Sustainability: Page 3

  • A view of vendor displays on the show floor at Pack Expo East at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia on March 20, 2024.
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    Packaging trade shows to watch in 2025

    Mark your calendar: These U.S. conferences and events will cover timely trends in sustainable packaging design, recycling technologies, regional market trends, substrate evolutions, automation and more.

    By Packaging Dive Staff • Updated Jan. 3, 2025
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    Insights from the 2024 Packaging Recycling Summit

    AI applications, recycled plastic supply and demand, and how brands are thinking about extended producer responsibility were among the topics Packaging Dive covered from this year’s event in California.

    By • Sept. 27, 2024
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    Nespresso spotlights aluminum in marketing campaign

    The Nestlé coffee brand timed the campaign to New York's Climate Week as it seeks to position itself as a more sustainable format than other single-use coffee products.

    By Sara Karlovitch • Sept. 27, 2024
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    Packaging innovations: Bottle material changes from Albertsons and Johnnie Walker

    Plus, Cambio Roasters and Glatfelter debut new coffee pod packaging, while Sleever partners with Carbios for a biodegradable shrink sleeve.

    By • Sept. 27, 2024
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    Home Depot phases out EPS, PVC in fiber packaging overhaul

    The process required ample testing and collaboration. “We sell light bulbs, we sell appliances, we sell toilets. These are products that are prone to damage if they are not secured with the right packaging,” said one sustainability leader.

    By • Sept. 20, 2024
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    Want to know what packaging EPR will look like in the US? So does everyone else.

    The industry’s perception of EPR has changed the last two years, according to a speaker at the Packaging Recycling Summit. But stakeholders are still seeking answers related to data collection, ecomodulation and more.

    By • Sept. 19, 2024
  • Culligan aluminum water bottles lined up in a beverage refrigerator
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    Largest US arena aims to take aluminum water bottles mainstream

    Chicago’s United Center is partnering with local water company Culligan to shun single-use plastic. Although the city has struggled to improve its recycling, the arena can serve as a dense area for messaging, collection and impact.

    By • Sept. 17, 2024
  • Hands hold an Aerflo reusable carbon capsule
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    Sparkling water craze meets reuse with Aerflo’s launch

    Investor Closed Loop Partners hailed the convenience of the startup’s refillable bottle system. Aerflo estimates its reusable capsules, which carbonate water on the go, could each displace more than 330 beverage cans.

    By • Sept. 12, 2024
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    EPA recommends BPI, GreenScreen, other ecolabels in food service ware procurement

    The agency finalized additions to its recommendations this month, including ones related to reusable, certified commercially compostable, and certified recyclable options.

    By • Updated Dec. 11, 2024
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    Keurig Dr Pepper to pay $1.5M to settle charges about K-Cup recyclability

    The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission says the beverage company omitted from filed documents some important information about testing the curbside recyclability of its K-Cup coffee pods. 

    By • Sept. 10, 2024
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    As Amazon and others nix air pillows, packaging manufacturers diversify to cushion the blow

    Packaging companies are having to adapt to keep up as e-commerce expands and protective packaging trends shift. Retailers are trying new void fill materials, rightsizing packages and more.

    By Shefali Kapadia • Sept. 10, 2024
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    How to deliver high protective performance with sustainable block and brace packaging

    As consumer demand for sustainability rises and regulations tighten, companies are abandoning plastic foams and switching to more sustainable alternatives.

    Sept. 9, 2024
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    Packaging innovations: McDonald’s four-flap McFlurry, Capri-Sun bottle debate

    Plus, New England Coffee ditches its plastic pod base for commercially compostable materials.

    By • Sept. 6, 2024
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    Music venues become a proving ground for reusable packaging

    Groups like Upstream and musicians such as Grace Potter are pushing to replace single-use cups with reusable options. This weekend’s Imagine Zero Music Festival is the latest example of a reuse-focused event.

    By • Sept. 6, 2024
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    Myplas film recycling plant in Minnesota to reopen under new ownership

    GDB Circular plans to upgrade the facility and improve operations at the film recycling plant, which opened in December but idled soon after due to financial issues.

    By Megan Quinn • Sept. 4, 2024
  • Two hands place two purple plastic reusable cups toward a receptacle that says "Thanks for dropping your reusable cup here."
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    Berry seeks insights on reusable cups at scale in California rollout

    Berry provided HDPE cups that are ultimately recyclable for a NextGen Consortium initiative that began this month in the city of Petaluma. The company expects legislation will drive more reuse activity in the coming years.

    By • Aug. 30, 2024
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    Reverse vending machines win CalRecycle funding for beverage container redemption

    As California seeks to bolster its bottle bill, a $70 million round of grant funding is supporting more than 250 new recycling sites across 30 counties. This also includes mobile recycling and bag drop programs.

    By • Aug. 28, 2024
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    Chang Robotics offers PFAS alternative for food-contact fiber packaging

    “We're really trying to solve a major societal environmental problem,” said Timothy Wei, chief scientist for the startup that developed a graphene oxide-based barrier material.

    By • Aug. 26, 2024
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    Amcor releases decarbonization road map

    Redesigning packaging to weigh less, use fewer materials and incorporate lower-carbon materials is part of the company’s efforts to reach SBTi-validated 2033 emissions reduction targets.

    By • Aug. 23, 2024
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    Coca-Cola ‘on track’ for packaging recyclability goal, ‘behind plan’ on recycled content target

    In an environmental update, the beverage giant reported that progress on reusable packaging formats and recyclability was stagnant in 2023 while its rate of recycled PET use ticked up.

    By • Aug. 22, 2024
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    Plastics Pact Network details its 6-year impact on tackling plastic pollution

    Future work will focus on environmental justice, informing policy and securing more funding to scale impact.

    By • Aug. 22, 2024
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    Google achieves plastic-free packaging ahead of 2025 with help of new paper

    Google says it was important to work with partners such as Veritiv to design the new paper material and other packaging to give consumers visual cues that encourage recycling.

    By • Aug. 21, 2024
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    5 stats on plastics recycling and ‘circularity’ investments

    In new reports this summer, various groups shared updated data on where plastics transformation investments are being allocated, how recycling and recycled content use are evolving, and more.

    By • Aug. 21, 2024
  • A scene inside a coffee shop with paper cups and food on a counter and a barista using a marker to write on a cup.
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    Graphic Packaging’s new technology set to reduce paperboard coatings

    The technology slated to debut in the plant GPI is building in Waco, Texas, allows the use of paper cups and production scrap as paperboard feedstocks. The company has also introduced new sustainability targets and retired others.

    By • Aug. 20, 2024
  • Close-up across of 5 rPET Coca-Cola bottles: Sprite, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Coca-Cola Original, Diet Coke, Fanta
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    28% of PET bottles are being recycled, The Recycling Partnership reports

    The PET Recycling Coalition reports it’s been able to help capture more PET bottles and non-bottle PET packaging. There’s still more demand for clear recycled PET, while interest in pigmented or opaque rPET is low.

    By • Aug. 20, 2024