A new tool takes companies through a series of steps to identify ways to use less plastic. | Trong Nguyen / Shutterstock
A digital tool developed by The Recycling Partnership and consulting firm Systemiq turns research into strategy for major brand owners and other companies.
Researchers estimate over 74 billion PET bottles were landfilled, burned or littered in the U.S. in 2019. | Teerasak Ladnongkhun / Shutterstock
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A new report estimates that a nationwide bottle deposit program would reduce the number of drink containers each American wastes to 67 per year, down from 426 under the status quo.
The PepsiCo recycling program is being offered to schools, universities, stores, restaurants and other away-from-home settings. | SunnyToys / Shutterstock
PepsiCo recently rolled out a collection system providing bins, regular collection and data analysis for bottle recycling at businesses and other non-residential spaces.
A cosmetic tube technology was approved by APR for its compatibility with recycling processes. | nikitabuida / Shutterstock
HDPE tubes, PET aerosol containers and PP thermoforms were among the packaging innovations that received recyclability recognition from the Association of Plastic Recyclers recently.
Leaders outlined the challenges and opportunities of recycled content mandates at a recent conference. | zombiemaster/Shutterstock
Policymakers and brand owners have recently emphasized boosting recycled content in plastic packaging to try to enhance recycling. At a conference this week, speakers outlined some of the challenges in this realm.
Eastman is now supplying its Tritan Renew brand recycled resin to Tupperware Brands Corporation, which is using it to produce containers. | Courtesy of Tupperware Brands Corporation.
Three virgin plastics producers expand their recycled-resin offerings, and a chemically recycled copolyester finds a home in Tupperware food and drink containers.
Unilever uses about 118,000 metric tons of plastic packaging in North America each year, half of which is post-consumer resin. | Peter Bueno/Shutterstock
Unilever North America will invest $15 million in the Closed Loop Partners Leadership Fund, a private equity platform that helps grow companies in the recycling value chain.
Globally in 2019, Colgate-Palmolive produced 275,440 metric tons of plastic packaging, of which 7% was PCR. | Courtesy of Colgate-Palmolive.
The Palmolive Ultra brand of dish soap is now using a 100% post-consumer PET bottle in North America.
Procter & Gamble noted that it now has 12 packages and technologies certified for recyclability by RecyClass. | Jonathan Weiss/Shutterstock
RecyClass has now certified the recyclability of a dozen packaging innovations from Procter & Gamble.
Edgewell Personal Care has a goal of cutting its use of virgin plastic in all disposable razor handles in half by 2030. | terekhov igor/Shutterstock
The company that owns the Schick and Skintimate disposable razor brands announced that it is now using up to 100% recycled plastic in the handles of some razors.