Post-consumer recycled content (“PCR”) plays an important role in extended producer responsibility (“EPR”) programs for packaging. Among other purposes, the EPR programs are intended to ...

The company said three other Kromekote products will feature 30 percent PCW content by this fall. Other products are being reviewed for higher levels of post-consumer waste fibers. SMART Papers' ...

RTP Co., a compounder of custom engineered thermoplastics, is making available a series of specialty compounds using post-consumer content resins. “Our PCC compounds have distinct environmental ...

The new standard does require more recycled content for other materials. Glass packaging must have 25 percent post-consumer recycled content, metal 30 percent and fiber, cardboard and paper 50 ...

And the FTC is updating the Green Guides, which spell out how companies can advertise recycled content in sustainable products. Those officials, too, are considering whether to allow mass balance.

For example, this year, Post Consumer Brands hit the 90% mark in the approximate weight of cereal packaging now made from recycled content or renewable resources and designed to be recyclable.

Sustainable toilet paper can be made of recycled paper, bamboo or other alternatives to virgin wood fiber. We tested for softness, strength and absorbency.