Danimer Scientific, a leading developer and manufacturer of biodegradable materials, announced it has received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to research pennycress oil as a potential feedstock material for producing polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA), a...

Two bills have been submitted to create a program to improve recycling and refund municipalities, but the sides are far apart on how those goals should be achieved. Maine’s intent to create a first-in-the-nation recycling...

Driven by consumer demand, eco-friendly packaging that uses post-consumer resin is gaining traction on the shelf. But for packaging designers trying to meet extremely specific brand standards, working with this material poses some challenges. Nothing...

Toray Plastics joined the Association of Plastics Recyclers, an international trade association that represents the plastics recycling industry. Its member companies are committed to the success of plastics recycling. In 2004 Toray Plastics (America) launched...

LyondellBasell announced another step towards its ambition to advance the circular economy by making virgin quality polymers from raw materials derived from plastic waste at its Wesseling, Germany, site. Produced by the thermal conversion of...

Michelin says its goal of "achieving 40% sustainable materials (of renewable or recycled origin) by 2030 and 100% by 2050" is one step closer to reality. The French tire giant has successfully tested a plastic...

The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA), the leading advocate and voice for the growing U.S. flexible packaging industry, is pleased to announce the development of five roadmaps to assist companies in moving towards a circular economy....

TricorBraun Flex, the flexible packaging division of global packaging leader TricorBraun, has launched Biotre 3.0, a fully-compostable, plant-based packaging material. Biotre is a flexible packaging film made from renewable and compostable resources, such as wood...

Pregis, a leading global manufacturer of protective packaging, is launching its newest AirSpeed® MINI PAK’R compact, on-demand air cushioning machine, and companion film in the EU. The machine offers a film with a minimum of...

When Rebecca Prince-Ruiz recalls how her eco-friendly movement Plastic Free July has progressed over the years, she can't help but smile. What began in 2011 as 40 people committing to going plastic-free one month a...

2021 began with a rush in many states to consider policies that will squarely impact the flexible packing industry. This year, extended producer responsibility (EPR) for packaging, recycled content, and packaging labeling mandates are incredibly...

Sustainability is a concern for governments, businesses, and people worldwide. According to studies conducted by global business houses, 39% of consumers check for beverage packaging’s environmental information before buying, and 66% of consumers avoid a...

As the packaging industry—particularly the plastic and flexible packaging industry—continues to face unprecedented levels of legislation around end-of-life management and full circularity, promotion of the many benefits of flexible packaging is more important than ever....

Sustainability goals are shared across the flexible packaging industry, so when it comes to finding ways to improve the circular economy, collegiality and collaboration dominate, says Randy Shermet, vice president of sales and development at...

FPA recently joined forces with The Recycling Partnership (TRP) with its Film and Flexibles Recycling Coalition, which works collaboratively to identify and scale ways to collect more film and flexible packaging. As a leading national...

Building on its recent track record of breakthrough innovations to deliver recyclable packaging, Amcor is announcing customer trials of the world’s first recyclable* Polyethylene-based thermoform blister packaging. The new packaging is designed to meet the...

CCL Label, the world’s largest converter of pressure sensitive and extruded film materials for decorative, functional and information labels, announces that another milestone has been reached in providing a sustainable sleeve solution for plastic packaging:...

Flexible packaging leader, ProAmpac, is building on the European success of Rapid Action Packaging’s (RAP) fresh-food-to-go packaging portfolio by expanding into North America. Widely recyclable in paper streams, each product strives to remove avoidable plastics...

MULTIVAC joins the cross-company initiative R-Cycle. The aim is to jointly drive forward the circular economy for plastic packaging on the basis of an open and globally applicable tracing standard. R-Cycle records all recycling-relevant information...

Berry Global Group, Inc., announced its continued leading investments in access to circular polyolefins from advanced recycling to support customer sustainability goals. These polyolefins are obtained by advanced recycling, enabled by the adoption of new...

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...