Articles Tagged with ''recyclable materials''

Can makers and their suppliers have been focusing on and prioritizing sustainability long before sustainability was a buzz word or a business strategy.

Your company is part of a larger system, one that changes constantly.

This year’s winners are being celebrated for developing innovative processes and products using post-industrial and/or post-consumer recycled plastics.

Students from Fremont Elementary School in Riverside, CA, will celebrate America Recycles Day on Nov. 12 by touring CarbonLITE Recycling to see firsthand how plastic bottles are kept out of the waste stream.

The total volume of postconsumer PET bottles collected was the highest reported to date at 1.718 billion pounds, as were both the total amount of RPET produced by U.S. reclaimers, 930 million pounds, and the amount used across major end-use domestic market segments at 1.3 billion pounds.

Consumers also point to product’s packaging as first place to learn if the product is recyclable

Forty-five percent of U.S. households can now recycle cartons through their curbside recycling programs and other recycling venues, thanks to a unique voluntary private and public collaboration that includes industry, recycling facilities and local governments.

Organic, fair trade truffles launch in sustainable packaging with compostable wrappers.

Mayor encourages Milwaukeeans to think beyond the bag and recycle wraps

PTI has developed the PET Packaging Recycling Calculator app so that users can see how the material, barrier, additive, closure, labels, etc. decisions they make can potentially impact the next generation of PET.