When you throw away a plastic container, how do you decide whether to toss it in the trash or into a recycling bin? If you find the choice puzzling, you’re not alone. A 2014 poll...

Bobst has become a member of CEFLEX (Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging), the collaborative initiative of a European consortium of companies and associations representing the entire value chain of flexible packaging. The CEFLEX mission is...

For decades, Americans have been sorting their trash believing that most plastic could be recycled. But the truth is, the vast majority of all plastic produced can't be or won't be recycled. In 40 years,...

The packaging business community is dealing with the unprecedented coronavirus (COVID-19) situation with both urgency and a deep sense of care. With many people working from home, Bobst is providing an in-depth look at the...

The American Chemistry Council’s Plastics Division has announced a set of principles for mass balance certification standards that are designed to trace and help increase plastics recycling as well as support markets for the outputs...

Reducing waste in the fruit industry and taking care of the environment has been a central goal of the industry worldwide, and Chile's new biodegradable plastic has been developed to further those efforts. The innovation...

At the CPA Annual Meeting, FPA President Alison Keane shares how the organization is working to help shape legislation around plastic packaging, rather than just react to it. There is a global war on plastics...

Four years after becoming the state’s first municipality to ban the use of plastic bags and impose fees for acquiring others at grocery stores, Cambridge this week issued an emergency order temporarily forbidding the use...

Plastic has become ubiquitous in modern life. It keeps our food from spoiling, helps us transport goods with less energy and less breakage than other materials, makes our vehicles lighter and more energy efficient, and...

Some species are named after beloved teen activists or Lady Gaga. Others are named after plastic. Before science even discovered this deep-sea crustacean, plastic had infiltrated its stomach. So scientists named it accordingly. Meet Eurythenes...

As states rush to lift, waive, or delay regulations that might impede their ability to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, plastic bag bans are being tossed aside. On Tuesday, Maine's legislature voted to put off...

Recyclable plastic bags don’t pose the potential health risks associated with alternative bags. Hundreds of millions of petroleum based, “non-woven polypropylene” reusable bags are imported from China and other countries each year. These are, by...

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $25 million in funding for plastics recycling research and development. The funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is part of the department’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, a comprehensive program...

An Aussie teenager has come up with an innovative solution to tackle single-use plastic packaging. Angelina Arora, has used prawn shells to create a plastic alternative that can decompose in landfill after a month or...

We know you have many questions about the coronavirus and we're going to keep getting you answers. One question that keeps popping up has to do with the new plastic bag ban. You've sent a...

UK-headquartered international packaging business DS Smith has opened its first recycling facility in the US in Reading, Pennsylvania. The new 43,000ft2 facility is located adjacent to one of the company’s paper mills and within a...

In November 2017, the BBC aired Episode Four of the Blue Planet II, “Big Blue,” which was seen by 14 million viewers. Presented by Sir David Attenborough, the episode bombarded watchers with footage of birds...

The COVID-19 outbreak is giving new meaning to those “sustainable” shopping bags that politicians and environmentalists have been so eager to impose on the public. These reusable tote bags can sustain the COVID-19 and flu...

Produce, use, and throw away? No, better reduce, reuse, and recycle, says the EU. The paradigm of the current linear economic model could be coming to an end, replaced by a circular economy, a system...

A Washington State University research team has found that nanoscale particles of the most commonly used plastics tend to move through the water supply, especially in fresh water, or settle out in wastewater treatment plants,...

Tim Sykes talks to Alexander Baumgartner, CEO of Constantia Flexibles, to hear his frank thoughts about how the industry can move forward in the most sustainable manner.

The use of RESIN8 blocks creates demand for formerly landfill-bound mixed plastics and diverts plastic waste from otherwise escaping waste collection and going back into the environment. Braskem, one of the largest polyolefins producers in...

Chemicals company Clariant has teamed up with Lavergne, a producer of sustainable engineering resin from recycled ocean-bound plastics, to develop halogen-free, flame-retardant polyester compounds made from ocean-bound plastics. With the first grade already commercialized, the...

With brand owners under duress to reduce packaging and the use of plastics in particular, it is exciting to see how industry is responding to this environmental crisis. Daily, we see reports of new mono-material...

Charter NEX Films, North America’s leading independent producer of specialty films, proudly announces they have joined the Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) and their participation in the APR’s Demand Champions program. The APR is an...

Peter Fallat, Director of Global Design & Packaging at Hill’s Pet Nutrition, a Colgate-Palmolive company, discusses how flexible films fit into the drive for more sustainable packaging.

If you’re a Boisean who has recycled plastics in an orange bag recently, they probably didn’t go to Salt Lake City and get turned into diesel fuel as you were once told they would. Renewlogy,...

Across the world, sea turtles are swallowing bits of plastic in the ocean and often dying as a result. There are many theories about why sea turtles and other marine animals ingest plastic. Some people...