​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Arrangement with Veolia to recycle the two toughest beverage carton components—plastic and aluminum—with paperboard makes it possible that 100% of used beverage cartons collected within the European Union can be recycled by 2025.

CarbonLITE (Los Angeles, CA) announced it will expand U.S. operations to meet demand.

ExxonMobil (Houston) is featured in this second installment of an ongoing series regarding a growth spurt for polyethylene and polypropylene resins in packaging.

Waste-to-energy is often looked upon as squandering a valuable resource. Penn State University’s Plastic Fuel Project has a more sensible proposition: “Recycle when possible, but if recycling is not an option, why not capture the high heat content...

A good bet would be that most attendees walking the aisles at October’s Pack Expo were exposed to messaging about packaging’s role in ecommerce more than once.

Plastics Industry Association members find themselves in the crosshairs of activist organization As You Sow (Oakland, CA).

When a company replaces plastic packaging that can be recycled with compostable packaging that may—or may not—find its way to a commercial composting facility, how green is that, really?

Loop Industries Inc. (Montreal, QC, Canada) has developed a technology that decouples plastic from fossil fuels by depolymerizing waste polyester plastic into its base building blocks, which are then re-polymerized to create virgin-quality polyester.

It was only a matter of time before environmental activists caught on that paper cups aren’t all that green—they are lined with wax or polyethylene in order to hold hot or cold liquids, which makes them non-recyclable.

British Plastics Federation cautions against requiring a specific level of recycled content in packaging products until there are assurances that the recycling infrastructure can meet demand.