Understanding the Role of Compostable Packaging
The guide helps brands prevent problems down the road by evaluating which applications are the best fit for compostable packaging.
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Guide to Verifying Responsible Sourcing of Fiber
This guide provides a primer and resources for paper and paper-based packaging
Legislative Landscape for Chemical Recycling
Covering PCR Recycled Content, Chemical Recycling Legislation, EPR, Recovery and Policy.
Can Packaging Help Divert Food Waste?
Case studies of two quick-service restaurant (QSR) chains in Vermont & New York.
Paper Packaging Design Guides
Covers currently available and in-development paper packaging design guides for recyclability.
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.