Bio-based

Avantium and EPC Partner to Scale PEF Production for 100+ Kiloton Plants

Avantium collaborates with EPC Engineering & Technologies to advance PEF production, offering a licensed technology package for renewable and circular releaf polymer.

February 7, 2025

Sustainable Packaging: Page 21

Recycling

Amazon, Krones, and Sainsbury Switch to Paper Products

ThePackHub

See a few examples of paper product innovations from Amazon, Krones, and Sainsbury from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

February 7, 2025

Recycling

Community Poll: Glass Recycling Challenges

See your peers familiarity with the challenges of glass recycling.

February 5, 2025

Robotics

Workforce Issues Driving Automation and Restraint

According to a Packaging World survey, CPGs are paradoxically either adding or not adding automation and robotics for very similar predictable reasons.

February 5, 2025

Recycling

Consumer Demand for Recyclability Leads to Paperization

Driven by consumer demand for more sustainable packaging, CPGs turn to new materials such as paper and bio-based/compostable plastic, but higher costs, material complexity, and other limitations may slow adoption.

February 3, 2025

Recycling

How2Recycle Releases New Guidelines for Use with Changes to Recyclability for Two Formats in the U.S.

Classifications upgrade composite canisters with steel bottoms from "Not Yet Recyclable" to "Check Locally" and downgrade aerosol cans from "Widely Recyclable" to "Check Locally."

January 31, 2025

Bio-based

Matter, Elliott Absorbent Products, and Treeless Pack Introduce Utilize Bio-Based Materials

ThePackHub

See a few examples of bio-based innovations from Matter, Elliott Absorbent Products, and Treeless Pack from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

January 31, 2025

Bio-based

CJ Biomaterial Receives BPI Certification

CJ Biomaterials

CJ Biomaterials' PHA Masterbatches and compounds receive the Biodegradable Products Institute (BPI) certification in the United States.

January 29, 2025

Recycling

Community Poll: Utilizing Advanced Recycling

See where your peers stand on the importance of advanced recycling.

January 29, 2025

Recycling

Nwär Skin's New Product Line Addresses Sustainability Two Ways

Nwär Skin's new Seid skincare product line both reduces overconsumption and allows for recycling, Packaging World's Anne Marie Mohan explains.

January 27, 2025

Bio-based

Compostable Seafood Shipper Insulation Supports Brand’s Mission

D2C business Wild Alaskan Company ships its sustainably harvested, wild seafood using bio-based foam insulation that is home and industrially compostable as well as water soluble.

January 27, 2025

Recycling

Mura Technology is the First Advanced Recycler to Join Ecoinvent Life Cycle Database

Mura Technology

Mura Technology's Hydro-PRT advanced plastic recycling process is now included in the ecoinvent life cycle inventory database, enabling stakeholders to assess the environmental impact of this technology.

January 24, 2025

Recycling

Metsä Board's QR Code with Recycling Information for its Delivery Packaging Materials

Metsä Board

Metsä Board utilizes QR codes to provide customers with easy access to recycling information for each component.

January 24, 2025