Practical guides and market insight for pet food brands.
Grease-proofing PFAS are gone from US food packaging, including pet food bags. Here's the documentation exporters need as state bans keep expanding.
The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation applies from August 12, 2026 — with recyclability targets by 2030. What it means for pet food brands selling in Europe.
ExxonMobil and Bandera show conventional blown-film lines can now produce recyclable all-PE pet food pouches with PET-like stiffness — a cost milestone for sustainable packaging.
At the world's largest pet trade fair in Nuremberg, lightweight, recyclable, and PFAS-free pet food packaging set the agenda. The takeaways for North American brands watching from home.
New market research puts global pet food packaging at $12.3 billion in 2025, growing 5.7% a year. Bags and pouches lead the way — and recyclable designs are winning the shelf.
A California class action against major pet food brands over "forever chemicals" in packaging is nearing class certification. What DTC brands should learn before it reaches their shelf.
While Congress debates federal PFAS bills, US states are already enforcing their own packaging rules. A practical map of the 2025 landscape for pet food brands selling nationally.
A major European converter replaced non-recyclable multi-material laminate with a mono-PE structure — keeping high-barrier performance for kibble. Proof that recyclable and high-barrier now go together.
The EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation officially entered into force on February 11, 2025 — setting a hard legal clock toward recyclable-only packaging by 2030.
The FDA made the PFAS phase-out official: 35 grease-proofing food-contact notices lost effectiveness on January 6, 2025, with a final sell-through deadline of June 30, 2025.
Late 2024 saw the EU formally adopt the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation — the most consequential packaging law in a generation. Here's what it locks in.
A flexible pouch that says "recyclable" must survive real-world sorting. How labeling programs and store drop-off streams shaped honest claims in 2024.
The 2024 announcement that closed the era of "forever chemicals" in US food packaging — including pet food bags — and set the template for everything that followed.
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