Report Overview
The 2024–25 Impact Report highlights steady, measurable progress on its Roadmap 2.0 strategic plan:
- 54 percent of plastic packaging placed on the market by U.S. Plastics Pact members (called Activators) is now reusable, recyclable, or compostable, up from 36 percent in 2021.
- The average use of postconsumer recycled or responsibly sourced biobased content has increased to 14 percent, up from 8 percent in 2021.
- More companies than ever before are also choosing to avoid items on the USPP’s Problematic and Unnecessary Materials List.
Together, these gains reflect concrete decisions that are increasingly showing up in products on shelves.
Data Highlights
The report shares the USPP’s aggregate data toward achieving these ambitious goals and covers key actions the USPP and its Activators have taken in 2024.
The data helps the USPP have a better understanding of the scale of the challenge and action steps we must take to address the gap.
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- 3.58 million MT of the total weight of plastics placed on the U.S. market was produced by USPP Activators in 2024.
- Top 3 plastic packaging formats represented within the USPP by tonnage were PET bottles, pallet wrap (under B2B PE flexibles), and other flexibles (incl. multimaterials).
Progress Since the 2023-24 Impact Report
U.S. Plastics Pact progress since the publication of the 2023-24 Impact Report includes:
- 29% of business Activators did not sell any items on the current Problematics and Unnecessary Materials List, up from 22% the previous year
- Increase in reusable, recyclable, or compostable plastic packaging from 50% to 54%
- Increased the use of post-consumer recycled content (PCR) in plastic packaging from 11% to 14% average PCR or responsibly sourced biobased content
- Implementation of Roadmap 2.0, the U.S. Pact’s next strategic plan, introducing a 5th Target focused on reusable packaging systems.
“Progress is real, but it is not automatic...
The Impact Report takes a clear-eyed view of the scale and complexity of the work ahead, outlining where progress is building and where additional alignment and investment are still needed to achieve circular outcomes at scale. USPP Activators understand that circularity is a long-term system transformation. Roadmap 2.0 is about giving them the tools, clarity, and collaboration they need to turn commitment into durable, real-world impact.”
Jonathan Quinn, USPP President & CEO