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WALPOLE, N.H. -- The U.S. Plastics Pact (U.S. Pact) has released their Design for Circularity Playbooks, three essential reports designed to guide the lifecycle of plastics in the United States. [...]

The Maina Board of Environmental Protection is holding a public hearing this week on a new program that would require manufacturers to pay for the cost of recycling their packaging. [...]

Every year, more than 400 million tons of plastic is produced worldwide - more than a third of which is packaging. As it stands, global recycling systems can't cope with [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C.- The Recycling Partnership has released its Impact Report 2022: Complex Problems Require Bold, Integrated Solutions - highlighting solutions The Partnership has mobilized over the last eight years to [...]

Byline: Liz Bothwell Stifel recently hosted its first ESG & Impact Summit on 'Circular Economy: Separating Fact from Fiction and How Consumer Packaging is Evolving.' The conversation covered the evolution [...]

Byline: Waste360 Staff Danone announced a series of new commitments and actions to ensure its packaging will become 100 percent circular and to accelerate the global transition towarda circular economy [...]

Byline: Mallory Szczepanski Beth Coddington, a consultant at Resource Recycling Systems (RRS), has utilized her economics background to create a successful career for herself in the waste and recycling industry. [...]

Package design and packaging methods can determine the distribution costs of a firm. Most of a firm's distribution costs are transportation costs. If a container's wasted space is removed, more products can be shipped at a time and transportation costs can be reduced. A product analysis report can also determine which products are a firm's top sellers. The package design report should be completed for these products initially., There's a strong relationship between package design and distribution savings. While packaging material savings come from sizing packages and shipping containers to products, transportation, distribution, storage, and handling provide the [...]

Faced with consumers on the lookout for better value - and the new class of trade that's providing it - many conventional supermarket operators are thinking big. Literally. They're doing [...]

When it comes to assessing packaging costs, think outside the box. This is a theme I've visited before: What does packaging material really cost? How can we reduce packaging costs? [...]

As the holiday crunch fast approaches, consumer catalogers preoccupied with sales, inventory and seasonal staffing probably don't have visions of packaging dancing in their heads. Perhaps they should. Many mailers [...]