{"id":9799,"date":"2025-10-15T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=9799"},"modified":"2025-10-15T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:32:00","slug":"accredo-packaging-releases-2024-sustainability-impact-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=9799","title":{"rendered":"Accredo Packaging Releases 2024 Sustainability Impact Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Accredo Packaging, Inc., a leading developer of innovative packaging solutions for the food and consumer products industries, has released its 2024 Sustainability Impact Report, showcasing its commitment to responsible use, continuous improvement and long-term sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>Since its founding in 2009, increased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/topics\/3782-sustainable-flexible-packaging\" id=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">sustainability<\/a> has been one of Accredo Packaging\u2019s foundational values, alongside ownership, safety, quality and commitment. For 15 years, the company has powered its manufacturing facility with 100% wind-generated electricity. This long-standing commitment reflects Accredo\u2019s ongoing efforts to reduce carbon emissions and establishes a high standard for more sustainable manufacturing within the packaging industry. The report details Accredo\u2019s continued progress toward building a more sustainable future for flexible packaging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe sustainability and performance go hand in hand,\u201d said Mike Mazur, President, Accredo Packaging. \u201cThis commitment guides us to design award-winning packaging solutions that combine exceptional quality and more circular design with measurable improvements in specific metrics of environmental impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/articles\/105722-accredo-packaging-and-verde-environmental-technologies-to-present-at-global-pouch-forum\" id=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Accredo<\/a> made significant advancements across its three sustainability pillars of Reduce, Renew and Recycle. This included launching new products with biobased content, increasing post-consumer recycled (PCR) content and strengthening internal and external recycling systems.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 Sustainability Report outlines Accredo\u2019s progress in advancing its environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals. Key report highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Launched the industry\u2019s first 100% Braskem \u201cI\u2019m Green\u201d PE resin pouch with zipper closure, also made from renewable resin, at PACK EXPO.<\/li>\n<li>Maintained 100% wind electricity usage (81% of total energy use) in its LEED\u00ae Silver-certified manufacturing facility.<\/li>\n<li>Increased <a href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/keywords\/4288-pcr\" id=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">post-consumer recycled (PCR)<\/a> content to 4.28%, up from 2.02% in 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Reached 8.74% total recycled content.<\/li>\n<li>Reduced total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from 184,944.69 tCO2e in 2023 to 179,562 tCO2e, a reduction of nearly 3% year-over-year.<\/li>\n<li>Supported the relaunch of the national flexible film drop-off directory through the Film and Flexibles Recycling Alliance (FFRA), co-founded by Accredo Packaging.<\/li>\n<li>Received FTA Best in Show and multiple flexographic awards across print categories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The full Accredo Packaging 2024 Sustainability Report is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accredopackaging.com\/annualcorporatereport2024\/\" id=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.accredopackaging.com\/annualcorporatereport2024\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.packagingstrategies.com\/articles\/106033-accredo-packaging-releases-2024-sustainability-impact-report\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accredo Packaging, Inc., a leading developer of innovative packaging solutions for the food and consumer products industries, has released its 2024 Sustainability Impact Report, showcasing its commitment to responsible use, continuous improvement and long-term sustainability. Since its founding in 2009, increased sustainability has been one of Accredo Packaging\u2019s foundational values, alongside ownership, safety, quality and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9800,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[171,555,2420,78,54],"class_list":["post-9799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-pcr","tag-pouches","tag-report","tag-resins","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}