“Origami wasn’t available at a large scale in packaging applications,” says Jarmo Kouko, a research team leader at VTT, a research and technology company owned by the Finnish government. “I thought it ...

Companies across myriad industries are pledging to make their products—and packaging—more sustainable. One such company is the food and drink giant Nestlé, which announced in January that it had ...

Takeout containers get your favorite noodles from the restaurant to your dining table (or couch) without incident, but they are nearly impossible to recycle if they are made from foil-lined plastics.

Paper packaging is gaining ground as supermarkets and shoppers look to ditch single-use plastic. From spirits bottles made from wood-fibre to cardboard-based crisp tubes and recyclable paper sweet ...

Coveris’ pre-made paper block bottom bags will serve as secondary packaging for pladis’ confectionery brands in the US.

Sustainable packaging brand Notpla has used seaweed leftover from its own production processes to create paper that can be turned into envelopes and boxes. Top: photo is by Longlong Han. Above: Notpla ...

Like many other major plastics applications, plastics use in flexible packaging has come under deep scrutiny in recent years as sustainability concerns rise and spread globally. Paper is often lauded ...

Packaging has always been a balancing act. Consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies must weigh cost versus performance and market appeal versus machinability. As interest in sustainable packaging has ...

Consumers do make snap judgements based on what they’re looking at. They look at a product, and its packaging says something to them. Packaging is eye-catching and inviting, and it’s critical for ...

The Confederation of Paper Industries (CPI) has published its fourth design for recyclability guidelines, recommending a 5% limit of non-paper components in paper packaging. Paper packaging should be ...