In 2011, the Plastic Free Foundation began Plastic Free July, a monthlong challenge to reduce plastic waste. In just 12 years, what started as a small campaign in Western Australia in 2011 has become ...

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Remember when suppliers began adding post-consumer resin (PCR) to flexible packaging to make it more sustainable and more attractive to sustainably driven customers? Suppliers started with modest ...

Do you ever feel like plastic packaging is the uninvited guest in your house? You've been told it's harmful to the environment – taking hundreds of years to break down – but somehow it ends up in your ...