Photo courtesy of Accredo Packaging Inc.
Sugar Land, Texas-based Accredo Packaging Inc., a food and consumer product packaging solutions developer, has released its 2024 Sustainability Impact Report.
Accredo focused on advancements across its three sustainability pillars of reduce, renew and recycle in 2024. The company launched new products with biobased content, increased postconsumer recycled (PCR) content and strengthened internal and external recycling systems.
“We believe sustainability and performance go hand in hand,” Accredo President Mike Mazur says. “This 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.”
Among other key findings of the report, in 2024 Accredo:
launched a 100 percent Braskem “I’m Green” polyethylene (PE) resin pouch made from renewable resin at Pack Expo;
maintained 100 percent wind electricity usage (81 percent of total energy use) in its LEED Silver-certified manufacturing facility;
increased PCR content to 4.28 percent;
reached 8.74 percent total recycled content;
launched a campus-wide recycling program for employees; and
received FTA Best in Show and multiple flexographic awards across print categories.
Accredo’s PCR content increased from 2023 by 2.26 percent, and its post-industrial recycled (PIR) content declined by 1.72 percent. Accredo says the decline was driven by business growth in segments that utilize less PIR. As a result, the company reached 8.75 percent total recycled content, in progress toward its goal of 15 percent total recycled content in 2025.
The company’s planned actions to address the decline in PIR for 2025 include mandating PIR use in eligible product structures, segmenting food-grade and non-food-grade PIR more effectively to optimize utilization and encouraging PIR use on the production floor through enhanced communication and accountability systems.
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