The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) respectfully submits these written comments in response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Request for Information (RFI) on the Solid Waste Infrastructure for Recycling Program (SWIFR).

The Recycling Partnership’s Film and Flexibles Recycling Coalition has announced its first film packaging capture grant to Listowel, Ont.-based EFS-plastics, a recycling company that specializes in plastic film recycling. The US$200,000 grant will pay for...

Dow announced an agreement with French recycling company Valoregen to contribute to building the largest single hybrid recycling site in France, to be owned and operated by Valoregen. The collaboration is a further example of...

Saperatec is currently building its first recycling plant for composite packaging in Germany, based on its mechanical recycling process for thin-layer composite materials with aluminium barriers. Saperatec’s recycling process currently focuses on composite flexible packaging...

Dow and Nexus Circular announced that they have signed a detailed letter of intent (LOI) for Dow to secure the production output of a newly constructed advanced recycling facility in Dallas, Texas. The new facility...

Recent articles have hammered a drumbeat of negativity on plastics recycling, claiming it just doesn’t work and never will. The arguments are supported by tough love on the data front for the plastics industry, although...

Leading packaging and protective solutions manufacturer Intertape Polymer Group Inc. published its annual sustainability report, which catalogs the Company’s 2021 sustainability impacts and furthers its commitments for the future. The report, titled “Safe, Circular &...

Flint Group Packaging has lent its support to the CEFlex Quality Recycling Project (QRP), co-developing and trialing duplex laminated flexible packaging comprising Polypropylene (PP) recyclate (rPP). Working alongside some of the most established global names...

As is the case with virtually every topic that relates to packaging today, sustainability was a major focus of this year’s E-Pack Europe conference, held June 14 and 15 in Amsterdam. In fact, sustainability was...

The CEFLEX initiative brings together more than 180 European companies, associations and organizations that represent the entire value chain of flexible packaging. To help boost recycling rates and expand sustainable end markets, a team of...

Market activity remains hot as Hybrid Software acquires software technology to accelerate packaging design and a new recycling facility for flexible packaging materials aims to be operational by 2023 in Minnesota. One silver lining from...

Intertape Polymer Group Inc. announces its first published Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) of its Curby Mailer™, an innovative sustainable paper mailer solution. The Curby Mailer is a tri-laminated mailer employing a patented production process that...

Dow, a global materials science company, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with China’s leading food and beverage group, Want-Want, to drive zero-solvent emissions and develop a circular economy for flexible packaging. This agreement...

A former Ward Recycling plant will see £25 million invested to develop a plastic recycling facility for post-consumer and post-industrial flexible plastics. The plant was purchased by Sterling Polymers Ltd, and is currently undergoing the...

NOVA Chemicals Corporation published its 2021 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report to share progress on its ambition to build a circular economy for plastics, advance its inclusion and diversity strategy, and find solutions for...

Performance White Barrier is a new sack paper from BillerudKorsnäs where a coating replaces the plastic film barrier commonly found in paper sacks. The sack paper is on par with traditional alternatives regarding shelf-life expectancy...

New independent research conducted by global sustainability activator Anthesis and commissioned by Viridor, suggests the amount of plastic packaging ending up in household recycling bins is set to increase by 45% by 2035. Viridor says...

California has passed an ambitious law to significantly reduce single-use plastics, becoming the first state in the US to approve such sweeping restrictions. Under the new law, which California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, signed on Thursday...

Ocean and beach plastic packaging and products are among the terms being called out as greenwash by environmental campaign group Changing Markets Foundation. Brands including Coca-Cola and Unilever as well as retailers such as Tesco...

The Council of the Great Lakes Region has today (June 28) released a five-year circular economy strategy and action plan for eliminating plastic waste. As part of the Circular Great Lakes initiative, the council's aim...

While private-sector investors search for returns in the growing circular economy, they note that the public sector also has a role to play. Government policies often dictate what and how much recyclable material is collected,...

Private investors want to turn one of the largest curbside recy­clers in the U.S. into a test bed for building up infrastructure that will be vital to the success of the circular economy. Earlier this...

In 2021, the Plastics Technology Centre continued increasing its activity on the circular economy by presenting 178 projects and providing nearly a thousand technology services to companies, not to mention organizing forty training activities and...

Toppan, a global leader in communication, security, packaging, décor materials, and electronics solutions, has been recognized by German recyclability assessment bodies Interseroh+ GmbH (Interseroh+) and Institute cyclos-HTP GmbH (cyclos-HTP) for the superior recyclability of packaging...

A fourth generation, privately owned and operated, manufacturer of flexible packaging, Admiral Packaging, Inc. introduces a key tool of their GreenVantage initiative, a Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) study. An LCA study is designed to...

Kimberly-Clark Professional, a Roswell, Georgia-based company offering contamination control solutions for cleanrooms and laboratories, has expanded The RightCycle Program, the first large recycling effort for nonhazardous lab, cleanroom and industrial personal protective equipment (PPE) waste....

The Canadian government has published final regulations to prohibit single-use plastics including checkout bags; cutlery; foodservice ware made from or containing problematic plastics that are considered hard to recycle; ring carriers; stir sticks; and straws...

RecyClass Design Book is a practical guide clarifying the concepts of recyclability and design for recycling which are based on a science-driven approach. This document elaborates the concept of RecyClass Design for Recycling Guidelines, and...