The U.S. Plastics Pact developed its latest strategic plan to help companies change how they design, use, and reuse plastics in their packaging. Roadmap 2.0 is an actionable plan designed to transform the use of plastics, focusing on practical steps to create a circular economy where plastic packaging is reused, recycled, composted, and kept within the economy instead of becoming waste.
Continuing a Path to a Circular Economy
The U.S. Plastics Pact brings together partners across the entire plastics value chain to reach a unified Vision of a circular economy for plastics. Our 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.
Roadmap 2.0 begins where Roadmap to 2025 ends — carrying forward Targets, Outcomes, and Deliverables not yet fully achieved, pushing further those that have been successful, and implementing new, necessary objectives born from what was learned during the U.S. Pact’s original strategic plan. The five Targets of Roadmap 2.0 outline the U.S. Pact’s focus for the next phase of its Mission. These Targets are interconnected; the success of one Target relies on the successful progress of the others.
Roadmap 2.0 focuses on five Targets to address plastic waste at its source:
