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June 30, 2025

Change Hurts: Earn Consumers’ Trust Through Sustainable Packaging Transitions

June 30, 2025

The Changemakers’ Corner: Celebrating our Members’ Progress & Commitments

June 25, 2025

The Current State of North American Film Recyclers and a Call to Action

June 23, 2025

Packaging Policy Roundup

May 30, 2025

Switch the Script: Three Keys to Sustainable Packaging Adoption

May 13, 2025

National Study Shows Widespread Access to Store Drop-off Collection for PE Film

May 12, 2025

Harmonization in Action: Four Key Lessons from SPC Impact 2025

April 30, 2025

SPC’s Sustainable Packaging Trends Report: Four Trends Shaping Packaging in 2025

March 27, 2025

New to sustainable packaging? Seven steps to get started in packaging sustainability

January 27, 2025

Three Behavior Change Principles to Advance Sustainable Packaging

January 27, 2025

Taking Big Swings: Three Sustainable Packaging Strategies

January 13, 2025

Empowering Future Leaders: The SPC Events Scholarship Program

November 20, 2024

Redrawing the Map: Climate Migration and Sustainable Packaging

November 19, 2024

Get Involved with SPC’s New Collaboratives

A young woman filling her reusable bottle at an airport fountain.

September 20, 2024

How to Make Work Trips More Sustainable: Nine Sustainable Travel Tips from SPC

July 22, 2024

How Sustainable Was SPC Impact? View the SPC Impact 2024 Event Sustainability Report

July 15, 2024

SPC Launches Paper Packaging Recyclability Collaborative

July 15, 2024

From Awareness to Action: Reshaping the Dialogue on Plastic Pollution

Paul Nowak interviews Camille Corr Chism to discuss packaging.

June 24, 2024

SPC Launches Inclusion & Representation in Packaging Collaborative

June 20, 2024

What’s New With SPC’s Pillars? Updates on Packaging Innovation, Design, Policy & Recovery

Trash heaps in a landfill.

May 22, 2024

When Our Waste Outlives Us: Lessons for Tackling the Global Waste Crisis

Tom Pollock and Jo Banner sitting at SPC Impact and speaking.

May 3, 2024

From Crisis to Catalyst: New Orleans’ Environmental Action

April 30, 2024

5 Packaging Innovation Trends to watch in 2024

December 12, 2023

Growth in New or Expanded Food Waste Recycling Programs Continued in 2023

November 7, 2023

In Search of the Cleanest Compost: Highlights from BPI’s Inaugural Summit

October 10, 2023

Flexible Film Recycling: Collection Methods of Today and the Future

September 15, 2023

Our Position on Problematic Materials

SPC Innovator Awards

September 12, 2023

SPC’s 2024 Innovator Awards to Highlight Recovery & Systems Change Innovation

August 1, 2023

CleanPackage: Supporting Safe + Circular Materials for Packaging

July 14, 2023

Our Position on Packaging Policy

June 5, 2023

Our Position on Greenwashing

May 25, 2023

The Road to Decarbonization Will Likely Be Lined By Trees

May 23, 2023

GreenBlue’s Commentary on the FTC Green Guides

May 22, 2023

Perspectives from Early Adopters of the RMS

May 15, 2023

How to Leverage LCA to Push Sustainability Goals Forward

May 12, 2023

Collaboration and Coordinated Innovation: The Essentials to Tackling Packaging Waste

April 21, 2023

Much ado about Earth Day

April 20, 2023

Degradability additives in Petroleum-based Plastics

April 6, 2023

How Can the Chemical Recycling Industry Optimize its Role in the Circular Economy for Plastics?

March 8, 2023

“Biodegradable” Packaging

March 1, 2023

“Biorecycling” is Chemical Recycling, and Biorecyclable Packaging Already Exists

February 22, 2023

Can the Latest Paper Packaging Innovations Actually Be Recycled? New Paper Packaging Recyclability Test from Cepi Can Help

January 18, 2023

It Will Take a Village to Recycle All Plastics

December 26, 2022

ICYMI: “Beyond PFAS-free Packaging” Webinar Recap

November 17, 2022

Collaborating to create the future of flexible packaging at SPC Advance 2022

November 15, 2022

GreenBlue/SPC California Regional Film & Bag Study Results

November 10, 2022

Getting Clear on Compostable Packaging with a Practitioner’s Roadmap

October 28, 2022

What Prompts Investment in PHA: Insights from a Value Chain Collaboration

October 28, 2022

Overcoming the Challenges of Qualifying Innovations in the Recycling Stream

October 26, 2022

2022 SPC Innovator Award Winners Announced

August 25, 2022

Going beyond SMART – Why you might want to set FASTER sustainable packaging goals

July 30, 2021

SPC Releases Comprehensive Update of its Centralized Availability of Recycling Study

May 19, 2021

Produce Stickers: The Benefits of Going Compostable

May 12, 2021

Produce Stickers: Are They the Next Straw?

May 5, 2021

Produce Stickers: A Small but Mighty Problem

Industry News

Industry News

November 8, 2023

International Negotiating Committee (INC) Develops Guidance, Criteria to Combat Plastic Pollution

May 23, 2023

Digital print: How far do we still have to go?

May 23, 2023

Flexible film recycling project debuts in Canada

May 17, 2023

Climate tech needs a lesson in circularity

May 8, 2023

The next frontier in California organics recycling: edible food recovery

February 7, 2023

Food Waste In America: One Big Issue, Many Possible Solutions

May 18, 2022

Methodology Matters