Stora Enso commits to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 by becoming a signatory of The Climate Pledge. Committing to net-zero emissions by signing The Climate Pledge is a logical step for Stora Enso in...

UPM Specialty Papers now offers a wide range of packaging papers that are designed for home composting. Six UPM packaging papers are now certified as home compostable, according to the NFT51-800:2015 standard. These papers are...

With 2024 just around the corner, we turned to Alison Keane, President and CEO of the Flexible Packaging Association, to get her perspective on the challenges and opportunities in store for converters and suppliers in...

A state-of-the-art facility designed to recycle flexible film, a widely used material that includes pallet wrap, shrink wrap, single-use shopping bags and some food packaging, has officially opened in Rogers, Minnesota. Myplas USA, a South...

Cortec® is pleased to announce that its Cortec® Coated Products (CCP) division in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has won the Wisconsin Recycling Excellence Award! CCP is one of 11 organizations that received the award this year...

Michigan State University (MSU) School of Packaging recently completed a study on food waste that offers insights for packaging companies as they work to keep foods fresh as long as possible. During a November 16...

Effective packaging innovations can help prevent rampant household food waste that eats into family budgets and produces climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions, but a new academic study confirms that too many U.S. consumers don’t understand how...

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...

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®...

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...

The Saica Group has unveiled its Research, Development & Innovation (R&D&I) Centre at its El Burgo de Ebro plant in Zaragoza, Spain. Launched as part of the company's 80th anniversary celebrations, the centre will service...

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...

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...

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...

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...