Saica Natur, the recycling arm of Spanish Saica Group, is expanding its recycling activities in Spain. The packaging group announced the takeover of waste management and collection company Ecovidal-Miguel Vidal e Hijos in the Madrid...

ProAmpac, a leader in flexible packaging and material science, in collaboration with Nestlé Purina PetCare, celebrates winning a 2023 AmeriStar Award in the shelf-stable food category. The win recognizes ProAmpac’s latest recyclable packaging innovation –...

A long-running comprehensive guide to public drop-off sites accepting plastic film has been taken down, leaving a gap in consumer-facing recycling information for bags and other flexible packaging. The Film Drop-Off Directory, which was housed...

Flint Group and All4Labels ('A4L') have collaborated to fast-track innovation in flexo printing through eco-conscious inks and processes. Hamburg-headquartered A4L is already reaping the benefits of more energy-efficient curing after switching to Flint Group's EkoCure®...

Aquapak Polymers Ltd has won 4evergreen’s award for addressing recycling challenges, part of its Circular Success Stories, which celebrates breakthrough projects and can serve as inspiring examples of fiber-based packaging circularity and sustainability. Specifically, Hydropol,...

Cellulotech, the Canadian material science startup, has received an award from Packaging Europe in the Pre-Commercialized Renewable Material Sustainability category. The jury of experts from Packaging Europe announced the award for Cellulotech’s green chemistry process,...

If you’re in the produce industry and looking to enhance your bottom line — and who isn’t — your packaging supplier may be able to lend a hand. Box suppliers, flexible packaging providers and even...

ProAmpac, a leader in flexible packaging and material science, is proud to announce its ProActive PCR® Retort pouches containing post-consumer recycled (PCR) material. This new offering is just one of the many options ProAmpac’s ProActive...

LyondellBasell announced it has made the final investment decision to build the company's first industrial-scale catalytic advanced recycling demonstration plant at its Wesseling, Germany, site. Using LyondellBasell's proprietary MoReTec technology, this plant will be the...

Pregis®, a global leader in high-performance flexible packaging and protective packaging solutions, achieved International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) PLUS certifications at its facilities in Hopkinsville, Ky., and Visalia, Calif. These certifications are a notable...

A breakthrough plastic recycling plant is set to open in Durham with a significant investment from Nestlé UK and Ireland. Impact Recycling will open the new facility to process hard-to-recycle flexible plastics, typically used in...

Clearwater Paper Corporation (NYSE: CLW) today announced a collaboration with Charter Next Generation (CNG) for an early-to-market initiative to include advanced recycled polyethylene in Clearwater Paper's private label tissue packaging offerings. Advanced recycling includes difficult-to-recycle...

New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against PepsiCo Inc. on Nov. 15 for harming the public and the environment with its single-use plastic packaging. According to a press release from the Office...

Channeled Resources Group (CRG), an industry-leading manufacturer of release liners, blank shipping labels, and pressure-sensitive roll label stock, as well as one of the world’s largest suppliers of reprocessed, coated, treated, and laminated papers and...

The world's biggest plant for sorting plastic packaging opened for business on, Nov. 15, which happens to be Recycling Day. Site Zero in Motala, Sweden, doubles plastic recycling compared to the previous benchmark plant, which...

The winners of the Sustainability Awards 2023 – the most prestigious global competition for sustainable packaging innovation – have been announced at the Sustainable Packaging Summit in Amsterdam, during an awards dinner filled to the...

WRAP has confirmed in a 2022/23 progress report on its Plastics Pact 2025 initiative that “regulation is critical to hitting all the targets and this will not happen in time for the 2025 deadline”. The...

Communities have operated recycling programs nationwide for decades, but more needs to be known about how well they create end markets for the materials they gather and the overall economic impact the programs create. That...

Halo is a free R&D partnering platform that connects researchers and innovators with companies like General Mills, Kraft Heinz, Unilever, and others. Through Halo, General Mills is seeking expert collaborators to help develop and test...

Produce, use, reuse - by 2025, we want to design and develop 100 percent of Henkel's packaging so that it can be reused or recycled as completely as possible. This is because we want to...

Aquapak disclosed details of an innovative ‘Prosperity Partnership’ with the University of Birmingham, aimed at addressing the pressing plastic waste issue, which poses a substantial societal challenge. This three-year endeavour, boasting collaboration among esteemed experts,...

US-based Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and RecyClass, a cross-industry initiative to advance plastics circularity in Europe, are working together to harmonise their guidance for design for recyclability. To align with RecyClass guidance, the APR...

Amcor, a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging solutions, announced a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with leading sustainable polyethylene producer NOVA Chemicals Corporation ("NOVA Chemicals") for the purchase of mechanically recycled polyethylene resin...

In an era where environmental concerns are paramount, the rise of post-consumer recycled (PCR) packaging is nothing short of a packaging industry revolution. This innovative approach provides solutions to some of the most pressing sustainability...

AIMPLAS has obtained from DIN CERTCO (TÜV Rheinland), an independent European certification body in the bioplastics market, recognition for its laboratories to carry out the tests that will allow companies to obtain the DIN Industrial...

Amcor, a global leader in developing and producing responsible packaging solutions, released its Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 Sustainability Report. Entitled "The Future of Packaging is Here," the report details how Amcor is delivering on the...

The goal in the plastics industry is clear: The con­sumption of fossil raw materials must be reduced to the bare minimum. But how can our linear material flows be transformed into an efficient circular economy?...

Global efforts show progress on plastic pollution is possible – but the world remains off track to meet the necessary mark. Over the last five years, the Global Commitment, initiated by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation...