Bio-based

Dissolvable Skin Care Wipes Pick Compostable Sachets

For sachet packaging of its new dissolvable cleansing wipes, Australian-based Conserving Beauty tapped compostable NatureFlex films by Futamura Compostable Packaging, as converted by New Zealand's Convex.

January 15, 2025

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Bio-based

Brown is the New Green: Lamb Weston’s Recyclable Paper Fry Bag

Lamb Weston develops a paper bag for its frozen French fries that offers a grease and moisture barrier as well as durability and machinability, while still being recyclable.

January 14, 2025

Recycling

Call for Speakers is Now Open for Packaging Recycling Summit 2025

The event returns June 25-27, 2025, at the Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Las Colinas Resort & Spa.

January 14, 2025

Recycling

Packaging Recycling in 2025: Anne Johnson of Resource Recycling Systems

Global recycling expert Anne Johnson shares a coffee, and some expertise, with Mundo editor and PW Latin America correspondent Lilián Robayo. They dish on trends in packaging recycling, chemical recycling, the anti-plastic movement, and new materials.

January 10, 2025

Webinars

Insights from EPR Practices & Policies

This episode of Recyclability Insights dives into the evolving role of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and its impact on packaging and recycling.

February 18, 2025

Sponsored By: Colbert Packaging Corp.

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Recycling

What Circularity Entails for CPGs

CPGCs need not feel that circularity is sending them in circles.

January 10, 2025

Recycling

Community Poll: U.S. Recycling Challenges

What's holding back U.S. recycling rates?

January 9, 2025

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Dropps Packaging Goes Omnichannel, Returns to Retail

Laundry and dish pod trailblazer Dropps doesn't need to get up on a soap box about sustainable packaging. Its new omnichannel carton range, rolled out in June 2024, sends that message on its own, both via e-comm channels and in the retail detergent aisle.

January 8, 2025

Containers & Closures

Top Articles of 2024, #1: Coke's ‘First in Decades’ PET Lightweighting Project

The #1 most clicked article of 2024: A new lightweighting project reduces the weight of 12-, 16.9-, and 20-oz PET bottles from 21 to 18.5 g. That'll help reduce PET by 3 million metric tons by 2025, but how will the supply chain react?

January 5, 2025

Containers & Closures

Top Articles of 2024, #3: Sprite Gets Naked, for Now

The #3 most clicked article of 2024: Coca Cola strips the labels from its Sprite on-the-go rPET bottles in the company’s first U.K. trial of label-less packaging.

January 3, 2025

Containers & Closures

Top Articles of 2024, #8: How Baileys Paper-Based Bottle is Made

The #8 most clicked article of 2024: An extraordinary network of inventors, developers, OEMs, and stakeholders emphasize ‘progress over perfection’ as they commercialize a breakthrough bottle.

December 29, 2024

Bio-based

Top Articles of 2024, #10: KDP Unveils Plant-based, Compostable Coffee Pod

The #10 most clicked article of 2024: These coffee pods use an alginate-based primary package material with some barrier properties. The system will employ recyclable secondary packaging with additional barrier. Many packaging details remain to be sorted.

December 26, 2024

Recycling

Top Articles of 2024, #11: If Brands Need PCR, Why is Demand for rPET so Soft?

The #11 most clicked article of 2024: Brands made commitments to use more PCR, and rPET is a substrate with lots of packaging applications. So why is it so cheap, and why is demand so soft, especially heading into 2024's 'preform season?'

December 25, 2024