Circularity: Modern Options to Deal with the Plastic Problem

Date/Time: January 17, 2023 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT)

At VERGE 2022, the U.S. Plastics Pact and Walmart introduced the winners of the primary Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award, displaying thrilling improvements within the areas of recyclability, compostability, refill and reuse. The significance of round options is twofold: preserving plastic out of the setting and lowering emissions related to creating virgin packaging supplies. In an hour-long webinar, Greenbiz’s Jon Smieja will chat with leaders from the U.S. Pact, Walmart and the 4 winners to go deeper into their improvements and the way they may help speed up the round transition. Among the many matters they’ll cowl:

• Contemplating the patron expertise when designing for circularity
• Areas the place we urgently want round options
• Getting circularity to scale

Tune in to study these thrilling improvements and why addressing plastic waste should be a crucial part of each enterprise’s local weather motion technique. Check out Walmart’s Round Connector platform.

Moderator:

• Jon Smieja, VP, Circularity & Senior Analyst, GreenBiz Group

Audio system

• Emily Tipaldo, Government Director, U.S. Plastics Pact
• Ashley Corridor, Director, Sustainable Packaging, Walmart 
• Lauren Sweeney, Co-Founder and CEO, DeliverZero
• Ed Haedt, Director of Enterprise Growth, Amcor Flexibles North America
• Michael Sands, Co-Founder/Ceo, Smile Compostables Options
• Mark Pszczolkowski, Principal R&D Scientist, The Clorox Firm 

If you cannot tune in dwell, please register and we are going to e-mail you a hyperlink to entry the webcast recording and sources, obtainable to you on-demand after the dwell webcast.