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.
Our Mission & Vision
MISSION: The U.S. Plastics Pact brings together the full plastic packaging value chain in a collaborative forum to drive measurable, system-wide progress by advancing solutions and informing policies that keep materials in use, reduce waste, and deliver environmental, social, and economic benefits.
VISION: A world where plastic packaging stays in use, out of nature, and contributes to a thriving economy, healthy communities, and a cleaner environment.
Solutions-focused engagement across the packaging system
The U.S. Plastics Pact is a voluntary, participant-driven initiative. We act as a convenor across the plastics packaging value chain bringing together brands, retailers, manufacturers, recyclers, resin producers, governments, NGOs, and others to advance a more circular packaging system. In a circular system, materials are designed to remain in use by being efficiently produced, used as intended, and then collected for reuse, recycling, or composting.
Achieving that system requires innovation and investment. The USPP facilitates cross-sector work among its members (Activators) to identify challenges, share expertise, and develop practical solutions. Through technical workstreams and collaborative initiatives, participants contribute sector-specific perspectives that inform guidance documents and other resources. These materials are intended to provide information and may be considered and used by organizations as they evaluate opportunities to advance environmentally and economically sustainable circular packaging systems.
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.