TIPA has joined the U.S. Plastics Pact, a solutions-focused consortium that brings together partners across the entire plastics value chain to reach a unified vision of a circular economy for plastics.
The U.S. Pact’s vision is a world where plastics never become waste by eliminating the plastics we don’t need, ensuring that the plastics we do need are reusable, recyclable or compostable, and circulating all the plastics we use to keep them in the economy and out of the environment, according to a news release.
As part of the U.S. Plastics Pact, activators like TIPA recognize that significant, systemwide change is imperative to realize a circular economy for plastics, the release said. As such, the U.S. Pact is convening more than 130 businesses, retailers, not-for-profit organizations, government agencies and research institutions across the plastics value chain to bring one voice to U.S. packaging through national initiatives and innovative solutions for rethinking products, packaging and business models.
“At TIPA, we believe that the future of packaging must align with nature’s own cycle — where materials break down and return to the earth without leaving harmful waste behind,” said Rodrigo Castaneda, vice president, general manager of North America for TIPA. “By joining the U.S. Plastics Pact, we are strengthening our commitment to driving systemic change in the packaging industry, ensuring that compostable solutions play a key role in the transition to a circular economy. Collaboration is essential to solving the global plastics crisis, and we are proud to be part of this collective effort to redefine the future of packaging.”
“The U.S. Plastics Pact continues to break new ground and make progress toward a more circular economy for plastics packaging in the U.S.,” said Emily Tipaldo, executive director of U.S. Pact. “Without the work of the U.S. Pact and its activators, we would not see the level of national alignment and desire for a universal instrument to address plastic pollution.”
Achieving this vision will require new levels of accountability from all facets of the plastics supply chain. The U.S. Pact emphasizes measurable change, and, as such, TIPA is committed to transparent, annual reporting via WWF’s ReSource: Plastic Footprint Tracker, which will be used to document annual progress against the U.S. Pact’s four targets. The U.S. Pact’s Roadmap to 2025 identifies key milestones and national solutions to achieving the U.S. targets and realize a circular economy in which plastic never becomes waste. Its Baseline Report illustrates where the journey begins and where the U.S. Pact will focus efforts to propel the monumental change required to create a circular economy for plastic packaging, the release said.
Further information on the U.S. Plastics Pact, visit usplasticspact.org/.
