Call to Cut Plastic Packaging in NYS and Boost Recycling

Call to Cut Plastic Packaging in NYS and Boost Recycling

New York faces a growing plastic pollution crisis. We produce 6.8 million tons of packaging waste each year. Most of this packaging is sent to landfills, incinerated, or littered in our streets, parks, beaches, rivers, and ultimately, the Atlantic Ocean. According to the EPA, plastics constitute approximately 12.2% of the municipal solid waste stream. For Yonkers alone, that adds up to 11,000 tons of plastic waste per year, which is trucked to P…

Avery Dennison explores how packaging innovation can cut plastic waste - Australian Manufacturing

A new white paper commissioned by global materials science company Avery Dennison is shedding light on how packaging innovation, particularly pressure-sensitive labels, can contribute to circularity efforts across the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry.