Business Planet heads to Austria to see how one large family firm is attempting to turn the problem of plastic pollution from packaging into a sustainable business opportunity. Today's modern economy would not function without...

German sportswear firm Adidas last month constructed a football field in the United States using 1.8 million plastic bottles and handed it over to a high school, earning accolades. It was an iconic demonstration of...

ACC reiterated its support for bipartisan policies aimed at modernizing our national recycling infrastructure in testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change. Keith Christman, ACC’s managing director...

Nothing perhaps defines our consumer-driven society of recent decades better than plastic. Its growth in production since the 1950s – largely driven by packaging – has been extraordinary. We now produce a staggering 300 million...

The United States has stood still as the European Union, Thailand, China and numerous other countries put in place national policies to address the growing plastics crisis threatening our oceans. Finally, the U.S. is poised...

Hefty is making a seemingly unlikely sustainability play with a campaign from new shop Periscope, Minneapolis, highlighting impact from an initiative through which the brand is helping people in select cities recycle hard-to-recycle plastics like...

The sources of food waste are varied and many, from the farm, to the plant floor, to the restaurant kitchen, to the consumer at home. The FWRA’s work is focused on the sources that...

Recycling specialist, Cromwell Polythene is expanding its operations following the purchase of Moorgreen Flexible Packaging from Duo Plastics Ltd. The sale was made to Vickers-Lee Holdings Ltd, owner of Cromwell Polythene, and will enable all...

Rachel Garcia did everything possible to reduce waste. There’s a personal conviction in her family to care about the environment. She and her husband, Daniel, packed lunches in reusable Tupperware for their two kids. In...

Coke, Pepsi and several other big plastic polluters are getting sued for lying about their products’ recyclability and clogging up the oceans with millions of tons of waste. A California-based environmental group, the Earth Island...

A group of leading manufacturers of paper and fibre-based food and foodservice packaging has launched the European Paper Packaging Alliance (EPPA). The alliance aims to find concrete solutions to increase recycling and to reduce carbon...

Sometimes plastic recycling is so much worse than just letting trash be trash. But first, let's thank European supermarket chain Lidl for trying. We all must. Plastic pollution is an enormous challenge. Unfortunately they, like...

TC Transcontinental has created a new Recycling Group within TC Transcontinental Packaging. In 2020, this group will start purchasing equipment for converting flexible plastics recovered from sorting facilities and other commercial, industrial and agricultural sources...

If you think shopping online is more eco-friendly than driving to a store, think again. It may sound counterintuitive, but the more eco-conscious way to shop is going to a physical store rather than by...

As water refill stations become more common, consumer habits of carrying reusable bottles haven’t necessarily kept up. That’s why FloWater, a company that makes refill stations, is now beginning to offer a new type of...

Like many people of her generation, Shelbi Orme, 27, is an ardent environmentalist. On her YouTube channel, where she calls herself “Shelbizleee” (rhymes with Twizzle), she shares tips with her 200,000-plus subscribers about how to...

The extrusion coating market is growing as global brand owners continue to choose aseptic cartons, stand-up pouches and paper-based flexible packaging formats over glass, metal and rigid containers. As society and consumers drive towards more...

Pregis, a leading protective packaging materials and automated systems manufacturer, has joined Circular Economy Flexible Packaging (CEFLEX), a European consortium of companies and associations representing the entire flexible packaging value chain. CEFLEX has established a...

The government must act urgently to stamp out the “curse” of single-use plastic sachets, billions of which are helping to fuel the global plastics crisis, campaigners are warning. A coalition of more than 50 business...

For sustainable packaging, 2020 is set to be a year of action and reaction, building on the fast-growing trends we have seen in the last two years, as subject matter expert Nina Goodrich laid out...

Nicole Doucet and Jess Page were met with skepticism when they first tried to persuade retailers to sell their brand of bottled water. Consumers, the young entrepreneurs were told during those early sales calls five...

Twice as much food as previously estimated -- or a third of all food available for human consumption -- is wasted, with people in wealthier countries wasting more, according to a recent study published in...

For those who live on Easter Island, a remote Chilean territory in the South Pacific Ocean, eliminating plastic bags and other plastic waste has reached critical levels. Although the island is more than 1,200 miles...

You’re trying to do the right thing by throwing away that plastic container into the recycling bin. It even had a label that said it was recyclable, so you should be all good. But unfortunately,...

In case you think that recycling is not having a meaningful impact, given the disappointing statistics that are often published, the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI; Washington, DC) wants to set the record straight....

Amcor’s partnership with the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council (HPRC) will help foster more sustainable practices and innovation across the healthcare industry. Amcor has joined HPRC, a coalition of industry peers across healthcare, recycling and waste...

In Tokyo, a householder consults her 60-page "Garbage Separation and Disposal" system to check whether it's a recycle day for plastic bottles or for all other plastic packaging. In a coastal village in Kenya, an...

Federal legislators propose the Break Free From Plastic Pollution Act of 2020, which puts the economic burden of recycling in the hands of CPGs and packaging suppliers and halts all new investments in plastics production...