Recycle-Ready Peg Bags for Confections

Company: American Packaging Corporation; americanpackaging.com

Description: American Packaging Corporation (APC) and The Hershey Company advanced sustainability by providing consumers with recycle-ready flexible packaging for their favorite snack-size peg bag items. Transitioning to recycle-ready, all-PE structures creates challenges as recycle-ready films are more extensible, hazier, and more heat-sensitive. Collaborating with our suppliers to advance PE technology, investing in specialized printing/laminating equipment designed for extensible films, and combining with our process control expertise, APC demonstrated how to drive significant improvement in the printing/processing capability required by recycle-ready packaging. APC and Hershey created store drop-off recycle-ready packaging solutions for their consumers with excellent shelf life and shelf presence.