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New Data: California Exceeds National Average on Access to Film and Flexibles Collection at Stores

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SPC Launches Consumer Education Collaborative

Corporate Sustainability Isn’t Going Away — It’s Maturing

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

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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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SPC Launches Recycled Content Collaborative

Robbie Staniforth speaks at SPC Advance 2025.

The Next 30 Years of U.S. EPR: Six Lessons From Across the Pond

Collaborative Efforts Renewed on the Global Stage

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

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

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

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SPC Seeks to Expand Label for Film and Flexible Recycling Collection

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

Change Hurts: Earn Consumers’ Trust Through Sustainable Packaging Transitions

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

Switch the Script: Three Keys to Sustainable Packaging Adoption

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

Harmonization in Action: Four Key Lessons from SPC Impact 2025

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

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

Three Behavior Change Principles to Advance Sustainable Packaging

Taking Big Swings: Three Sustainable Packaging Strategies

Empowering Future Leaders: The SPC Events Scholarship Program

Redrawing the Map: Climate Migration and Sustainable Packaging

Get Involved with SPC’s New Collaboratives

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

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

SPC Launches Paper Packaging Recyclability Collaborative

From Awareness to Action: Reshaping the Dialogue on Plastic Pollution

Paul Nowak interviews Camille Corr Chism to discuss packaging.

SPC Launches Inclusion & Representation in Packaging Collaborative

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

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

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

From Crisis to Catalyst: New Orleans’ Environmental Action

5 Packaging Innovation Trends to watch in 2024

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

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

Flexible Film Recycling: Collection Methods of Today and the Future

Our Position on Problematic Materials

SPC Innovator Awards

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

CleanPackage: Supporting Safe + Circular Materials for Packaging

Our Position on Packaging Policy

Our Position on Greenwashing

The Road to Decarbonization Will Likely Be Lined By Trees

GreenBlue’s Commentary on the FTC Green Guides

Perspectives from Early Adopters of the RMS

How to Leverage LCA to Push Sustainability Goals Forward

Collaboration and Coordinated Innovation: The Essentials to Tackling Packaging Waste

Much ado about Earth Day

Degradability additives in Petroleum-based Plastics

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

“Biodegradable” Packaging

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

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

It Will Take a Village to Recycle All Plastics

ICYMI: “Beyond PFAS-free Packaging” Webinar Recap

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

GreenBlue/SPC California Regional Film & Bag Study Results

Getting Clear on Compostable Packaging with a Practitioner’s Roadmap

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

Overcoming the Challenges of Qualifying Innovations in the Recycling Stream

2022 SPC Innovator Award Winners Announced

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

SPC Releases Comprehensive Update of its Centralized Availability of Recycling Study

Produce Stickers: The Benefits of Going Compostable

Produce Stickers: Are They the Next Straw?

Produce Stickers: A Small but Mighty Problem

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