Extended Producer Responsibility
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What It Really Takes to Design for Circularity
We hope that by sharing our approach, we’ll continue to inspire other companies to take similar action — driving more climate progress across their organization and the world. ... View More
Sustainable Packaging’s Biggest Challenge? Human Nature
As EPR laws take hold and consumer expectations rise, the window for proactive collaboration is closing. Brands can put aside their fears around collaboration or risk falling behind. ... View More
EPR Helping Push Sustainable Packaging to a New Level
EPR has already shown the potential to help us enter an era where sustainable packaging plans apply a new set of three Rs: refine, redesign and reimagine. ... View More
Latest Attempt at Global Plastics Treaty Ends in Stalemate
Despite momentum and optimism earlier in the process, the treaty negotiations were increasingly stymied by disagreement around potential approaches. ... View More
RePak Helping Retailers Ratchet Up Bottle-Recycling Efforts
HydraPak has expanded a successful pilot that redirects harder-to-recycle plastics toward potential reuse, but reaching viable scale remains a work in progress. ... View More
Luxury Carmakers Expand Circular Solutions for Auto Industry
JLR, Mercedes-Benz and Volvo are the latest companies embracing circularity to boost resilience and stability of their operations and supply chains. ... View More
With New Packaging Laws, Constraints Become Your Creative Brief
Instead of approaching these new laws as obstacles, let’s think of them as the roadmap — the 'brief' — behind compliant and truly creative sustainable branding. ... View More
5 Best Practices to Discover EPR Cost Savings in Your Packaging Data
Businesses are required in certain states to collect and report packaging data — so if your company must gather packaging data anyway, why not use it to reduce packaging waste (and EPR fees!)? ... View More
New Study Challenges Circular Fashion’s Sustainability Potential
The devil’s in the details: Researchers assert circular fashion’s economic and environmental benefits have been grossly overstated, and more clarity and due diligence are critical. ... View More
Meet ‘Zuzu,’ on a Hero’s Journey to Improve Plastics Recycling
New advocacy campaign from SC Johnson features an intrepid hermit crab, calls for collective action and urges greater business responsibility in reining in plastic pollution. ... View More
First Citywide Reusable Cup Project Shows Viability of Reuse at Scale
In three months, the first citywide program in the US to offer a free reuse-and-return system for to-go cups produced environmental benefits when compared with a single-use alternative. ... View More
New Cross-Industry Consortium Takes Aim at Small-Format Plastic Waste
Closed Loop Partners’ Center for the Circular Economy calls on brands to join critical work to increase recovery of valuable small-format plastic packaging typically lost to landfills. ... View More
BMW Group Expands Circular Supply Chain for EV Batteries
After establishing a system for harvesting cobalt, lithium and nickel from its high-voltage batteries in China, a new partnership extends the effort to its EU supply chain — with the US, Mexico and Canada to follow. ... View More
Black Friday Clothing Zombie ‘Speaks Volumes’ About Overproduction in Fashion
The demonstration is part of the Or Foundation’s Speak Volumes campaign, a global initiative calling on fashion brands to declare their production volumes to help clean up the industry's waste crisis. ... View More
Unwrapping the Holiday Returns Crisis: The Hidden Costs of Convenience
Product returns should no longer be viewed as an inevitable cost of doing business but as an opportunity to innovate. It’s time to broaden consumer awareness of the fate of most returned goods and change that story by closing the loop. ... View More
Startups, Consumers Helping Brands Make Business ‘Future Positive’
In keynotes on day 3 of SB’24 San Diego, major players in electronics, beauty, retail and recycling extolled the virtues of partnering with stakeholders to drive sustainability and circularity initiatives both inside and outside their companies. ... View More
Industry Players Continue Multi-Pronged Effort to Reduce Fashion’s Impacts
Latest initiatives include circularity advocates and resellers working to end double taxation on secondhand fashion, a sustainable detergent brand’s continued efforts to reduce the impacts of laundry, and a recycled edition of a beloved clog. ... View More
Report: Investors Must Shift Priorities to Effectively Tackle Plastic Pollution
The Circulate Initiative’s latest Plastics Circularity Investment Tracker reveals investment amounts not only fall short of financing needs across the plastic lifecycle, too many are focused on reactive — vs proactive — solutions. ... View More
Reuse and Circularity Pilots Taking Off Inside Major Sports, Entertainment Venues
Beverage giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo are among companies working with partners to swap out single-use cups and trays for reusable serveware systems at big events. ... View More
Starbucks, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo Lead Brands Launching First City-Wide Reuse System
The collaboration, led by the NextGen Consortium, makes reusable cups the default option in over 30 national and local restaurants across the City of Petaluma, California. ... View More
