Circular economy
One’s trash is another’s treasure: European circularity moves from ambition to regulation
The EU is moving from circular-economy ambition toward binding market rules.
Exclusive Unwrapped: Plastic packaging matters | August 2026
Unwrapped Q3 explores how PPWR, EPR, recyclability standards, feedstocks, and tariffs are reshaping the packaging value chain.
Exclusive Unwrapped: Plastic packaging matters | March 2026
Geopolitical tensions, evolving regulation, and weakening recycling economics are colliding to reshape plastic packaging supply chains, costs, and compliance worldwide.
Straight from the field: Sustainability insights from US beef, dairy, and crop producers
Technology adoption, incentive programs, and personal business goals are shaping how producers define and achieve sustainability across diverse agricultural operations.
Exclusive Europe’s sugar industry turns to diversification and upcycling amid market pressures
Facing market volatility and declining sugar consumption, EU sugar companies are turning to upcycling and diversifying into functional ingredients and biochemicals...
Exclusive Unwrapped: Plastic packaging matters | September 2025
In a new edition of Unwrapped, we discuss plastic packaging developments in the US and EU, including the latest in recycling, legislation, and consumer trends.
Exclusive Hooked on scarcity: Navigating aquafeed nutrition amid looming marine ingredient shortages
As the volume of high-value species increases and the aquaculture industry adopts more intensive farming practices, finding novel feed sources will be essential in securi
Exclusive Global egg industry outlook 2035: Long-term egg market and investment perspectives
The global egg market is set to expand by 22% by 2035, with emerging markets, new consumer trends, and supply chain innovation shaping industry growth and investment.
EU Steel and Metals Action Plan: Aligning industrial policy without new tools
The SMAP aims to strengthen the EU’s competitiveness in steel and metals production while accelerating decarbonization, but it lacks new tools or additional funding.
Brand new, secondhand: A push for circularity could reinvigorate US cotton demand
Apparel companies’ push for a more responsible value chain represents a major opportunity for the US cotton industry.
The great pullback: How waning sustainability ambitions impact US packaging producers
Many major US brands are scaling back their 2025 packaging sustainability goals, shifting from pledges to pragmatism amid economic, regulatory and infrastructure hurdles.
Waste deep: A growing backlash against fast fashion could spell new opportunity for US cotton
Fast fashion fuels textile waste. This report explores the backlash and how US fibers, especially cotton, could benefit from a shift to sustainability.
Exclusive Unwrapped: Plastic packaging matters | May 2025
Plastic packaging faces global shifts: Europe bets on recycling, US policy turns volatile under Trump.
Exclusive PPWR finally approved: Changes ahead for the European packaging and packaging waste industry
The PPWR will soon enter into force. We examine the adjustments made in the negotiations and how the EU packaging and packaging waste value chain can become compliant.
Pack Expo 2024: Key trends in plastics
We outline some of the themes and takeaways that our team found most intriguing and recurrent when talking with exhibitors and attendees.
The EU’s Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation is closer to becoming law
We outline what’s in the European Parliament and Council’s tentative deal on the rules to be included in the final Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation.
The Takeoff of the Passenger Electric Vehicle Market: A Pathway Toward the EU’s 2030 E-Mobility Targets
The passenger electric vehicle car is taking off in the EU, supported by extensive decarbonization policies. The article analyzes drivers of the process such as GDP.
Will COP15 Be the ‘Paris-moment’ for Nature?
What’s on the table of COP15 and why? What is the position financial institutions are in to reverse global biodiversity loss and capital on nature-positive opportunities.