Flexible Packaging Resource Recovery: A Work in Progress

The Flexible Packaging Association is leading an industry effort to address end-of-packaging life alternatives for flexible packaging. To summarize the association’s work to date, FPA has produced the brochure Flexible Packaging Resource Recovery: A work in Progress, which highlights the strengths and benefits of flexible packaging, including many sustainability benefits such as the use of fewer resources and generation of fewer emission during manufacturing.

The brochure discusses the different types of flexible packaging and the challenges around end-of-packaging–life of multi-material laminates, which represent only about 1.6% of municipal solid waste in the U.S.