Recyclers often note that from the time one begins to plan for the development of a materials recovery facility, it takes an average of 10 years to complete. In that time, packaging can shift dramatically as converters and brands replace materials, develop new formats, and launch innovative technologies designed to make packaging more effective in its roles—and to be recyclable.
Read MoreSustainable Packaging
The Environmental Footprint of Flexible Packaging
Sidel Joins R-Cycle
R-Cycle is the Open Tracing Standard for Sustainable Plastic Packaging
Sidel wants to build upon its key role in bringing the circular economy to life.
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Leveraging Marking and Coding Technology for Sustainability
One important way manufacturers and retailers can improve the sustainability of their products is through investment in greener packaging options. Most will be aware of the potential cost benefits and reduced environmental impact of switching to recyclable materials, but fewer have considered the role improved marking and coding solutions can play in enhancing efficiency and sustainability across supply chains.
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Flexo Evolution Supports Sustainable Progress in Packaging
The pivotal point of all packaging industry innovation is sustainability. All stakeholders across the entire packaging supply chain understand the only way to future-proof our industry is to embrace integrating responsibility at every stage.
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Cooperation Needed Along Value Chain to Achieve Sustainable Flexible Packaging
A Circular Economy Requires a Holistic Approach
The flexible packaging industry is seen as a source of single-use plastic and a landfill mainstay, causing flexible packaging’s sustainability benefits to be often overshadowed by public perception. This is why it should be the industry’s top priority to not only talk about sustainability—but also to live it.
Read MoreSun Chemical Takes Multi-Layered Approach to Sustainability
Corporate Sustainability Report Focuses on ‘Five Rs’
Sun Chemical Corporation report focuses on its commitment to a sustainability strategy comprising three key pillars: operations, products and services, and collaborations.
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Downgauging Multi-layer Film Structures
Predictive models can help designers downgauge their films while maintaining critical properties and helping to accelerate innovation.
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Recycling Efforts Must Accelerate to Meet Goals
End markets for packaging with recycled content are driven, among other things, by brand owners, regulation, industry associations, and consumers.
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CEO: Plastic Is Not Going Away
It’s Time to Promote a Circular Economy
The truth is, plastic is not the problem. The problem is that we are discarding it so early in its life cycle. Instead of thinking of one necessary use for the polymers, innovators need to think about the entire life cycle of these materials.
Read MoreSimple Steps Present Flexible Packaging as a Clear Solution
Implementing sustainable packaging is a journey, but it doesn’t have to be a difficult one. Flexible packaging has a great opportunity to expand its footprint by simplifying the packaging transformation into attainable steps and by offering leadership and direction throughout the process.
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Energy from Waste
Companies Create System Toward Circular Economy
The column titled “FPA’s Recycling Efforts Accelerate” in the May/June issue of FlexPack VOICE® discussed FPA’s work with The Recycling Partnership, as well as other initiatives, to improve recycling efforts nationwide.
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Tracking Solvent Recycling
Better Monitoring Equipment Can Improve Performance
Are you looking for a groundbreaking innovation to meet your environmental goals? How about a green technology that could revolutionize the sustainability of your operation?
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Breaking Down Sustainability Goals
Basic Steps Will Lead to Achievements
Sustainability is a concern for governments, businesses, and people worldwide.
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Advancements Make Compostable Packaging Possible
Compostable No Longer Just a Buzzword
The demand for compostable packaging to replace traditional plastic food and beverage packaging is growing steadily, and that trend is predicted to continue for years to come. It’s no surprise that consumers are excited about the idea of products that will essentially disappear into the earth instead of piling up in landfills or our environment. […]
Read MoreThe Ellen MacArthur Foundation: Circularity More Relevant Than Ever
Analyzing the Status of a Circular Economy
In 2016, The Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) decided to bring plastic packaging into the circular economy. The foundation’s message is clear: “The vision aims at ensuring that plastic never becomes a waste by 1) eliminating the plastic we don’t need; 2) innovating to ensure that the plastics we do need are reusable, recyclable, and compostable; […]
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Flexible Packaging: An “Essential” Place to Be
Sustainability Remains Important as Opportunities Grow
It’s a great time to be in flexible packaging, especially if you’re a vertically integrated, domestic manufacturer like Plastic Packaging Technologies. I’m guessing many other leaders in this industry feel the same way.
Read MoreIs Safety the New Sustainability for Food Packaging?
The headline for this article—Is Safety the New Sustainability for Food Packaging?—probably is a pretty provocative question to anyone working in the packaging space.
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