In Victorian London, among the factories and warehouses of the city’s East End, Alexander Parkes developed the world’s first plastic (he inventively called it Parkesine). Notpla, a startup now based ...

Packsize, a Utah-based company specializing in automated corrugated packaging, has emerged as a notable player addressing ...

Companies that use plastic packaging are facing price pressures and supply disruptions, which they warn will likely mean higher costs for consumers. The cost of food-grade resin out of Singapore, ...

Designing products to be treated through sustainable, efficient, and low-carbon operations in the effort to limit plastic pollution and increase recyclability is now a priority in the European Union ...

There has been a surge in awareness of the damage that plastic pollution does to our planet in recent years. It has spurred a number of campaigns to remove single-use plastics from our daily lives.

Food packaging from five countries has complex, unique chemical fingerprints, and some items contain thousands of different chemicals, according to a new study (Environ. Sci. Technol. 2024, DOI: ...

Every day, consumers rip open packaged goods and discard the single-use plastic wrapper. That makes plastic pollution the key environmental concern for consumer packaged goods firms—and the target of ...

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 ...