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Media Reports

Grocery Stores Pick Up on Consumer Recycling Trends [Earth911]

VisiPak Announces New Line of Candy Tube Packaging [Beaumont Enterprise]

New York City Adds Rigid Plastics to Recycling Program [Plastics News]

Got Milk? Central Michigan Professor Earns National Award for Packaging That Stores Milk at Room Temperature [MLive]

Recycling of Rigid Plastics Tops 930 Million Pounds Annually [Food & Beverage Packaging]

Kellogg's Joins How2Recycle Labeling System [Packaging Digest]

Food Waste and Packaging: Fighting Negative Perceptions While Continuing to Innovate [Plastics Today]

Is Plastic Packaging the "Silent Hero" to the Global Food Waste Problem? [Plastics Today]

Project Reclaims Plastic Packaging from Oceans [Packaging Digest]

Consumers Still Unaware of Innovative Food Packaging Importance, Says WRAP [Waste Management World]

Consumers Willing to Pay More for Fresh, Sustainable Packaging [Progressive Grocer]

12 Fruits and Vegetables That Last for Months [Organic Gardening]

U.S.: Produce Companies Shifting to Flexible Packaging [Fresh Plaza]

Dow Chemical Adding “Recover” to “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” [Plastics Today]

L’Oréal Reiterates Importance of Sustainability AND Safety of Plastics Packaging [Cosmetics Design-Europe]

New Anti-Bacterial Packaging to Prolong Pepsi’s Shelf-Life [TriplePundit]

Before & After: Xango's Transition from Glass to PET [The Dieline]

Sustainability: Flexible Packaging Gets a Bad Wrap [Flexible Packaging]

New Plan to Jumpstart Package Recycling [Packaging Digest]

Partnership to Bring Recycled Packaging to Restaurants [Packaging Digest]

Photographic Proof That Plastic Keeps Cucumbers and Peppers Happier for Longer [Plastics & Rubber Weekly]

The Plastic Recycling Rate That Jumped 50 Percent [Earth 911]

What Types of Plastics Can be Recycled [Earth 911]

Great Recycling Tips for Earth Day [Plastics Make it Possible]

News Releases/Blog Posts:

New York City Reconsiders Recycling; Kudos to Mayor Bloomberg

Recycling of Rigid Plastics Tops 930 Million Pounds Annually

Plastics Deliver More Choices, Advances in Frozen Foods—With Less Packaging and Food Waste

Report Quantifies Energy and Emissions for Injection Molded and Thermoformed Plastics

APR Addresses Concerns with Shrink Labels; Study Determines Impact on PET Container Recycling

Access to Plastics Recycling More Widespread Than Previously Believed

Global Plastics and Plastic Product Producers Take Action on Marine Litter

Recycling of Non-Bottle Rigid Plastics in the United States Up Nearly 50 Percent in Two Years

Bins on Beaches Recycling Programs Achieve Strong Numbers in California

Plastic packaging timeline

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Plastics Make it Possible®

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Plastics Make it Possible highlights up-to-date and compelling innovations in plastics, including packaging.