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 ...

According to a 2013 study by PCI Films Consulting, 17 billion plastic pouches ended up in landfills throughout the U.S. that year and production is expected to reach 24 billion plastic pouches by 2018 ...

Biodegradable and compostable bags are meant to solve these problems, but the study indicates that’s not the case so far. These alternative bags aren’t meant to end up as litter in the street ...