Category
Materials
Recycled content is a supply question
Specifying 50% PCR is easy. Holding it across a year of production is a different problem, and it is not a materials problem.
What "recyclable" means to a sorting line
A material is recyclable if a machine can identify it at speed. Most specifications never mention the machine.
"Compostable" is not a material
It describes an end-of-life route that depends on infrastructure most of your customers do not have. Here is what to ask instead.
Paper is not automatically better
Fibre wins on collection and loses on barrier and weight. Which of those matters depends on your product, not on the material.
Mono-material pouches, two years on
We put six brands onto recyclable mono-PE pouches in 2024. Here is what actually happened to them.
The ink and the adhesive decide it
Two percent of the pack by weight routinely determines whether the other ninety-eight can be recycled.