Bio-based

Lignin Wins Two Awards at Scanpack

Lignin Industries' e-commerce bag won both the Biomaterial-Based Packaging award and the Packnorth Special Price at the Scanpack event, recognizing its sustainable and functional design.

January 17, 2025

Sustainable Packaging

Bio-based

Celanese and Henkel Collaborate to Offer Adhesives Made from Captured CO2 Emissions

Celanese Corporation

Henkel and Celanese partner to develop water-based adhesives made from carbon capture-based materials, enabling customers to increase the renewable content of their products.

January 17, 2025

Recycling

FFRA Launches Plastic Film Recycling Directory

FFRA resource aims to increase consumer access to recycling collection points and plastic film recycling rates by providing clear information on responsible recycling practices.

January 17, 2025

Recycling

AMERIPEN's Packaging Policy Update & 2025 Outlook

In this annual Q&A, AMERIPEN Policy and Membership Director Rob Keith and the association’s principle lobbyist, Andy Hackman of Serlin Haley, provide updates on current state and federal packaging policy along with insights on what to expect in the coming

January 16, 2025

Reusable/Returnable

Chicago Bears, Fresh Del Monte, and Gerlon Introduce Reusable and Refillable Packaging Innovations

ThePackHub

See a few examples of reusable and refillable packaging innovations from Chicago Bears, Fresh Del Monte, and Gerlon from ThePackHub’s Innovation Zone.

January 16, 2025

Bio-based

Dissolvable Skin Care Wipes Pick Compostable Sachets

For sachet packaging of its new dissolvable cleansing wipes, Australian-based Conserving Beauty tapped compostable NatureFlex films by Futamura Compostable Packaging, as converted by New Zealand's Convex.

January 15, 2025

Bio-based

Brown is the New Green: Lamb Weston’s Recyclable Paper Fry Bag

Lamb Weston develops a paper bag for its frozen French fries that offers a grease and moisture barrier as well as durability and machinability, while still being recyclable.

January 14, 2025

Recycling

Call for Speakers is Now Open for Packaging Recycling Summit 2025

The event returns June 25-27, 2025, at the Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Las Colinas Resort & Spa.

January 14, 2025

Recycling

Packaging Recycling in 2025: Anne Johnson of Resource Recycling Systems

Global recycling expert Anne Johnson shares a coffee, and some expertise, with Mundo editor and PW Latin America correspondent Lilián Robayo. They dish on trends in packaging recycling, chemical recycling, the anti-plastic movement, and new materials.

January 10, 2025

Webinars

Insights from EPR Practices & Policies

This episode of Recyclability Insights dives into the evolving role of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and its impact on packaging and recycling.

February 18, 2025

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Recycling

What Circularity Entails for CPGs

CPGCs need not feel that circularity is sending them in circles.

January 10, 2025

E-commerce/D2C packaging

Dropps Packaging Goes Omnichannel, Returns to Retail

Laundry and dish pod trailblazer Dropps doesn't need to get up on a soap box about sustainable packaging. Its new omnichannel carton range, rolled out in June 2024, sends that message on its own, both via e-comm channels and in the retail detergent aisle.

January 8, 2025

Containers & Closures

Top Articles of 2024, #1: Coke's ‘First in Decades’ PET Lightweighting Project

The #1 most clicked article of 2024: A new lightweighting project reduces the weight of 12-, 16.9-, and 20-oz PET bottles from 21 to 18.5 g. That'll help reduce PET by 3 million metric tons by 2025, but how will the supply chain react?

January 5, 2025