Policy shifts and market pressures are reshaping packaging decisions.
The U.S. Plastics Pact (USPP) brings together companies and organizations across the entire plastic packaging system to develop and implement practical, scalable solutions for a changing regulatory, market, and operational landscape.
Why collaboration
matters now
No single organization can solve today’s packaging challenges alone. As policies evolve, markets shift, and expectations grow, companies need practical ways to navigate complexity and make progress. Circularity only works if it works across the entire packaging system. Solutions must be technically feasible, economically viable, and scalable across the value chain.
The U.S. Plastics Pact brings the right stakeholders together to develop tools, guidance, and initiatives that organizations can apply in their own work.
Roadmap 2.0: A shared framework for circularity
Roadmap 2.0 reflects the next phase of the U.S. Plastics Pact’s work—building on the foundation established through the Roadmap to 2025 and shifting toward deeper, action-oriented impact. Developed in collaboration with our signatories (or “Activators”), Roadmap 2.0 reflects a more mature understanding of system complexity. It aligns stakeholders around priority actions and focuses collaboration where it can drive the greatest progress.
Roadmap 2.0 focuses on five interconnected Targets that provide a shared direction for advancing circular packaging. Activators support the advancement of these Targets, with each organization determining how—and to what extent—they work toward them based on their own strategies and priorities:
1
Eliminate problematic and unnecessary plastic packaging
Guidance and resources
to support elimination, redesign, and improved material choices
2
Design
all plastic
packaging
for circularity
Guidance and collaboration to advance reusable, recyclable, or compostable packaging design
3
Improve
recycling and composting outcomes
Drive toward 50%
effective recycling or composting
of plastic packaging
4
Increase
the use
of recycled
content
Reach an average of
30% postconsumer
recycled or responsibly
sourced biobased
content in plastic packaging
5
Increase
and scale
reuse
systems
Guidance and collaboration to pilot, expand, and scale reuse models or Informs USPP initiatives, guidance, and resources to advance reuse at scale
Together, these Targets help guide collaborative efforts to reduce plastic waste
and build a more circular plastic packaging system.
Solutions-focused engagement across the packaging system
The U.S. Plastics Pact is a voluntary, participant-driven initiative. Our role is to convene, facilitate, and support collaboration across the packaging system.
Through structured engagement, participants identify shared challenges, test ideas, and develop practical approaches that reflect real-world complexity.
This work is shaped through cross-sector workstreams focused on priority issues, regular Activator engagement and feedback, technical workshops designed to address shared challenges, and strategic input from advisory and sector-specific groups.
Resources & initiatives that support action
The U.S. Plastics Pact develops practical resources to help organizations navigate the transition to circular packaging.
PCR
Toolkit
Guidance and tools to
help organizations
increase the use
of postconsumer
recycled content.
Design for
Circularity
Playbooks
Practical guidance
to support more
circular packaging
design decisions.
Framework for
Film & Flexible
Packaging Circularity
A collaborative
framework focused
on advancing
solutions for
flexible packaging.
Reuse in Retail
Initiative
Exploring scalable
models for reuse in
retail environments.
Turn shared packaging challenges into practical progress.
Join the U.S. Plastics Pact to help develop and advance practical, scalable solutions across the packaging system.