Recycling

TerraCycle Launches Aurora, Ill., Operations Center

TerraCycle officially opens a new 100,000-sq-ft operations center in Aurora, Ill., transforming a historic factory into a hub for sorting and distributing hard-to-recycle materials from across North America.

October 31, 2025

Sustainable Packaging: Page 5

Recycling

CPGs Tab Polystyrene as Public Enemy Number One for Next 3-5 Years

PMMI report highlights rising support for recyclable materials and sustainable packaging as a majority of CPGs plan to eliminate polystyrene use.

October 31, 2025

Recycling

WM Report: CPGs Can Find Brand Loyalty Through Recycling Commitments

Consumers are looking to brands for more recycling commitments and guidance, with many specifically looking to purchase products including recyclable or recycled material, a new WM recycling report says.

October 31, 2025

Reusable/Returnable

Reusable Cup Pilot at Portland Stadiums Relies on RFID

Bold Reuse is testing RFID-enabled reusable cups at Portland sports venues, using digital tracking to make large-scale reuse more transparent and efficient.

October 30, 2025

Recycling

Nefab Boosts Sustainable Plastic Packaging Manufacturing with New Thermoforming and Recycling Hub

Nefab Group

PolyFlex/Nefab Group opens a 137,000-sq-ft facility in McMinnville, Tennessee, to boost heavy-gauge thermoforming and extrusion, adding integrated closed-loop recycling for more sustainable, cost-effective packaging.

October 28, 2025

Recycling

Trinseo Announces Availability of PS, ABS, and SAN for Sale Produced with Indavers’ Chemically Recycled Monomer Through Depolymerization

This European portfolio of PS (Polystyrene), ABS (Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene), and SAN (Styrene Acrylonitrile) require no new tooling or requalification and offer a lower CO2 equivalent footprint compared to fossil fuel counterparts.

October 28, 2025

Podcasts

Through the Line Podcast: How Amazon Combines Tech and Material Innovation to Cut Waste

Paul Jenkins, managing director of U.K. packaging innovation consultancy ThePackHub, sits down with Pat Lindner, VP of mechatronics and sustainable packaging at Amazon, to discuss how consumer needs and sustainable solutions often overlap, and the sustainability wins the company has achieved in meeting these priorities.

October 28, 2025

Bio-based

Grove Collaborative, Guerlain, and mountainFLOW Design Bio-based Packaging

ThePackHub

See a few examples of bio-based packaging from Grove Collaborative, Guerlain, and mountainFLOW from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

October 27, 2025

Recycling

H2R Decision Matrix Clarifies What Is & Isn’t Deemed ‘Widely Recyclable’

GreenBlue’s How2Recycle program releases a public-facing framework to help brand owners and suppliers understand how recyclability designations are made, and why not every package earns a “Widely Recyclable” label.

October 24, 2025

Recycling

Private Label Brands Target Low-Barrier, Recyclable Films via Retailer Forum

Major retailers including Amazon, Walmart, CVS, and Target are uniting through the Sustainable Packaging Coalition to accelerate development of recyclable, low-barrier flexible films that can meet circularity goals without disrupting existing lines.

October 22, 2025

Recycling

Community Poll: Challenges with Packaging Data from EPR Laws

Learn where your peers stand on the challenges with packaging data from EPR laws.

October 22, 2025

Cartoning

Born Simple Turns to Retortable Cartons for Shelf-Stable “Better Bowls”

Born Simple introduces shelf-stable “Better Bowls” in retortable, recyclable Tetra Pak cartons. The company says the move combines convenience, sustainability, and real ingredients with a preservative-free, ready-to-eat format.

October 21, 2025

Multipacking/shrink bundling/banding

All-paper, Ultrasonic Welded Banded Multi-pac

Tree fruit grower Stemilt launched in this recyclable four-pack tray for larger-sized apples that encourages purchase of bulk fruit and makes retail merchandising easier in-store and online.

October 20, 2025