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Packaging professionals within consumer packaged goods companies report growing awareness around the business impacts connected to natural resource scarcity, but robust knowledge and understanding is still absent

The Plastics Academy will honor this year’s inductees in a streamlined ceremony held at NPE2015, the largest and most important plastics tradeshow held in North America.

US demand to exceed $39 billion in 2018

In the last two years, Recycling Reinvented has worked to introduce legislation in several states and commission a cost-benefit study for Minnesota to show how EPR could increasing recycling rates and find cost efficiencies on a statewide level.

The average industry bottle weight ranges from 60-62 grams, but the new Mid-America patented design weighs only 52 grams.

Bemis has responded to the recently-announced discontinuation of Barex resin with commercially-available alternatives to Barex resin-based packaging.

Rexam’s corporate headquarters recycling efforts raised more than $45,300 for various local charities.

From ultra-personalized experiences to custom packaging to straightforward dialogue, 2015 will be the year where the consumer truly reigns supreme.

In 2013, the industry used 39% less wax than in 2002, when wax usage was first measured.