New paper packaging developments caught your eye in 2020, along with news of refills and recyclable flexible packaging, as seen in our list of best-read articles about sustainability.

Packaging Digest dips into its value-vault of trendy content from the past year — pointing out 13 potential routes for packaging peeps looking for sustainability strategies, branding bravados, food fantasies, and more.

The Bureau’s first major update in decades affects labeling for distilled spirits, wine, beer, and hard seltzers. Surprisingly, it gives industry greater flexibility in certain areas, including loosening some COVID-19 restrictions.

Pixels from 2,422 packaged product images from Walmart’s online grocery service were analyzed by an algorithm to determine the most common food and beverage design colors by category.

Analysis across 10 categories and nearly 2,500 grocery products reveals which hues are commonly used to assist and influence consumers’ buying habits.

Eco-Tite R meets polyethylene stream requirements and is engineered to maximize shelf life, maintain food safety, and reduce food waste for meat, poultry, and cheese.

Packaging sustainability has advanced in 2020, despite the year’s almost insurmountable health, social, and economic challenges. The industry has taken deep strides in flexible packaging recycling, circular economy commitments, and plastic waste...