Consumers will soon see the How2Recycle label on some Costco Wholesale Kirkland Signature™ brand products in stores across the U.S. The retail giant will use the label to make recycling different types of packaging easier.
Dow Packaging and Specialty Plastics has announced Tim Boven as the new recycling commercial director for Latin America and North America and Carsten Larsen as recycling commercial director for EMEA & APAC.
Growth in e-commerce is dramatically changing supply chain dynamics and as any online shopper will attest, more corrugated boxes are ending up in consumers’ garages than ever before.
Avery Dennison Corp. and Ocean Recovery Alliance, founders of Plasticity Forum, aim to collaborate across the industry to discover, connect and facilitate solutions to create innovative prevention programs for plastic pollution.
The PepsiCo Foundation, the philanthropic arm of PepsiCo, and The Recycling Partnership have launched All In On Recycling, the largest ever industry-wide residential recycling challenge to make recycling easier for families.
Three industry trends are providing incentives for innovation, and creating new opportunities and threats for players in the global protective transit packaging business.
The Plastics Recycling Europe and The Association of Plastic Recyclers have developed a global definition governing the use of the term “recyclable” as it relates to plastics packaging and products, in hopes to provide a consistent metric to guide the efforts of sustainability for plastics in the Circular Economy.
The initial phase of the first-ever industry effort designed to provide packaging manufacturers the ability to assess the sortability of their products in the waste stream was unveiled at the The Association of Plastic Recyclers’ (APR) Member Meeting earlier this month in Houston.
Consumers and the industry play vital parts in keeping waste out of oceans. The International Bottled Water Association (IBWA) is recognizing World Oceans Day today, June 8, by highlighting the industry’s reduction in plastic use, and educating consumers about ways they can help keep waste out of our oceans and litter off our shorelines.
Italian food company Barilla is partnering with TerraCycle to provide a free, easy way to recycle its Ready Pasta packaging. The Ready Pasta Recycling Program offers consumers a method of recycling the instant pasta pouches.