Tag: U.S. Plastics Pact

U.S. Plastics Pact releases 2023-24 Impact Report

Stuart Mitchell

Only 13.3% of plastic packaging in the U.S. is recycled, a figure unchanged since 2018. A fragmented system, inconsistent standards, and insufficient federal leadership have kept the country stuck in a waste cycle. The U.S. Plastics Pact’s 2023-2024 Impact Report, released recently, shows how over 130 businesses, governments, and nonprofits are making measurable progress in tackling these challenges. The Problem Limited recycling access: Only 43% of households participate, and rates are lower in commercial and public spaces. Market barriers: Virgin plastic remains cheaper than recycled alternatives, stifling demand for sustainable…

Read More

U.S. Plastics Pact Releases Essential Guides to Advance Circular Economy for Plastics

Stuart Mitchell

The U.S. Plastics Pact (U.S. Pact) has released their Design for Circularity Playbooks, three essential reports designed to guide the lifecycle of plastics in the United States. The newly unveiled Design for Recyclability Playbook, Design for Reuse Playbook, and Design for Compostability Playbook provide detailed guidelines to ensure that plastic packaging is continuously reused, recycled, or composted, thereby reducing plastic waste and its environmental impact. A Unified Vision for a Circular Economy The U.S. Plastics Pact is a solutions-focused consortium of businesses, government agencies, NGOs, and research institutions at the…

Read More

U.S. Plastics Pact Launches Roadmap 2.0, Outlining Ambitious Targets toward eliminating Plastic Packaging Waste

Stuart Mitchell

The U.S. Plastics Pact released its latest strategic plan to help companies change how they design, use, and reuse plastics in their packaging. Roadmap 2.0 is an actionable plan designed to transform the use of plastics, focusing on practical steps to create a circular economy where plastic packaging is reused, recycled, composted, and kept within the economy instead of becoming waste. This comprehensive plan builds on the successes and lessons learned from the initial Roadmap to 2025, setting forth updated and ambitious targets to address plastic waste and drive systemic…

Read More

U.S. Plastics Pact’s Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award Helps Businesses Gain Critical Exposure through Walmart to Scale Circular Solutions

Stuart Mitchell

The U.S. Plastics Pact is leveraging Walmart’s Circular Connector to showcase businesses helping to keep plastic packaging in the economy and out of the environment and help make progress on the U.S. Pact’s four targets. “Eliminating problematic and unnecessary plastic packaging and taking other actions to ensure that 100% of plastic packaging is reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025 are focal points of the U.S. Plastics Pact’s work. We are proud to partner with Walmart’s Circular Connector to help advance packaging solutions that contribute to a circular economy,” said U.S.…

Read More

U.S. Plastics Pact Unveils National Strategy to Achieve 2025 Circular Economy Goals

Stuart Mitchell

The U.S. Plastics Pact, a consortium led by The Recycling Partnership and World Wildlife Fund (WWF) as part of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s global Plastics Pact Network, today unveiled an aggressive national strategy to ensure all plastic packaging will be reusable, recyclable, or compostable by 2025. The strategy, titled “Roadmap to 2025,” is supported by nearly 100 corporations, start-ups, research entities, NGOs, universities, and state and local governments across the plastics packaging value chain and includes mandatory reporting and specific timeframes in order to realize meaningful and targeted outcomes for…

Read More