North America Flexible Packaging Sustainability
Sustainability
North America’s trusted developer and producer of responsible, more sustainable flexible packaging.
A packaging partner you can trust
A partner who every day, in everything we do, lives up to our responsibility to deliver more sustainable packaging solutions that responds to consumers’ evolving needs.
A partner who every day, in everything we do, lives up to our responsibility to deliver more sustainable packaging solutions that responds to consumers’ evolving needs.
More than half of U.S. consumers are highly concerned about the environmental impact of packaging.
Consumers want plastic film and rigid packaging to be recyclable and/or to include higher levels of recycled content.
Consumers would also buy additional sustainably packaged products if more of them were available and they were better labelled.
Source: Buying Green Report 2021 and McKinsey Packaging Survey 2020
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Circular Economy
The principles of the circular economy underpin our approach to designing and producing flexible packaging for customers across North America by:
The principles of the circular economy underpin our approach to designing and producing flexible packaging for customers across North America by:
Investing heavily in R&D to develop new film formats that are more sustainable, that consider the whole product life-cycle, to reduce environmental impact at every stage
Increasing the use of recycled content in our feedstocks from post-consumer and post-industrial sources
Working in partnership with the wider packaging industry to drive the circular economy in plastics
The Circular Economy for Plastics
Based on a diagram from Ellen MacArthur Foundation
More Sustainable Solutions
We have a strategic focus on sustainability across our global business. In North America we are integrating specialist services with our leading portfolio of flexible packaging, supported by our core capabilities, to provide more sustainable solutions.
We have a strategic focus on sustainability across our global business. In North America we are integrating specialist services with our leading portfolio of flexible packaging, supported by our core capabilities, to provide more sustainable solutions.
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We are an active and engaged leader in the circular economy and collaborate with like-minded partners in pursuit of innovative solutions to some of the world’s most urgent challenges.
We are an active and engaged leader in the circular economy and collaborate with like-minded partners in pursuit of innovative solutions to some of the world’s most urgent challenges.
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation develops and promotes the idea of a circular economy.
The Ocean Conservancy works with everyone to protect the ocean from today’s global challenges. They create science-based solutions for a healthy ocean, the wildlife and the communities that depend on it.
Earthwatch connects scientists with people worldwide to conduct environmental research, empowering them with the knowledge they need to conserve the planet.
ReSource closes the gap for companies who are seeking to turn their commitments into measurable actions.
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