Environmental Leadership

FP International has a long commitment to the environment. Environmental consciousness is not a new trend for FP International; it has been the mainstay of the company from its very conception. FP has been consistently ahead in innovation, creating ways to help reduce the environmental impact of our products, saving energy, recycling, and minimizing waste through reusing materials. FP International created the free-flowing, interior packaging material industry in the 1950’s, where loosefill was born from recycling straw-ends which would have otherwise gone to waste. From engineering and manufacturing, to operations and sales, there is constant research and testing to combine environmentally safe material, with the most efficient and best performing protective packaging products.

After inventing polystyrene loosefill, FP International was the first company to design and build a system to recycle post-consumer waste polystyrene foam packaging for use in manufacturing. FP now recycles over 10 million pounds of expanded polystyrene (EPS) packaging annually worldwide and was the first company to make loosefill from 100% recycled material. Our recycling efforts were so successful that FP International received national recognition in 1991, for “significant contributions to environmental improvement through recycling” with the Administrator's Award of the US Environmental Protection Agency. The company has also received numerous state and local awards for environmental commitment and recycling programs.