Glenroy® was featured in Packaging Technology Today for sustainable packaging innovation.

“If you’re familiar with flexible packaging — spouted pouches, stick packs, sachets, zipper pouches — you’ll know that it’s traditionally challenging to recycle. The main reason relates to flexible packaging’s multilayer plastic structures and the difficulty separating the various materials used in each layer at recycling facilities. Because of this traditional approach to flexible packaging, it had been commonly thought of as “hard to recycle”. However, with the rise of consumer awareness and the commitment by brand owners to meet sustainability goals by 2025 or 2030, the tide is changing within the flexible packaging industry. It’s time to start viewing flexible packaging as a sustainability enabler and as a resource, not waste.

According to the article Creating a Circular Economy for Plastics by Nicola Ledsham, “Society needs to stop thinking of plastic as ‘waste,’ but as a renewable resource that needs to be disposed of correctly.” It had been commonly thought of as “hard to recycle.” However, with the rise of consumer awareness and the commitment by brand owners to meet sustainability goals by 2025 or 2030, the tide is changing within the flexible packaging industry. It’s time to start viewing flexible packaging as a sustainability enabler and as a resource, not waste.”