Everyday items like clothing, plastics and packaging can last centuries. Here’s how long they tend to breakdown and why design and consumer choices must change.

Once packaging leaves the consumer, it enters fragmented collection and sorting systems where contamination, infrastructure ...

Most debates about packaging waste focus on household recycling, while the heavier costs pile up in factories, warehouses and distribution hubs. Industrial packaging waste—pallet wrap, strapping, ...

Today, economic development is impossible without packaging: it makes products convenient to use and recognizable, protects them from mechanical damage, and ensures their transportation. Increasingly, ...

Indorama Ventures and AMB Spa have unveiled a 'next-generation' PET multilayer tray designed for recycling, aiming to meet ...

Refilling a bottle instead of throwing it away has become a popular way for people to reduce waste — a small, tangible action in response to larger environmental problems.

The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre has published a technical proposal for harmonised waste sorting labels on EU packaging.

Packaging rarely attracts attention until something goes wrong, yet it plays a decisive role in how goods move, comply, and ...

A new technical proposal for EU harmonised waste sorting labels has been published by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) to support implementation of the Packaging and Packaging ...