Sustainable Practices

If You Think Plant-based Plastics Are Better for the Planet, You’re Barking Up the Wrong Tree

Jun 04, 2021

In honor of World Environment Day on June 5, the Plant Based Products Council is urging expanded use of plant-based products to help meet climate goals. But there are two sides to this debate.

Polysack Validates Digital Printing for Recyclable Flexible Packaging

Jun 02, 2021

Digitally printed recyclable mono-polyethylene (MOPE) films available globally can replace PET and other nonrecycled pouches, films, and labels.

CG Roxane Expands rPET Capacity

Jun 02, 2021

When its facility in Benton, TN, is operational, the company will have combined capacity to recycle approximately 70 million pounds of plastic bottles annually.

Is This Restaurant's Packaging Sustainable? There’s an App for That

May 26, 2021

Jybe smartphone app with an anti-plastics bias has 4,800 sustainable packaging reviews for nearly 3,000 unique restaurants and counting.

SC Johnson Partners with Brewers and Bucks to Upcycle Arena Cups

May 25, 2021

An innovative program closes the recycling loop by turning cups collected during sporting events into Scrubbing Bubbles bottles.

Bio-based Polyamide Solves Sustainability Challenge for EVA

May 20, 2021

Solvay’s newest offering targets e-motor components, power electronics, and other high-end electrical systems.

Twenty Companies Produce More than Half of the World’s Plastic Waste, Claims Report

May 20, 2021

ExxonMobil, Dow Chemical, and Sinopec are the worst polluters, according to the report spearheaded by the Minderoo Foundation of Australia.

Recyclable Food Packaging Delivers Extreme Barrier

May 19, 2021

New XPP polypropylene is a drop-in replacement for out-of-favor polystyrene for a variety of processes from thermoform-fill-seal to retort.

'Green Methanol' Is the Packaging Industry’s Future

May 17, 2021

Why brands and suppliers should support converting waste to synthesis gas to “green methanol” via the Consortium for Waste to Syngas Circularity.

A New Way of Measuring Packaging’s Environmental Footprint

May 12, 2021

Software as a service (SaaS) tool eQopack measures packaging’s footprint to enable smarter, more sustainable decision-making.

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