025

RPA to showcase sustainable reusable transport packaging solutions, host a two-day educational program, and present its annual awards at the Reusable Packaging Pavilion.

September 2, 2025

Sustainable Packaging

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

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

Sustainable Packaging

New Council Unveils Templates that Harmonize EPR Data Reporting

A new coalition of brands, retailers, and partners, called the Sustainable Packaging Data Council, is working to create standardized data templates for easier EPR reporting across relevant states, and eventually, across global markets.

August 26, 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

Bio-based

Starbucks Korea, Innonature Packaging Solutions, and AkronTechnology Release Bio-based Packaging

ThePackHub

See a few examples of bio-based packaging from Starbucks Korea, Innonature Packaging Solutions, and AkronTechnology from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

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

Reusable/Returnable

Video Show & Tell: Inside Clean Cult’s Redesign for Refill and Reuse

In this video, Packaging World takes a closer look at Clean Cult’s redesigned refillable packaging, now rolling out at Target with updated graphics, durable aluminum bottles, and widely recyclable cartons.

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