Pete and Gerry's Organic Eggs develops first-to-market, refillable PP cartons that promise years of use with consumer payback after six trips.

When I wrote about Closed Loop Partners’ announcement of a pilot program to test reusable coffee cups in San Francisco and Oakland, CA, I had a few questions about the actual sustainability of a reusable-cup scheme. I was pleasantly surprised when...

This infographic illustrates a set of guidelines for medical device manufacturers and designers established by the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council.

Pilot programs in northern California cities are designed to test the unique material, technical, and operational changes necessary to facilitate a seamless and convenient transition to reusable cups for customers and companies.

As it prepares a report on the recently completed study on mechanical recycling of flexible medical packaging, the Healthcare Plastics Recycling Council launches a new study on chemical recycling.

Improvements in recycling processes and increased quality of materials could result in recycled PET accounting for as much as 55% of total PET demand by 2030 in Europe.

Post-consumer plastic waste was sorted in a multi-step process including initial sorting from post-consumer waste, grinding into smaller flakes, washing, drying, and flake sorting. The resulting purity of polystyrene turned out to be higher than...

The U.S. recycling industry generates nearly $110 billion in economic activity, and is responsible for more than 531,000 total jobs, according to the eighth annual “Recycling Industry Yearbook” published by the Institute of Scrap Recycling...

A spokesperson for the National Association for PET Container Resources (Charlotte, NC) discusses trends, issues and sustainable packaging.

The fast-moving consumer goods sector appears to be pandering to plastiphobia instead of addressing it head-on: Many supermarkets are knowingly taking decisions that increase rather than reduce environmental burdens.