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Consumers are making it clear: They want plastic that uses higher percentages of post-consumer recycled (PCR) materials, and they want their used containers to be easier to recycle. There was lots to fit the bill at PACK EXPO Las Vegas.

s determined to keep PET soda bottles, water bottles, and thermoform packaging out of landfills—so much so that it built its own in-house recycling facility. It then creates its EcoStar PCR material from the recycled PET (rPET). “Post-consumer is us collecting the bottles and thermoforms from what you call trash, essentially, bringing that back to our facility in Madison, Wisconsin, recycling that, cleaning that, washing that, turning it back into a usable piece, which