Catch up on Packaging Dive’s coverage of this year’s Packaging Recycling Summit from Anaheim, California:
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Insights from the 2024 Packaging Recycling Summit
Catch up on Packaging Dive’s coverage from this year’s Packaging Recycling Summit, including about AI applications, recycled plastic supply and demand, and how brands are thinking about EPR.
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Consumers are confused by packaging sustainability claims
By Katie Pyzyk • Oct. 7, 2024Between greenwashing, confusing terminology and a lack of information, a lot gets lost in translation, according to speakers from the National Retail Federation, NielsenIQ and others at recent industry events. Read the full article ➔
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Hush-hush: Is greenwashing pushback prompting pivot to ‘greenhushing’?
By Katie Pyzyk • Oct. 3, 2024Companies must focus on data to back their sustainability claims instead of resorting to silence, or exaggerations, said sources from groups such as the U.S. Plastics Pact, Glass Packaging Institute and McCormick & Co. Read the full article ➔
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Advancements push AI from jargon into practice for packaging management
By Katie Pyzyk • Sept. 26, 2024Glacier demonstrated at the Packaging Recycling Summit how it developed new AI models through partnerships with Colgate and Amazon to capture more recyclables at MRFs. Read the full article ➔
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Thermoform reclamation rises along with rPET demand
By Katie Pyzyk • Sept. 24, 2024As one speaker at the Packaging Recycling Summit called thermoforms an “untapped source” for reclaimed PET, Rumpke Waste & Recycling plans to begin accepting the containers in curbside recycling. Read the full article ➔
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Want to know what packaging EPR will look like in the US? So does everyone else.
By Katie Pyzyk • Sept. 19, 2024The industry’s perception of EPR has changed the last two years, according to a speaker at the Packaging Recycling Summit. But stakeholders are still seeking answers related to data collection, ecomodulation and more. Read the full article ➔
