Several quick-service restaurant brands recently announced packaging sustainability goals.
Several quick-service restaurant brands recently announced packaging sustainability goals.
A leading European trade group has warned that an influx of colored PET packaging is endangering the rPET market.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has organized a major plastics circular economy effort, and Dr Pepper Snapple shareholders continue to resist recycled-content goals.
Europe’s PET trade group reports on efforts to boost thermoform recycling, and Tomra wins an award in China for its advanced flake sortation technology.
A European Union panel has approved the use of Starlinger de-contamination technology to recycle post-consumer PET into 100 percent-recycled-content food and beverage packaging.
A revised guide released by the Association of Plastic Recyclers represents the industry’s latest attempt to educate packaging designers on the realities of recyclability.
Some plastics recycling professionals supported the U.K. remaining in the European Union, and Ireland could create lots of jobs by recycling at home.
A California company using a silicone-based additive in the creation of food-contact-approved recycled PET is expanding production to Indiana.
How successful are existing sortation systems at separating flexible packaging? New research aims to answer that question.
Plastic cans with metal lids might provide consumers with a better look at what’s inside, but that doesn’t mean the plastic recycling industry is happy about the innovation.