Daisy Brand LLC has seen sales climb since it began using an inverted pouch with a closure from Aptar Group. Other brand owners may be able to track similar growth by adopting new designs, an industry consultant says.

Polymer Packaging Inc. is jumping back into the extrusion business after more than a decade of absence, spending more than $10 million on equipment to start film production soon on a pair of three-layer, co-extrusion lines made by Windmöller & Hölscher, the company said.

Buffalo Grove, Ill.-based PPC acquired Popular Ink LLC, a McKenney, Texas, printer and converter of flexible films, bags and pouches.

Flexible packaging maker Polykar Inc. is adding a new blown film line that will expand production by 7 million pounds.

New statistics show that Canadians have recycled more than 1 million pieces of plastic cannabis packaging during the first year of a collection program organized by Tweed, a cannabis brand, and TerraCycle, the recycler known for unique recycling programs.

NSF International is working with the environmental group GreenBlue to develop standards for recycled materials. And plastics will be first on the agenda.

The effort created about 300 bottles for Coca-Cola Co. through a process developed by Ioniqa Technologies BV of Eindhoven, Netherlands. The bottles were made with 25 percent plastic recovered from the Mediterranean Sea and beaches.

The Oakland, Calif.-based consumer goods firm sees its new Ignite Strategy as a way to expand both sales and profits alongside a set of environmental, social and government (ESG) goals that will impact its packaging choices in the next decade.

While some companies have pledged to use 100 percent recyclable or renewable content in their packaging by 2025, Procter & Gamble Co. has put a 2030 goal on that idea. The reason is simple: Getting to that point is going to be hard.

Silgan Holdings Inc., which makes plastic and metal packaging, is expanding its board of directors.

Pregis LLC, based in Deerfield, Ill., is the latest company to join the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, a $1.5 billion program funded by companies to help tackle the issue of plastic pollution and waste.

Berry Global Group Inc. will expand a blown film plant in Indiana through what is being described as a "multimillion-dollar" project, by local economic development officials.

A pilot project in the Pacific Northwest is out to show that secondary sorting could prove to be an economic way to capture additional plastics from the recycling stream, items not initially recovered at material recovery facilities.

Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest's Minderoo Foundation is pledging to underwrite the administration of a system to create chemical recycling facilities around the world. And he's chipping in seed money as well.