Bio-based

Metsä Board Awarded EcoVadis Platinum Rating

The company has achieved the highest level rating every year since 2017.

August 20, 2025

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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

Sustainable Packaging

Global Plastics Treaty Talks End Without Consensus

Negotiators in Geneva wrapped up INC-5.2 without consensus on a global plastics treaty, leaving industry, NGOs, and governments urging compromise but pointing to progress that could guide the next round of talks.

August 18, 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

Sustainable Packaging

From Registration to Reporting: EPR Gets Real

At the Packaging Recycling Summit in Dallas, speakers shared real-world lessons from the front lines of EPR implementation, where registration is complete, reporting is underway, and the learning curve is still steep.

August 18, 2025

Reusable/Returnable

Evian, L'Occitane en Provence, and ReBloom Care design Refillable Packaging

ThePackHub

See a few examples of refillable packaging from Evian, L'Occitane en Provence, and ReBloom Care from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

August 17, 2025

Reusable/Returnable

Lisbon Introduces City-Wide Reusable Cup Program

The Portuguese city is the first European capital to adopt such a program, cutting plastic waste for its nightlife and hospitality sectors.

August 15, 2025

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

Recycling

US Flexible Film Initiative (USFFI)

August 14, 2025

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: SC Johnson Calls for EPR Clarity at Packaging Recycling Summit

Packaging World editor-in-chief, Matt Reynolds sat down with Jeff Bezzo, executive director of plastic and packaging sustainability at SC Johnson at the 2025 Packaging Recycling Summit. They discussed harmonization across states as a potential catalyst for EPR compliance.

August 12, 2025

Bio-based

Dutch Juice Producer to use Bio-Based Polymer for Bottles

Hoogesteger signs a conditional offtake agreement with Avantium to use plant-based PEF plastic in the bottles for its fresh, cold-pressed juice.

August 11, 2025

Recycling

Coca-Cola, Absolut, and McDonald's Taiwan Design Paper-based Packaging

ThePackHub

See a few examples of paper-based packaging from Coca-Cola, Absolut, and McDonald's Taiwan from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

August 10, 2025