When I was in Seattle for the 2012 TAPPI PLACE Conference (May 6-9; Grand Hyatt Seattle), there was an aspect of the city that stuck with me, and it wasn't the overabundance of Starbucks. All over the ...

New, dynamic label features The Recycling Partnership’s Recycle Check QR code and utilizes data from its national database to demystify recycling across the US. The announcement follows How2Recycle’s ...

A battle has been waging in Sacramento over whether beverage cartons — the ones used for milk, juice, broth, wine, even egg whites — should get the coveted chasing arrows recycling label. Earlier this ...

Online shopping creates millions of tons of packaging waste each year. During the two-day Amazon Prime event that took place in October, America ordered an estimated 260 million items. The shipping ...

Walk into the grocery store and check the back of a container of food. Chances are, you’ll see a small box with instructions on how to dispose of the packaging when you’re finished with it: “empty & ...

Over the summer, Building Services replaced the “Trash” labels on the grey disposal bins scattered throughout Frist’s first, second and third floors with “Landfill” labels. This isn’t just an ...

In a landmark move, a national recycling strategy is to be launched across the U.S., aiming to streamline recycling bin labels and, in so doing, give the market a desperately needed overhaul. Rep.

Calvin Klein underwear products will now feature detailed instructions on how to recycle its packaging, according to a press release emailed to Retail Dive. PVH Corp., the parent company of Calvin ...

Sealed Air has developed a new Cryovac LT-1 shrink sleeve label, calling it one of the first in the industry with a density lower than the 1g/cu cm polyethylene terephthalate (PET) recycling standard.

Plastic is a fast-growing segment of U.S. municipal solid waste, and most of it ends up in the environment. Just 9% of plastic collected in municipal solid waste was recycled as of 2018, the most ...

Rhode Island has become the first state in the U.S. to participate in Recycle Across America’s (RAA) national standardized recycling label program, according to an article by RI NPR. RAA initiated the ...

Like many other industries around the world, the medical device industry currently creates large amounts of waste. Fortunately, there are ways to counter this, and one of the simplest ways to combat ...