Retailers’ Guide: Collecting Plastic Film Through Store Drop-off
Insights into best practices for Store Drop-off programs to improve plastic film collection.
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Chemical Recycling Q&A
A resource designed to explain chemical recycling technologies relevant to packaging.
Guide to Recycled Plastics: Part 3
This guide to recycled plastics aims to empower brands and their suppliers with an expanded knowledge of policy and legislation.
Guide to Recycled Plastics: Part 2
This guide to recycled plastics aims to empower brands and their suppliers with the knowledge to improve sourcing of recycled plastic.
Guide to Recycled Plastics: Part 1
This guide to recycled plastics aims to empower brands and their suppliers with the knowledge necessary to expand usage of recycled plastic.
Intro to Flexible Packaging Recovery
Despite the benefits, flexible packaging is a challenge. Improved recovery is key to closing the loop for this material.
Legislative Landscape for Chemical Recycling
Covering PCR Recycled Content, Chemical Recycling Legislation, EPR, Recovery and Policy.
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.
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.
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.