“Producer Responsibility is a business, and the brand owners will be a key stakeholder in that,” says AMERIPEN executive director Dan Felton in this 30-minute podcast about packaging policy predictions for 2021.
Felton has identified two policies he feels are most likely in the coming year:
1. Industry financing proposals, including Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) at a state level;
2. Recycled content mandates.
• Who is likely to pay?
• How will the funds be used and to what benefit?
• With so many brands advancing sustainable packaging voluntarily, why is producer responsibility legislation even needed?
• How can brands selling nationally and globally manage possible mandates at the state level?
The Flexible Packaging Association (FPA) has released its newest sustainability report, a Flexible Packaging Path to a Circular Economy; the report explores the future of sustainability and flexible packaging through 2030 and contains roadmaps that were developed to advance sustainability and circular economy packaging efforts.
FPA partnered with PTIS, LLC, and Priority Metrics Group (PMG) on this research report that explores the future of sustainability and flexible packaging through 2030. It provides information related to flexible packaging and sustainability, circular economy, legislative trends, impacts to the industry, along with key outcomes and actions to enable the industry to align with circular economy principles.