We deliver high-quality packaging products, services and relevant insights that drive profitable growth for our customers and ourselves. Sustainable packaging is at the heart of those efforts.
More now than ever before, brands in all categories are being challenged to use packaging and processes that reduce emissions, minimize waste, and consume fewer natural resources.
We help brands do this by advancing our Purpose and Philosophy through the Four Ps:
People, Plants, Products, and Partnership as it relates to sustainable packaging.
Flexible and specialty rigid packaging offers a number of sustainability benefits throughout the entire life cycle of the package when compared to other packaging formats including:
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Sustainability is a shared value driven by Printpack’s dedicated Sustainability team and championed by every associate. We empower our people to connect with customers, understand their unique challenges, and co-create solutions that balance environmental sustainability with customer success.
Waste reduction, energy efficiency, decarbonization, and active employee engagement are a few of the practices Printpack is embedding into our manufacturing operations so that we may contribute to a more sustainable future.
Printpack Preserve™ is our commitment to:
A rigid PET container for laundry detergent pods emits +726% more greenhouse gases than a flexible pouch with a zipper.
A rigid pail for cat liter packaging consumes +1,429% more fossil fuel than a flexible bag.
An HDPE bottle for motor oil packaging consumes +513% more water than a flexible pouch with a fitment. A steel can for packaging coffee consumes +1,605% more water than a flexible pouch.
A single-serve juice flexible pouch efficiently uses packaging with a product to package ratio of 97% compared to a can.
+31% more thermoformed tubs for food packaging end up in landfill compared to a flexible pouch.
Printpack’s dedicated Sustainability Team ensures we are partnering with the leading technology suppliers, university researchers, and industry groups. Investing in these strategic partnerships through time, resources, knowledge sharing, and financial contributions, we are enabling Printpack to guide the industry and lead our customers throughout their sustainability journey.
View Our Full List Of Sustainability PartnershipsThe Sustainable Packaging Coalition is an industry working group inspired by cradle to cradle principles and dedicated to transforming packaging into a system that encourages economic prosperity and a sustainable flow of materials.
APR, which was founded over 30 years ago by mechanical recyclers, is an international non-profit and the only North American organization focused exclusively on improving recycling for plastics.
The Plastics Industry Association (PLASTICS), formerly SPI, is a purpose-driven organization that supports the entire plastics supply chain.
The Flexible Packaging Association is the leading trade association for converters of flexible packaging and suppliers to the industry. Consider it the association for the fastest growing segment in the packaging industry.
Ameripen is an organization exclusively focused on U.S. public policy for the entire packaging industry.
CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts.
October 8, 2020
Innovation. At Printpack, it’s not just a platitude. Over the past 7 years, we’ve developed a 5-point approach that stimulates innovation, helping clients not only get to market more quickly but meet their sustainable packaging goals in ways that…
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July 2, 2021
On-Demand Now: Listen in as Printpack’s Sustainable Innovations Manager, Bill Barlow participated in a live paneled webinar with Dow and Ameripen: Countdown to Sustainability: A Global Packaging Discussion.
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October 17, 2022
Together, we introduce the Preserve™ PE PCR recyclable polyethylene (PE) pouch and Berry Global’s Entour™ sealant film. This structure paves the way to further improving recyclability, decreasing virgin plastic use, and more.
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