Sway Seaweed Packaging Named TIME Best Invention of 2025: A Sea Change in Sustainable Packaging

Sustainability in Packaging

Sway Seaweed Packaging has been named one of TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025. Sway is a material innovation company creating compostable solutions for plastic made with seaweed. Sway’s flagship product, TPSea Flex™, a seaweed-based flexible film that is designed...

Wes Carter Joins Keep America Beautiful® Board

Conservation

Keep America Beautiful®, the nation’s leading community improvement nonprofit, has appointed Wes Carter, President of Atlantic Packaging, to its National Board of Directors. Corporate Social Responsibility  Founded in 1953, Keep America Beautiful® inspires and...

Sierra Features Sustainability Director Caroline DeLoach in Pet Industry Circularity Article

Press, Sustainability in Packaging

Sierra, the magazine of the Sierra Club, featured Atlantic Packaging Sustainability Director Caroline DeLoach in an article on circularity in the pet industry. Read the full article here! Optimized packaging, cleaner ingredients, and recycling programs are creating a...

Sustainable Packaging Data Council Formation

Sustainability in Packaging

Specright — known for its specification management software — has convened the Sustainable Packaging Data Council to harmonize sustainability data and speed up Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) reporting, according to a recent press release. The council debuts...

Dimensional weight rule changes: FedEx rounds up; UPS matches

Consulting

Effective Aug. 18, 2025: FedEx now rounds any fractional inch up to the next whole inch for each package dimension before calculating dimensional (DIM) and billable weight. UPS adopted the same rule the same day. What this means Old: Sub-half-inch fractions often...