Paper Packaging Design Guides
Covers currently available and in-development paper packaging design guides for recyclability.
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Evaluating Store Drop-off as a Pathway for Film Recycling
This resource evaluates the current state of the Store Drop-off program and explores potential solutions and strategies to address the gaps identified.
Degradability Additives in Petroleum-Based Plastics
The SPC does not support the use of any kind of degradability additives in packaging, including additives that seek to make packaging more degradable.
Problematic Materials
The Problematic Materials workstream worked with The Plastics Pact Activators to to eliminate problematic and unnecessary resins, components, and formats by 2025.
“Biodegradable” Packaging
The SPC recommends that packaging companies do not use the term biodegradable to market their products to suppliers, retailers, or consumers.
Greenwashing
The SPC recommends a definition of greenwashing to enable more fruitful conversations about environmental marketing, on-pack eco-labeling, and consumer education.
Packaging Policy
In the context of GreenBlue, packaging policy is a term referring to political efforts from governments, corporations, or other organizations working in the sustainable packaging field on a global scale.
Reuse
To enable successful reusable packaging systems, the SPC believes in a holistic definition of reusable packaging that includes intentionality, system boundaries, and assured environmental benefit.
Chemical Recycling
Chemical recycling refers to a spectrum of physical and chemical processes for transforming plastic or polymer waste into new products. Chemical recycling technologies fall under three main categories: purification, depolymerization, and conversion.
A Primer on Recycled Plastic Packaging
PCR Primer for Retail Teams focused in Policy, Purchasing, Sourcing, Design, and Product Development surrounding plastic packaging.
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) Producer Exemptions
This EPR policy resource clarifies who is responsible for the covered product who is responsible for contributing to the financial, operational, or combined program.
Intro to Chemical Recycling
Increased transparency around impacts, green chemistry principles, and collaboration to strengthen the entire. recycling system are crucial to the successful implementation of chemical recycling.
Intro to End Markets for Hard-to-Recycle Plastics
The circularity of hard-to-recycle plastics benefits from design for recyclability, improved infrastructure for collection and sortation, and increased demand pull from end markets.
EPR for Packaging in the US: Covered Products and Exemptions
Policy resource on what’s covered and what’s exempt in the United States under Extender Producer Responsibility (EPR) for packaging.
Designing for End of Life by Product Category
Applying the right solution to the appropriate packaging challenge will offer the best use of stakeholders’ resources.
Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging in the United States: Acronyms & Abbreviations
This quick reference guide provides an overview of common acronyms and abbreviations that are frequently used at when discussing extended producer responsibility (EPR).