Sustainable Packaging

Packaging Recycling Summit Set for California

Connect and collaborate across every segment of the circular supply chain at Packaging World's Packaging Recycling Summit at the JW Marriott in Anaheim September 16-18, 2024.

February 6, 2024

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Sustainable Packaging

Desert Essence, Neighbourhood Coffee Company, and Albert Heijn Introduce Bio-Based Packaging Innovations

ThePackHub

See a few examples of bio-based packaging innovations from Desert Essence, Neighbourhood Coffee Company, and Albert Heijn from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

February 6, 2024

Sustainability

WM Doubles Down on Recycling: A Conversation with VP Brent Bell

WM just announced a billion-dollar investment in recycling infrastructure. We sat down with Brent Bell, VP of recycling, to see how the money will be spent (hint: AI optical sorters and new facilities), and what it means for pack design and PCR supply.

February 2, 2024

Sustainable Packaging

Do You Know Packaging Material Recyclability?

Quiz 2 of 3. Test your recycling smarts with this short quiz. Each answer has a video explanation from our friends at LRS, with a video facility tour at the end!

February 2, 2024

Sustainable Packaging

Canadian Grocers Join Reusable Food-Packaging Pilot

First-of-its-kind reuse program, designed with a consumer-centric lens to eliminate single-use plastics, combines grocer and government forces into Canada’s largest collaborative reuse pilot program.

February 1, 2024

Containers

CJ Biomaterials’ scPHA Added to FDA’s Inventory of Food Contact Substances

CJ Biomaterials’ semi-crystalline polyhydroxyalkanoate biopolymer PHACT S1000P now can be used in the manufacture of food-contact materials sold in the United States.

February 1, 2024

Sustainable Packaging

Three Sustainability Trends in Cosmetics

Today’s episode is a special market spotlight on sustainability in cosmetics and personal care packaging. Did you know that there are three key trends shaping the segment?

January 31, 2024

Recycling

Column: If Brands Need PCR, Why is Demand for rPET so Soft?

Many big brands owners have made ambitious sustainability 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?'

January 31, 2024

Sustainable Packaging

Consumer Reports Finds BPA and Phthalates in Foods

BPA and phthalates are “widespread” in various types of supermarket foods, according to a Consumer Reports study.

January 30, 2024

Recycling

Supply Chain Eyes 2027 for Switch from 1D GTIN to Digital Link 2D Barcodes

The GTIN 1D barcode has worked for 50 years, reliably making our packaged products go 'beep' at checkout. Poised to take its place is a more capable, internet connected 2D code representation of a GS1 standard URL called Digital Link.

January 30, 2024

Flexibles

Accredo Packaging Completes $10 Million Expansion in Texas

The sustainable flexible packaging company's fourth expansion adds 83,000 square feet of office space to its LEED-certified facility in Sugar Land, creating 30 jobs.

January 29, 2024

Containers & Closures

Sprite Gets Naked, for Now

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 29, 2024

Sustainable Packaging

EasyJet, Never Never Distilling Co., and Schwan Cosmetics Introduce Reusable Packaging Innovations

ThePackHub

See a few examples of reusable packaging innovations from EasyJet, Never Never Distilling Co., and Schwan Cosmetics from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

January 29, 2024