Nestlé (Vevey, Switzerland) announced it will invest CHF 2 billion ($2.07 billion) to lead the shift from virgin plastics to food-grade recycled plastics and to accelerate development of innovative sustainable packaging solutions.

Ampacet’s (Tarrytown, NY) Revive masterbatch additive permits post-consumer and -industrial plastic waste to be reprocessed back into the polyolefin recycling stream.

The American Plastic Bag Alliance, newly renamed the American Recyclable Plastic Bag Alliance, commits to using 20% recycled content in retail shopping bags by 2025.

Converter adds How2Recycle label program for store drop-off pouch recycling with Sustainable Packaging Coalition membership.

Starting this year, SC Johnson will collect PET-based drink cups during baseball games at Miller Park and use the recycled plastic to produce its Scrubbing Bubbles bottles.

In one survey of more than 3,400 consumers, 83% said they felt misled by buzzwords like biodegradable, recycled and recyclable.

Waste optimization leader Avangard Innovative (Houston, TX) will supply post-consumer resin (PCR) pellets to Dow, which will supply PCR-based low-density and linear-low-density PE to customers throughout North America.

Physical property tests reportedly show that low levels of +Restore additive from Riverdale Global (Aston, PA) dramatically improve the properties of polypropylene and high-density polyethylene post-consumer recyclate while enhancing flow and part...

Chinaplas 2020 focuses on tapping into the potential of Asian markets.

The company pledges to get rid of single-use plastic cups and to cut global packaging waste in half by 2030.