Data in new report reveals that certified food-contact compostable packaging breaks down successfully at commercial composting facilities that meet reasonable operating parameters. In total, the study ...

The Composting Consortium says EPR has been positioned as a tailwind for recycling, but compostable packaging, which helps to divert food scraps and reduce greenhouse gas emissions in landfills, is ...

August 19 - We’ve all been there: standing by a bin, squinting at a piece of packaging, trying to figure out its fate. Is it recyclable? Does it go straight into the rubbish bin? Increasingly, there’s ...

The Composting Consortium, an industry collaboration led by the Center for the Circular Economy at Closed Loop Partners, New York, has released a report on whether or not certified, food-contact ...

Compostable packaging continues to gain momentum even as it challenges the principles of a traditional circular economy built on reuse, repurpose, and recycling. While not a perfect loop, ...

GAN SHMUEL, Israel, March 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Sustainable food packaging pioneer W-Cycle, Ltd. is deepening its alliance with Melhoramentos to answer demand for plastic-free, compostable food ...

Food waste is a crisis we can no longer ignore. Every year, roughly a third of all food produced for human consumption ends ...

Tipa, an Israel-based supplier of compostable plastic flexible materials, has partnered with US packaging manufacturers PPC Flexible Packaging and Clearview Packaging to expand production of ...

A new product, first of its kind in the world, makes its debut in today when Metropolitan Market rolls out a fully compostable tan tray for meat, fish and poultry sales. The new type of tray, a ...

Greg Pryor of the composting company Recology holds a handful of processed compost at the integrated waste management's compost site in the San Joaquin Valley town of Vernalis in June. He tries to get ...

TIPA, a compostable packaging company, makes fully compostable bags for shipping products in multiple stages of the supply chain. Swapping out traditional plastic bags in the food and fashion ...

Greg Pryor began composting yard and food waste for San Francisco in 1996, and today he oversees nine industrial-sized composting sites in California and Oregon that turn discarded banana peels, ...