Eco-Curated Sustainable Packaging

Sustainable Packaging

The Misleading Accounting Behind Your ‘Recycled’ Plastic

A convoluted credit system allows companies to label virgin plastic as recycled. Here's how it works. 

Designing More Successful Reusable Packaging Programs

This is a comprehensive guide covering everything needed to implement a reusable packaging program for any industry. Several false assumptions about packaging are reviewed and solutions offered in their place. Strategies and solutions are provided with circularity in mind. 

Guide to Recycled Plastics for Packaging: Part I – Opportunities for Progress

This guide aims to empower brands and their suppliers with the knowledge necessary to replace virgin fossil plastic in their packaging with recycled plastic. The ultimate goal of the guide is to advance the use of recycled plastics in packaging in order to reduce demand for virgin fossil plastics. Part 1 of 3.

Definition of Sustainable Packaging

This article defines sustainable packaging as incorporating these five principles: Uses SMART design; Advances the use of recycled materials and/or sustainably-sourced, renewable feedstocks; Is designed for reusability, recyclability, or composability and labeled with appropriate end-of-life instructions; Engages with reuse and refill models; and Invests in the growth of recycling and composting infrastructure, collection, and access. Also contains links to several related resources and topics.

Website: Sustainable Packaging Coalition - Resources Page

The Sustainable Packaging Coalition believes in the power of industry to advance sustainable packaging, through education, collaboration and action. This website offers a plethora of resources, guides, educational materials, case studies, and reports on package sustainability across many industries. Also covered are composting and recycling of paper, plastic, chemicals, wood fiber, and other packaging materials.