No longer able to idly watch the increasingly popular plastic pouches that currently are taking the US market by storm continued to mount in landfills, Alter Eco -- a “full-circle sustainability ...

Even those iconic Goldfish crackers are migrating from paper packaging to a resealable plastic stand-up pouch. “Pouches are definitely going to grow at Campbell Soup,” Gordon said.

The stand-up pouch is the fastest growing type of packaging, growing at a rate of 6.5% per year from 2015-2020, according to VTT. Plastic films. Fossil-based plastic films still dominate the packaging ...

Non-recyclable plastic pouches have replaced tonnes of recyclable cans, jars, boxes and bags on supermarket shelves, partly because they're considered 'greener.' Here's how they became a problem ...

“Our focus is on household generated waste such as plastic bags, food and consumer goods wrapping, shampoo and cosmetic sachets, pet food and detergent ‘stand-up’ pouches,” Tickner explains.