Last week, researchers found that a generation defines itself by food, the global spout pouch market will grow, laser coding is now an option on a sustainable line of films, S’mores packaging glows and new resins aim for a circular economy.

Oriented polyethylene film technologies offer new building blocks for packaging recyclability.

Home Chef considered the most wasteful, whereas Blue Apron deemed the least wasteful, with 50% of its packaging recyclable.

UPM Raflatac’s new Ocean Action label is the first made using SABIC’s certified circular polyolefins for packaging label applications.

A new study from Transparency Market Research says that the rising need for environmentally friendly packaging means stand-up pouches are projected to be in high demand.

On a recent trip to a remote village in Indonesia, I witnessed something unfathomable: A young family was building their future — a new home — on top of a mountain of plastic waste.

In a few years, flexible packaging analysts may look back at 2022 as a transformative year when advanced recycling and circularity infrastructure investments took hold. 

Manufactured by Hilex, the new bags are designed to make shopping for produce easier for customers and are offered in both conventional and compostable versions.

The film solution offers the properties for efficient and safe packaging of wet pet food in daypacks.

CJ BIO and NatureWorks say the goal of the agreement is to develop high-performance biopolymers that will replace fossil fuel-based plastics.