Policy observers anticipated the 2021 state legislative season would be active, given pent-up demand from bills stalled by the pandemic and ongoing pressure for changes to recycling policy from many sides. The new Arkansas law...

Scholle IPN, a leading global supplier of flexible packaging solutions, announced that their bag-in-box packaging for water passed the Association of Plastic Recyclers' FPE-CG-01 testing, which evaluates the compatibility of flexible packaging with film-to-film recycling...

Polysack, a green-tech manufacturer of plastic film products for flexible packaging and high-shrink labels, has collaborated with HP Indigo to validate its fully recyclable packaging films for printing on HP Indigo digital presses. Polysack enables...

Public and private partners will spend millions of dollars to improve the recycling system in Michigan as part of a newly announced initiative. Leaders on April 19 announced the launch of NextCycle Michigan, which has...

At a recycling plant in Swindon, 80 miles west of London, an experiment to turn used plastics into oil is under way. If successful, the portable “chemical recycling” plants used in the process — designed...

From COVID-19 to sustainability, two experts from ExxonMobil - Francois Chambon, global strategic marketing manager for polyethylene and Etienne Lernoux, senior technologist - look into what the future holds for the flexible packaging market. Growth...

Materials science leader Dow and Mura Technology, a company specializing in advanced plastic recycling based in Teeside, UK, have entered into a partnership to help keep plastic waste out of the environment. The collaboration will...

The Kroger Co. is offering customers a way to recycle flexible plastic packaging in what the grocer says is the first program of its kind. The “Kroger Our Brands Recycling Program,” developed in partnership with...

Berry Global Group, Inc., announced an investment of more than $70 million to support continued growth in consumer packaging films, primarily for e-commerce, food, and beverage applications. The investment supports new multi-layer blown film lines...

This year, Liquibox will be celebrating Earth Day by releasing its first Sustainability Report. With it, the company is publicly stating its mission to inspire change in packaging preference and create a safer and more...

Taghleef Industries Group honors Earth Day 2021 with the theme “Restore Our Earth™” by giving life to “Ti Trees” initially consisting of 1,500 trees planted across various areas, and symbolically dedicated to future generations. This...

Sustainability means different things to different people. Packaging may get some unsavory headlines in the news, but in many cases, packaging materials—including plastics—are a life-saving and/or product-preserving necessity for patients. There are many ways life...

Pregis announces that it has joined The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040—a decade ahead of the Paris Agreement’s goal of 2050. “At Pregis, we’re on a mission to help companies...

Glenroy® Inc., a leading sustainable flexible packaging company and the exclusive converter of the premade STANDCAP Pouch, has announced the availability of Glenroy Sustainable Packaging, its portfolio of sustainable flexible packaging to help brand owners...

Dow and Lucro Plastecycle, a homegrown Indian recycling company, welcome Marico Limited, one of India’s leading consumer goods companies into a tripartite partnership to introduce Dow’s PCR-based coalition shrink films into its line of consumer...

A team of students from the Wake Forest University School of Business Master’s in Management program spent the semester producing the first annual sustainability report for South Atlantic Packaging, ProStar Packaging and Versatile Packagers. They...

In this episode of NothingWasted!, we chat with Jonathan Quinn, e-commerce packaging market manager at NOVA Chemicals. NOVA Chemicals develops and manufactures chemicals and plastic resins that are designed to make everyday life healthier, easier,...

The diverse range of flexible packaging products has made it hard to find the best circular path for some of society’s trickiest waste streams, but a clearer way forward is starting to emerge for the...

When avocados are processed for use in food items, the amount of waste produced can account for more than 45% of the total weight of the avocado. In order to make use of this waste...

NOVA Chemicals Corporation announced its second Advanced SCLAIRTECH™ technology (AST) unit and the third phase of the Corunna Cracker Expansion Project have each safely surpassed 65% completion. The first of eight electrical substations were safely...

LyondellBasell announced the launch of a suite of products under the name Circulen enabling brand owners to improve the sustainability of consumer products. This announcement marks the next step in LyondellBasell delivering on its sustainability...

American Packaging Corporation (APC) announced it has joined Circular Great Lakes as a corporate activation partner, a regional initiative led by the Council of the Great Lakes Region (CGLR). Through the initiative, APC and other...

European household packaging company The Sphere Group is strengthening its position in the UK, with the acquisition, by its subsidiary Alfaplas, of South Wale sustainable flexible packaging manufacturer Sarpak. Sarpak employs 53 people at its...

BillerudKorsnäs’ Annual and Sustainability Report has been published on the company’s website.

Defining what constitutes an advancement in sustainability is harder than it seems at first glance because the scope needs to be defined. What one person might categorize as a sustainable advancement might be rudimentary from...

If a process breaks down scrap plastics into chemicals that are later used to make new plastic, should the federal government consider that “recycling?” What if the end product is a fuel that is combusted?...

Defining what constitutes an advancement in sustainability is harder than it seems at first glance because the scope needs to be defined. What one person might categorize as a sustainable advancement might be rudimentary from...

AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, is the coordinator of the European DAFIA Project, whose aim has been to recover municipal solid waste and marine rest raw materials from the fishing industry in order to obtain...