Small-format plastic packaging can’t be properly recycled via conventional residential systems. Representatives from Estée Lauder, Ulta and MIT discussed potential solutions at the Packaging Recycling Summit.
Source: Big things for small packages: Working to capture tiny recyclables | Waste Dive
Following months of lobbying by manufacturers, brands and trade groups, members supported reductions in packaging waste, recyclability requirements, bans on PFAS and BPA in food-contact packaging and other provisions.
Source: European Parliament advances rules to reduce packaging by 2030 and beyond | Packaging Dive
European Union countries and lawmakers have reached a breakthrough to stop sending their plastic trash to poor countries.
A white paper from the West Coast Climate and Materials Management Forum offers suggestions for policymakers to “go beyond recycling” to consider how to make EPR policies more climate friendly.
Plastic bag drop-off resource is taken off-line
The longest-running comprehensive guide to public drop-off sites accepting plastic film has been taken down, leaving a gap in consumer-facing recycling information for bags and other flexible packaging.
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A combination of headwinds, such as high interest rates, new competition in California and changing consumer habits have hit the glass recycler hard in recent years.
Source: Major glass recycler Strategic Materials files for bankruptcy amid market pressures | Waste Dive
In addition to standardizing what can be collected curbside and through special programs, the new rules also define “responsible” end markets and require PROs to manage materials according to relevant environmental and labor rules.
Speakers from LRS, Myplas, P&G, PMMI, Rumpke and more connected at the Packaging Recycling Summit to hash out ways to improve recycling and product recyclability as “really, really rapid” packaging changes occur.
, and The Association of Plastic Recyclers (APR) have announced the latest update to the ISRI Specifications and APR Model Bale Specifications to include updated recycled pSpeakers from consumer brands like Coca-Cola and recyclers like Rumpke discussed how to send more recyclables to MRFs at the Packaging Recycling Summit.