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Packaging Policy Roundup

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Four labeled bins for different types of waste: Food Waste, Trash, Mixed Recycling, and Recycle Plastic Bags and Wraps.
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New SPC study shows majority of Americans aware they can return films through Store Drop-off collection

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Napkin with 100% recycled
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SPC Launches Recycled Content Collaborative

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Robbie Staniforth speaks at SPC Advance 2025.
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The Next 30 Years of U.S. EPR: Six Lessons From Across the Pond

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Collaborative Efforts Renewed on the Global Stage

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SPC Advance 2025 Recap: The Industry is Mobilized — How Can We Use This Momentum to Get it Right?

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SPC’s New Research Shows Significant Growth in Composting Access Nationwide

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SPC’s Retailer Forum Launches New Opportunity for Suppliers to Advance Sustainable Film Packaging

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bales of plastic film wait for recycling
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SPC Seeks to Expand Label for Film and Flexible Recycling Collection

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SPC Announces New Executive Committee Members and Opens Nominations for Three Seats

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Change Hurts: Earn Consumers’ Trust Through Sustainable Packaging Transitions

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

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

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Switch the Script: Three Keys to Sustainable Packaging Adoption

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

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Harmonization in Action: Four Key Lessons from SPC Impact 2025

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

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

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Three Behavior Change Principles to Advance Sustainable Packaging

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Taking Big Swings: Three Sustainable Packaging Strategies

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Empowering Future Leaders: The SPC Events Scholarship Program

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Redrawing the Map: Climate Migration and Sustainable Packaging

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Get Involved with SPC’s New Collaboratives

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A young woman filling her reusable bottle at an airport fountain.
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How to Make Work Trips More Sustainable: Nine Sustainable Travel Tips from SPC

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

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SPC Launches Paper Packaging Recyclability Collaborative

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From Awareness to Action: Reshaping the Dialogue on Plastic Pollution

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Paul Nowak interviews Camille Corr Chism to discuss packaging.
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SPC Launches Inclusion & Representation in Packaging Collaborative

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

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Trash heaps in a landfill.
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When Our Waste Outlives Us: Lessons for Tackling the Global Waste Crisis

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Tom Pollock and Jo Banner sitting at SPC Impact and speaking.
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From Crisis to Catalyst: New Orleans’ Environmental Action

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5 Packaging Innovation Trends to watch in 2024

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

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

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Flexible Film Recycling: Collection Methods of Today and the Future

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Our Position on Problematic Materials

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

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CleanPackage: Supporting Safe + Circular Materials for Packaging

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Our Position on Packaging Policy

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Our Position on Greenwashing

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The Road to Decarbonization Will Likely Be Lined By Trees

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GreenBlue’s Commentary on the FTC Green Guides 

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Perspectives from Early Adopters of the RMS

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How to Leverage LCA to Push Sustainability Goals Forward

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Collaboration and Coordinated Innovation: The Essentials to Tackling Packaging Waste

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Much ado about Earth Day

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Degradability additives in Petroleum-based Plastics

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

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“Biodegradable” Packaging

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

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

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It Will Take a Village to Recycle All Plastics

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ICYMI: “Beyond PFAS-free Packaging” Webinar Recap

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

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GreenBlue/SPC California Regional Film & Bag Study Results

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Getting Clear on Compostable Packaging with a Practitioner’s Roadmap

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

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Overcoming the Challenges of Qualifying Innovations in the Recycling Stream

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2022 SPC Innovator Award Winners Announced

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

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SPC Releases Comprehensive Update of its Centralized Availability of Recycling Study

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Produce Stickers: The Benefits of Going Compostable

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Produce Stickers: Are They the Next Straw?

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Produce Stickers: A Small but Mighty Problem

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