Category: Sustainable Packaging

Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging: State Legislation Overview

What is EPR for Packaging? Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws shift the financial and operational burden of packaging waste management from municipalities and taxpayers to producers (e.g., manufacturers, brand owners, importers, or distributors). These laws aim to reduce packaging waste, increase recycling rates, and promote sustainable packaging design. As of 2025, seven

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What’s New in Packaging EPR?

As the push for sustainability gains traction across the U.S., five states—Oregon, Colorado, Maine, California, and Minnesota—are setting the pace in implementing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws for packaging. These laws shift the cost and responsibility of packaging waste management from municipalities to producers, aiming to create a circular economy

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How Plastic Packaging Affects the Environment

You’ve seen it before: A sea turtle caught in a wasted fishnet or struggling inside of a plastic bag. It’s the most evocative image in the work to change the way that humans use plastic, but the challenge is far from simple. Plastic packaging has had a growing environmental impact

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Introduction to Flexible Packaging Recovery

Introduction to Flexible Packaging Recovery  October 16, 2023 Eagle Flexible Packaging is fully committed to providing sustainable packaging solutions for a wide range of food and non-food industries. Our compostable, recyclable packaging products, with PCR (Post Consumer Recycled content), from renewable sources, and premium traditional packaging materials are chosen to

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Store Drop Off Flexible Packaging - Eagle Flexible Packaging

Store Drop Off Flexible Packaging

Eagle Flexible Packaging is fully committed to providing sustainable packaging materials for a wide range of food and non-food industries. We have a variety of options when it comes to sustainable packaging such as Recyclable, PCR (Post-Consumer Recycled content), from Renewable sources and compostable films. We also offer traditional packaging

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Spooky, Sustainable Packaging Ideas for Halloween

Spooky, Sustainable Candy Packaging Ideas for Halloween

It’s estimated that for every trick-or-treater one pound of waste is produced. That waste includes pumpkins, single use costumes, party supplies and of course, candy wrappers. Candy wrappers are notoriously hard to recycle, largely due to their size and their materials.

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Sustainable Supplement Packaging

Sustainable Supplement Packaging

At Eagle Flexible Packaging, we know how important it is to make careful choices about how we package our products. When marketing your nutraceutical product, it’s important to choose a design that catches your customer’s attention and showcases your brand’s values. Our industry-leading flexible packaging is customizable for your specific products and audiences. Make your supplement stand out while taking care of the planet with our sustainable supplement packaging solutions.

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Sustainable Snack Packaging

Sustainable Snack Packaging

Consumers are increasingly looking to the convenience of ready-to-eat, on-the-go snack foods to get them through the day. Fueled by an explosion in demand for both sweet and salty indulgences as well as healthy snack alternatives, food brands are increasingly focused on not only providing a quality snack product, but reducing their carbon footprint through initiatives like sustainable snack packaging.

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Eagle Wins Gold Award for Sustainable Packaging

Eagle Flexible Packaging, Inc. (Eagle) is proud to announce that it has earned the Flexible Packaging Association’s (FPA) 2021 Gold Award for Flexible Packaging Achievement in Sustainability. The honor was bestowed as part of the FPA’s 65th annual Achievement Awards. The Achievement Awards recognize packaging and converting excellence in the flexible packaging industry.

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Understanding Compostable Packaging

At Eagle Flexible Packaging, the compostable films we use are in compliance with ASTM D6400/6868 and/or EN13432. These films on their own, are compostable and can be used alone, or in combination, to provide flexible structures for a variety of packaging formats.

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Sustainable Packaging Options

Sustainable Packaging Solutions

Eagle Flexible Packaging is fully committed to be the industry leader in sustainable packaging solutions for a wide range of food and non-food industries. Our compostable, recyclable, renewable, post-consumer recycled content, and premium packaging materials are chosen specifically to minimize negative environmental impact. “Sustainable development is development that meets the

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convenience and sustainability driving flexible packaging growth

Convenience and Sustainability Driving Flexible Packaging Growth

The explosion of growth in the flexible packaging industry isn’t slowing in the foreseeable future due to convenience and sustainability. In fact, it’s increasing year over year as it’s adopted both by new markets, industries, and brands (large and small), and by established brands to replace their conventional packaging. According

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Recycling Partnership: Roadmap to a U.S. Circular Economy

The Recycling Partnership: Roadmap to a U.S. Circular Economy

The ultimate goal of sustainability is a circular economy—a particularly important goal for the packaging industry. Reducing waste is a great goal, but eliminating it is the ultimate plan of the Recycling Partnership, a U.S. nonprofit working hard to transform how Americans recycle. To that end, the Recycling Partnership recently

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Plastics and Sustainability in Pet Food Packaging

Single-use plastics seem to get all the attention these days as consumers and corporations alike aim to reduce our impact on the environment and make more responsible, sustainable choices. Though much of the discussion revolves around water bottles, plastic straws, and other tableware, pet food packaging has increasingly migrated from paper

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Consumers Mean to Buy Sustainable, But Do They? They Sure Do!

For all the big talk, are consumers actually buying sustainable products? Many company executives have doubted the follow-through of buyers and discouraged investing in sustainable supplies, packaging, and processes. If consumers don’t put their dollars where their mouths are, does it justify the business costs? But it turns out that

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